🌎💙 So proud of my friends Téa & Michael @UChicagoCOM for launching a fundraiser to support victims of Hurricanes Helene & Milton! Growing up on the Gulf Coast, this is close to their hearts. They’re raising $1K for @GlobalGiving—every bit helps! 🙏
https://t.co/mcmNRtzLII
The 2nd Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium & Microbiology Retreat was an amazing experience! 🎉 The @UChicago_Micro community had a great chance to learn & connect. 🦠 Keynotes from @TorresVJ_Lab and @weisssr left us all inspired and ready to push forward in our own work! 🤠🔬
Culturing more than microbes at this week’s potluck—Brazilian chocolate brigadeiro, Egyptian falafel, Bengali beef, and more, brought together by our diverse team of scientists! 😋
Wow - @PiusTonu just put together an amazing video for the qBio program we run for incoming PhD students here at UChicago. Such a pleasure to welcome another year of biology PhD students to Chicago and work with such talented TAs, co-instructors, and students. Thanks @PiusTonu!
qBio10 - the 10th annual weeklong quantitative analysis bootcamp, where incoming bioscience PhDs explore the intersection of biology & data science! 🧬💻 From coding challenges to city adventures, such an amazing TA experience��✨ Excited for their paths ahead! 🐒
🎉 Huge congratulations to our Amanda Blocker on passing her qualifying exams and officially becoming a PhD candidate! We're so excited for all the amazing anthrax research 🦠🔬 she’ll continue to do. Keep shining, Amanda! 🌟🧫
We are proud to announce that @NazikElmekki has been named a Gilliam Fellow, with Laurie Comstock as her Adviser. This recognition from @HHMINews highlights their outstanding contributions to the scientific community. Congratulations to Nazik and Laurie on this achievement! (1/3)
The Gerrick Lab at the University of Chicago (https://t.co/IZEGCuMgEn) is now hiring!
We are looking for motivated and curious postdocs, graduate students, and technicians to study commensal protists in the gut microbiome:
Please join us in welcoming our newest faculty member to the University of Chicago Department of Microbiology, Dr. Elias Roth Gerrick @GerrickElias, who will join as Assistant Professor effective September 1, 2024. (1/3)
Hot off the press, a comprehensive discussion of how Staphylococcus aureus exploits human proteins to persist as biofilm-associated infections. https://t.co/5Kzmjoklnk @Horswill_Lab