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Our recent paper in PLOS Genetics was featured on their virtual "cover"! Beautiful work from •emily•, Yuntong Zou, and Nikita Divekar on acentrosomal spindle assembly in oocytes! @ibisatnu Northwestern MolBioSci plos.org/wp-content/upl…

Congrats to recent IBiS graduate Emily Czajkowski, current IBiS student Yuntong Zou, former IBiS student Nikita Divekar, and Professor Sadie Wignall for their publication in PLoS Genetics! And it made the cover! :) Read more about it here: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Congrats to the 2024 IBiS Halloween Party costume contest winners: The Bao Lab as Mario Party and Genevieve Nemeth as Elizabeth Warren!

Congrats to the amazing Dr. Reese Richardson from the Amaral Lab for receiving an Outstanding Dissertation Award on his thesis entitled "Metascientific studies in reproducibility, bias and fraud." Way to go!

The IBiS PhD program is at ABRCMS 2024 at the Northwestern Booths (1631, 1728, and 1730) this morning as well! Stop by and say hello to Gene the IBiS!

Last Thursday, IBiS students were able to attend a seminar from and each lunch with Dr. Charles M. Rice, Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. How inspiring!

IBiS and MBS had a sweet Valentine’s Day Happy Hour last Friday to spread the love! Featuring bouquet making and candy grams (with all proceeds going to charity), chocolate tasting, and a pink sparkly drink, all had a good time. Thanks to Olivia and Katy for putting it together!

Congrats to first-author Tiffany Ge and the Brickner Lab for their pub in Molecular Cell! The paper describes a second function for Exportin-1 in serving as an adaptor for transcription factor-mediated tethering of genes to the nuclear pore complex. doi.org/10.1016/j.molc…

Congratulations to IBiS preceptor Julius B. Lucks for being named as a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! What an amazing accomplishment! Read more about it here: mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/… Lucks Lab: luckslab.org

The Pinkett Lab recently published a review article: "Structurally diverse C-terminal accessory domains in type I ABC importers reveal distinct regulatory mechanisms." Check it out! cell.com/structure/abst…

Congrats to Cale Severude and Elizabeth Lopez for receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mentions (in a ridiculously competitive year). Great job, we’re proud of you!

Research is for everyone. Grateful to WBEZ to talk about why research is important and why stopping hurts people and our leadership as the #1 country for innovation. wbez.org/reset-with-sas…

In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze, President Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris announced today. ▶️ spr.ly/60152zZAv

It has been a busy time for IBiS! With the Lane-Petersen Happy Hour on the 11th, a CV/Resume workshop from Dr. Aubrey Korenta of the Career Center last Tuesday, and DRiLS Speaker Dr. Markita Landry visiting us last Thursday, we’ve had lots of learning and community building!

A big congratulations to our amazing Eduardo Campos Chávez (Mondragón Lab), who was awarded the 2025 Presidential Fellowship from Northwestern’s Graduate School. This is the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University, and is a huge honor!

Congrats to our newly minted Dr. Frank Tucci on being named as a 2025 Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Young Investigator! We're so impressed! Read more about Frank and the other winners here: divbiolchem.org/news/47zplso71…

With graduation happening this week, we’re highlighting our thirteen 2024-2025 graduates from the IBiS Ph.D. program! We’re so proud of what you’ve accomplished at NU and we’re sad to say goodbye, but we look forward to seeing how you’ll change the world!

Our amazing alum Dr. Luyi Cheng visited IBiS to give a seminar about potential careers in science policy, followed by a Lunch and Learn event where grad students asked in-depth questions about Luyi’s career path and job knowledge. A lovely time was had by all! Thank you, Luyi!