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,…
Dr. Paul Malchow is retiring! “… I come to work smiling every morning because I knowI’ll be teaching, researching and working with really cool students. I realize that not everyone has that experience…
This August, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published Zahra Batool’s research paper, Sarecycline interferes with tRNA accommodation and tethers mRNA to the 70S ribosome. Zahra,…
The grant is to explore the developmental genetic and physiological mechanisms that explain why males and females respond differently to environmental change, using fruit flies as a model organism.
