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…
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…
