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…
Originally posted on UIC Today: Members of the UIC community can help create a “Hormoz Forest” in the Chicago metropolitan area by picking up a free tree to plant in memory of biological…
Kevin Drew will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences as Assistant Professor, Computational Biology, in Winter 2021. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the New York University School of Medicine…
CNN.com released a story on Sept. 22 about Valentina Gómez-Bahamón’s study of the fork-tailed flycatcher. Gómez-Bahamón found that males of the species make a vibrating sound with their feathers when they fight, and…
The UIC Departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences welcome Dr. Ruixuan (“Rui”) Gao to join as an Assistant Professor starting in 2021! Dr. Gao studies how basic molecular building blocks—such as proteins, lipids,…
Joseph Walker will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences as Assistant Professor, Computational Biology, in Fall 2021. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan and…
Congratulations to Associate Professor 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 will develop surveillance methods in the Chicago…
Jarrad Hampton-Marcell is a member of the inaugural cohort to the Bridge-to-Faculty (B2F) program scholars at UIC. B2F is a new faculty recruitment program designed to attract underrepresented postdoctoral scholars with the goal…
This summer, after fifteen years at UIC, Dr. Brian Kay retired and became Emeritus Professor. As head of the department from 2005-2014, the hallmarks of Dr. Kay’s leadership included budgetary balance, increased mentorship,…
