Departmental Highlights
Publications
Presentations
| Date | Presenter | Event | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 18-19, 2019 | Chih-Wei Chen | RNA Cornbelt | High-resolution crystal structures of ribosome-bound antibiotics provide theultimate basis for the competition of PTC inhibitors with macrolides |  |
| September 25, 2019 | Adit Chaudhary | WEFTEC | Taxon-Driven Functional Shifts Associated With Storm Flow in an Urban Stream Microbial Community |  |
| January 25, 2019 | Chris Whelan | EcoFarm Conference - Ecological Farming Association, Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California | Why birds matter in agricultural landscapes | |
| January 6-10, 2019 | Chih-Wei Chen | Ribosome Structure and Function | High-resolution crystal structures of ribosome-bound antibiotics provide theultimate basis for the competition of PTC inhibitors with macrolides | |
| December 8-12, 2018 | Bethanie-Michelle Statler | ASCB-EMBO conference, San Diego | Redistribution of the yeast pheromone receptor during gradient sensing requires the RGS protein Sst2 |  |
| November 10, 2018 | Chih-Yu Pai | Midwest Yeast Meeting, Northwestern University | The yeast claudin Dcv1 contributes to the polarization of mating functions |  |
| November 10, 2018 | Bryan Banh | Midwest Yeast Meeting, Northwestern University | Pheromone gradient sensing depends on Far1 recruitment of Gßϒ to the default polarity site in Yeast |  |
| November 10, 2018 | Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu | Midwest Yeast Meeting, Northwestern University | The trafficking and tracking of Gßϒ during the pheromone response in budding yeast |  |
| November 10, 2018 | Bethanie-Michelle Statler | Midwest Yeast Meeting, Northwestern University | Redistribution of the yeast pheromone receptor during gradient sensing requires the RGS protein Sst2 |  |
| October 27, 2018 | Christopher Whelan, PhD | Invited speaker-Prostate Cancer Foundation's 25th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat | Resistance is Not Inevitable – Lessons from Pest Management Christopher Whelan, PhD The Moffitt Cancer Center; University of Illinois at Chicago |  |
| August 22-26, 2018 | Xin Wang | Yeast Genetics Meeting, Stanford Unviersity, California | Mating yeast cells become competent to sense pheromone gradients by assembling signaling and trafficking proteins at the default polarity site |  |
| August 22-26, 2018 | Chih-Yu Pai | Yeast Genetics Meeting, Stanford Unviersity, California | The yeast claudin Dcv1 contributes to the polarization of mating functions |  |
| August 21-22, 2018 | Michael Ricketts | Invited Speaker- Microbiome Soil Sensors Workshop in La Jolla, CA | Challenges in microbial community analysis specific to Arctic soils |  |
| July 14, 2018 | Todd Widhelm | American Bryological and Lichenological Society’s annual conference, Rocky Mountain Field Station | Assessing evolutionary relationships in Lobariaceae using target capture |  |
| Dec 2019 | Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu | Dec 2019 ASCB Meeting. Washington DC | ‘A Biosensor Reveals the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Phosphorylated Gβ in Yeast Cells Decoding Pheromone Gradients’. | |
| 2019 | Adit Chaudhary | ASM Microbe 2019 | Bacterioplankton response to allochthonous dissolved organic carbon across a coastal to offshore transect in Lake Michigan | |
| 2019 | Chih-Wei Chen | RNA CornBelt regional RNA meeting | High-resolution crystal structures of ribosome-bound antibiotics provide the ultimate basis for the competition of PTC inhibitors with macrolides | |
| 2020 | Valentina Gomez | Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting. 2020 | Bio-inspiration of silent flight of owls and other flying animals: recent advances and unanswered questions | |
| 2020 | Zhongjiao Jiang | 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society | SphK1 Regulates Exocytosis via Modulation of Properties of the Readily Releasable Pool in Neurons | |
| Jan. 2020 | Margaret Malone | Gordon Research Conference - Predator-Prey Interactions | The Ecology of Fear and Inverted Biomass Pyramids |
Awards
| Chih-Wei Chen | Graduate Research | Fall 2019 | |
 | Katie Fowler | Provost's Graduate Research Award | Fall 2019 |
 | Jocelyn Garcia | First Prize for Undergraduate Research In Quantitative Biology- NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology Conference | November 17, 2018. |
| Bethanie-Michelle Statler | Minorities Affairs Committee Travel Award, honorable mention at The Predoctoral Ford Foundation Fellowship | 2018 |
| Todd Widhelm | UIC Travel Award | 2018 |
 | Elsa Anderson | Fulbright Student Research Fellowship | 2018 |
 | Yuliana Rowe | Graduate Teaching Award | Fall 2017 |
| Rashida Abdul | American Society for Cell Biology Meeting Travel Award, Second place winner of the 2019 American Society for Cell Biology\nMeeting Elevator Speech Contest | 2019 | |
| Luis Beltran | Rufford Small Grant, Elmer Hadley Research Award | 2019 | |
| Valentina Gomez | Armour Graduate Fellowship, Broadening Participation Student Travel Award, Student Travel Award, Grainger Bioinformatics Center Grant, Provost’s Graduate Research Award | 2019 |
Service and Outreach
| 2018 | Adit Chaudhary and Dr. Rachel Poretsky | Lake Michigan Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative workshop to help plan the next Lake Michigan field year |   | |
| 2018 | Xin Wang | Discovery Squad - Field Museum | | |
| 2018 | Bethanie-Michelle Statler | Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium, Louis Stokes Midwest Center of Excellence Conference, LSAMP, Expanding Your Horizons Chicago, ACT-SO, Graduate Student Council | | |
| 2018 | Chih-Yu Pai | Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) - Chicago chapter | | |
| 2019 | Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu | Biological Sciences Graduate Student Council Representative, 2019 -\n2020; Mentor/Science Expert for the Junior Academy Program of the NYAS; Secretary for the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) - Chicago Chapter | ||
| 2020 | Arjun Balyan | Graduate Student Council Representative, 2016 - 2020; BIOS survey committee to build a shared departmental vision and 5-\nyear plan | ||
| 2020 | Valentina Gomez | Latin American committee member for the North American\nOrnithology Conference in Puerto Rico | ||
| 2019 | Seema Sheoran | President, Graduate Women in Science - Chicago Chapter (2017-2019) |
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Check out one of our graduate students’, Sheryl Hosler, youtube channel here!