An EYH workshop leader shows girls how to use DNA samples to identify bird pathogens.
Expanding Your Horizons Chicago hosts STEM outreach event on campus
On March 25, 2017, Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Chicago hosted a day-long conference for middle school girls on the University of Chicago campus. Close to 250 students attended the event, where they engaged in workshops related to careers...
UChicago professor hosts WTTW series Urban Nature
Have you ever wondered how coyotes survive in the city or how many species of insects are in a vacant lot?
Marcus Kronforst, PhD (Ecology and Evolution) leads viewers through the answers to these and other questions in the...
Hippo pathway activated in different places in cells, new research finds
New research published recently in Developmental Cell sheds light on the activation of the Hippo pathway in Drosophila melanogaster cells.
Postdoctoral researcher...
UChicago prof Sally Horne-Badovinac describes cell communication
Sally Horne-Badovinac, PhD (Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology) is the senior researcher on a paper published in ...
UChicago dean, faculty address changes in Washington
Dean of the Biological Sciences Division Kenneth Polonsky, MD, recently addressed the White House's executive orders on immigration and the Affordable Care Act on his blog and elsewhere.
In an...
Ecology & Evolution team reconstruct ancient genes
Ecology and Evolution graduate student Mo Siddiq and professor Joe Thornton recently...
A cluster of clostridium difficile bacteria
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The Atlantic Covers Jack Gilbert, Hospital Microbiome Project
The Atlantic magazine recently profiled the Hospital Microbiome Project, led by UChicago Biosciences professor...
In farewell address, President Obama praises Sliman Bensmaia's work
In his farewell address on Tuesday night, President Obama praised the work of Sliman Bensmaia (Associate Professor, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Committees on Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience). Bensmaia, on a...
Integrative Biology Alumna named TED2017 Fellow
Paleobiologist Lauren Sallan (PhD'12, Integrative Biology; Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania) was named a TED2017 Fellow...
Michael Coates leads discovery about chimaera fossil
Professor Michael Coates (Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Committee on Evolutionary Biology) co-authored a study published in Nature...