PhD student Soraida Garcia’s article “Making the Change” was featured in the April 2022 issue of Wildlife Professional! In her article, Soraida shares her experience and provides insight on ways that graduate programs…
The research of Egor Syroegin and Yury Polikanov was published yesterday in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Syroegin, a graduate student, is the first author. Dr. Yury Polikanov, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences,…
Dr. Donald Morrison has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. The Academy, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, recognizes excellence, originality, service and leadership in…
Discover Magazine featured Rachel Poretsky and her lab in a recent article about efforts to monitor COVID-19 using municipal wastewater. Learn more about their work here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/scientists-scour-sewage-for-coronavirus-clues
This latest research paves the way for future development of a novel class of antibiotic drugs. Dr. Polikanov and his coauthors discovered how a new compound of this class, iboxamycin, binds to the…
The new Florence Merriam Bailey Award, named for the first woman “associate” of the AOU (1885) and the first woman elected as a Fellow of the AOU (1929), recognizes an outstanding article published in…
Nicholas Glass, a Ph.D. student in biological sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago, has been named a recipient of a Department of Energy, or DOE, award that provides supplemental funds for thesis…
A recent publication by Kenshu Shimada and Riley Hacker (both of DePaul University) introduces the new family Bardackichthyidae and the new genus Bardackichthys, after the late emeritus professor David Bardack. The species name…
A documentary film featuring a UIC research team’s 2019 Northwest Passage Project expedition supervised by Dr. Gonzalez-Meler through the Canadian Arctic aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden will air April 18 (1 p.m.) and…
Biological Sciences undergraduate student Alexa Tyszka has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congrats Alexa! Alexa’s research has focused on plant viruses, particularly cacti. Read more about Alexa’s research below:…
