A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers. Lariocidin,…
Thom Park and Rochelle Buffenstein were interviewed in the March 13th issue of Journal of Experimental Biology! You can read about their work with naked mole rats here.
Sage Delong, a grad student in Escalante Meza lab, has been awarded a Student Research Grant by the Animal Behavior Society. This grant will support Sage’s research project titled “The internal and external…
Are you interested in research? Would you like to get more research experience after you graduate? The Department of Biological Sciences at UIC is calling for applications to its PostBac TA Fellowship Program.…
Kevin Boergens was featured in UIC Today about using super-fast microscopes to map entire mouse brain. Dr. Boergens is expected to start a tenured track appointment shared between BIOS and PHYS in the…
Ignacio Escalante Meza’s UIC’s Behavioral Ecology & Biomechanics lab recently conducted research on daddy long-leg spiders, a species of Opiliones. While much research exists on larger animals like birds and mammals, there is…
Madhura Paranjpe of Polikanov lab and former student Zahra Batool were first authors of a paper recently published in Structure, titled “Berberine analog of chloramphenicol exhibits a distinct mode of action and unveils…
BIOS professor Yury Polikanov and his lab researcher Elena V. Aleksandrova collaborated with Center for Biomolecular Sciences researchers to test a new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets which would…
The second annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition was held in the SELE Oasis on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. There were 35 entries from 21 labs. It was a great display…
As advertised by the UIC Center for Advancement of Teaching Excellence in this article: Jasmine Hopkins, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences will present on the Use of templates and guides to…
