Rachel Poretsky, PhD

– Associate Professor –

Rachel hails from the great urban microbial hotspot of Brooklyn, NY. She obtained a BS in Biology from Brandeis University in 1999 and a PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2008. She was a postdoc at Caltech in Geology and Planetary Sciences and at Georgia Tech in Environmental Engineering. She has done pioneering work using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of microbial communities. Since January 2013 she has been an Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Classes taught: Bios 450: Advanced Microbiology; Bios 594: Environmental Microbial Genomics; Bios 531: Introduction to Ecology and Evolution I;CS 111 Green AKA CS/BIOS 112: Introduction to Programming for Biology

Rachel’s CV.

Erik Andersson

– PhD Student –

Christopher Owen

– PhD Student –

Sarah Turner

– PhD Student –

Jarrad Hampton-Marcell

– Bridge to the Faculty Postdoc –

Jamal Sheriff

– PhD Student –

Leah Kelly

– MS Student –

Alex Soltys

– PostBac Fellow –

-Our current, fabulous undergraduate researchers-

Eva Durance

Prisila Alvarez (L@S GANAS)