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...
MD/PhD student co-authors study on using nanowires in cells
MD/PhD student Ramya Paramesawran (Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program/Biophysical Sciences) co-authored a study about how silicon nanowires can be used to understand how diseases work. The study, published in...
Neurobiology grad student featured on SciArt magazine blog
Congratulations to Dana Simmons, graduate student in the Hansel lab, who was featured on the SciArt blog recently for her Purkinje...
Ecology & Evolution grad student flu research covered on Medical News Today
Ecology and Evolution graduate student Rahul Subramanian not only recently published in PLOS: Computational Biology ("Universal or Specific? A...
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Chicago Magazine covers Robert Grossman, Genomic Data Commons
The January 2017 issue of Chicago magazine (available online now) has a lengthy feature by Tom Chiarella about the Genomic Data Commons and the GDC'...