The journal Nature Chemical Biology published “Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance,” featuring the joint research of Drs. Yury Polikanov, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, and Alexander Mankin,…
The findings of the new UIC study “Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance” were published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. Read more about this project on UIC…
E&E PhD candidate Mila Kellen Marshall is featured in Crains Forum: How Lake Michigan’s greatest challenges hurt the most vulnerable Mila is a Graduate Assistant at the UIC Freshwater Lab. She focuses her…
Allie Kemph is a first year graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences. She shares her academic journey with us. Q. What is your background in the biological sciences? A. I went…
For the 4th time, Lecturer Mike Muller has received the Teaching Recognition Program award. Congratulations Mike! Mike previously received TPR awards in 2016, 2011, and 2006. The Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) is UIC’s…
The Graduate College recognizes PhD student Egor Syroegin for his research into ribosome-targeting antibiotics. The Provost’s Graduate Research Award supports multidisciplinary scholarship and provides a way for students early in their studies to…
The Graduate College recognized PhD student Zahra Batool with a 2020 Award for Graduate Research for her exceptional research into sarecycline, a ribosome-targeting antibiotic of the tetracycline-class that was recently FDA-approved for the…
Rachel Poretsky, who is lead PI on a Discovery Partners Institute’s (DPI) 2020 research seed grant: Wastewater-based epidemiology to track SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. This team is developing surveillance methods in the Chicago area…
Dr. Yury Polikanov is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is jointly affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the…
Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Biological Sciences MCBD program, where she also works as a teaching assistant. Her research focuses on understanding how phosphorylation affects the function and trafficking of…
