Integrated Life Sciences at University of Georgia

Applications for consideration for our Fall 2021 cohort are due Dec. 4, 2020. A complete application consists of an official UGA Grad School application and an ILS Background & Interest form. Read more about how to apply here: ils.uga.edu/admissions/how…

ILS would like to say an additional congratulations to faculty member Dr. Luke Mortensen, another of 23 early-career scientists to win funding as part of the inaugural year of the Scialog: Advancing BioImaging initiative rescorp.org/news/2021/08/o…

ILS faculty member Dr. Shannon Quinn is one of 23 early-career scientists to win funding for research to accelerate development of the next generation of imaging technologies, as part of the inaugural year of the Scialog: Advancing BioImaging initiative rescorp.org/news/2021/08/o…

ILS matriculant & Ph.D. candidate Ale Villegas and ILS faculty Dr. Vasant Muralidharan receive Gilliam Graduate Fellowship "to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science" grad.uga.edu/index.php/phd-…

ILS faculty Dr. David Peterson and Dr. Liliana Salvador host new podcast "People, Parasites, and Plagues" showcasing expertise of UGA's Infectious Diseases faculty research.uga.edu/news/new-podca…

"(UGA) has returned to the top of AUTM’s national rankings for the number of products developed by industry partners ... marking the seventh straight year UGA has placed among the top five schools in the country for this metric." Story here: research.uga.edu/news/uga-recla…

ILS is proud to learn that matriculants Felicia Ebot-Ojong (Lewis lab) and Meghan Brady (Dawe lab) have been awarded NSF GRP Fellowships! Congratulations!

The Mousa lab has published a paper on anti-pneumococcal human mAbs. The paper describes antibodies that bind to multiple pneumococcal serotypes and that can prevent and treat disease. ILS matriculant Jiachen Huang is first author iai.asm.org/content/early/…

Congratulations to ILS matriculants Sohyun Bang and Michael Francis for placing second in the @ugalibs Capturing Science Contest! The pair "take the code of living things and re-codify it as musical notation. That is, they turn a DNA sequence into a song." guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscien…

In addition to the two papers first-authored by ILS matriculants Anna Nichenko and Ivette Nuñez, ILS-affiliated faculty labs have recently published another 17 papers! 😄🎉 Check us out on Facebook for links to access their work: facebook.com/ILSUniversityo…

ILS matriculant Ivette Nuñez was first author of the recently published "Human COBRA 2 vaccine contains two major epitopes that are responsible for eliciting neutralizing antibody responses against heterologous clades of viruses": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31733946

ILS matriculant Anna Nichenko was first author of the recently published "Mitochondrial-specific autophagy linked to mitochondrial dysfunction following traumatic freeze injury in mice": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31721614

Of the papers published in ILS-affiliated labs during the first week of November, ILS matriculant Sergio Minchey was first author of "Developmental Evolution: Downsizing Wings in the Flightless Emu" from Dr. Menke's lab: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31689398

Terrific training program !!

New paper from ILS faculty member Dr. Bill Lanzilotta: "New Insight into the Mechanism of Anaerobic Heme Degradation." Access it here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31652058

New paper from ILS faculty member Dr. Liang Liu: "The effect of alignment uncertainty, substitution models and priors in building and dating the mammal tree of life." Access it here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31694538

New paper from ILS faculty member Dr. Stacey L. Lance: "Isolation and characterization of 13 microsatellite loci for the Neotropical otter, Lontra longicaudis, by next generation sequencing." Access it here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31696429

New paper from ILS faculty member Dr. Doug Menke: "Developmental Evolution: Downsizing Wings in the Flightless Emu." Access it here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31689398

New paper from ILS faculty member Dr. Jorge Escalante-Semerena: "New AMP-forming acid:CoA ligases from Streptomyces lividans, some of which are posttranslationally regulated by reversible lysine acetylation." Access it here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31677300

Applications for consideration for our Fall 2020 cohort are due Dec. 2, 2019. A complete application consists of an official UGA Grad School application and an ILS Background & Interest form. Read more about how to apply here: ils.uga.edu/admissions/how…