
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'...

Video about Ragsdale lab wins an Emmy
A video made by UC Creative's Anthony Penta about work with the California two-spot octopus in Clifton Ragsdale (Neurobiology) has won a...

UChicago CNS graduate named to Crain's Chicago 40 Under 40 2016
Maryam Saleh (PhD'11) originally thought she might go into special effects at a place like Pixar after studying computer engineering as an undergraduate at Brown University. Instead, she became interested in neuroscience on the recommendation of an advisor. She began working at a brain implant...

Professor Jack Gilbert weighs in on the "five-second rule"
According to Jack Gilbert (Faculty Director, The Microbiome Center; Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago; Senior Scientist (Adjunct), the Marine Biological Laboratory; Group Leader in Microbial Ecology,...

CEB grad student uses research to blog for Science Life
Benjamin Blanchard, a graduate student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology advised by Corrie Moreau, PhD (University of Chicago and Associate Curator, Field Museum of Natural History) studies ant defense mechanisms. A dissertation chapter of Blanchard's...