East Meets West: How microbes affect athletic ability
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June 15, 2018
We were featured in the UIC News this week! ...
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ASM Microbe 2018 and congratulations to Adit
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June 15, 2018
The Poretsky lab was well-represented at ASM's Microbe 2018 in Atlanta, where Adit took home an award for an outstanding abstract. ...
Read MoreCongratulations, Adit and farewell, Binh!
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May 22, 2017
Each spring, Biological Sciences holds a competition for Elmer Hadley Graduate Research Awards in support of graduate student research in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Dr. Elmer Hadley was a prominent ecologist, former Department Head of Biological Sciences, and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Research awards may be used to cover travel expenses, materials used in lab or field research, outsourced lab work, hourly wages for personnel and other direct costs. Grants are awarded for proposed projects that best demonstrate contributions to dissertation research...
Read MoreSpring 2017 wrap-up
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May 11, 2017
This academic year is over and we've been busy in the Poretsky lab. Some highlights for 2016-2017: Melissa and Emily spent some time in WA at the NOAA Fisheries lab in March Rachel Macam presented her work (with Jarrad on the microbiomes of members of the UIC swim team as they train and compete) at the UIC Undergraduate Research Forum in April. Adit was awarded a Hadley Grant to continue his work on DOM dynamics in Lake Michigan Dr. Poretsky was nominated for a "Rising Star in Basic Life Sciences"...
Read MoreEast Meets West: Why are athletes strong and fast?
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July 25, 2016
What role does gut bacteria play in making athletes strong and fast? UIC doctoral student Jarrad Hampton-Marcell will use a $100,000 citizen-science grant from uBiome, a microbial genomics company, to examine that question. Hampton-Marcell was selected for the grant by a public vote during the uBiome Microbiome Research Grant Competition....
Read MoreApril News
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April 22, 2016
Dr. Poretsky traveled to the Manchester Research Station in Seattle, WA in March to help kick off the first microbial set of experiments for our NOAA-funded aquaculture project. Graduating senior Mark Ciesielski presented his research at the UIC Research Forum on April 12, 2016. His poster was entitled: “UV Disinfection Impacts on Microbial Tetracycline Resistance and Functional Gene Expression." Congratulations to Mark, too, for being invited to join Phi Beta Kappa and for being nominated for an undergraduate Elmer Hadley Award! This award is given to a student with high academic...
Read MoreHonors College Capstone Research
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December 1, 2015
Hillary Pham and Jennifer Arista presented posters of their Honors College Capstone research at the UIC Undergraduate Research Forum. Hillary and Jennifer were beneficiaries of an Honors College Faculty Fellow Small Grant awarded to Dr. Poretsky in June 2015 to investigate microbial diversity in the Chicago River....
Read MoreAnnual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
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November 1, 2015
Dorothy Wright presented her poster, “Resistance Uprising: Antibiotic Genes in Lake Michigan” at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Dorothy is a Bridges 2 Baccalaureate (http://bridges2bacc.uic.edu/) student working on the Lake Michigan project with Dr. Chu....
Read MoreCBC Postdoctoral Research Grant!
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October 1, 2015
Dr. Binh Chu received a CBC Postdoctoral Research Grant to characterize and quantify antibiotic resistance genes in Lake Michigan. Binh Chu's project is "Digital PCR to assess the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in Lake Michigan."...
Read MoreAmerican Society for Microbiology General Meeting
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June 15, 2015
Imrose Kauser presented her research “The Influence of Wastewater Effluent on Microbial Communities in an Urbanized River System” at the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting....
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