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Science in bloom: A day at the Chicago Botanic Garden with our lab team 🌺🌿🌻@chicagobotanic

🦠➗OUT NOW - PcdA promotes division plane selection in #Staph by @RamamurthiLab @felixrl_ @braf_phd @ProteinVerse @Amany_MI @MissiakasLab @cytomotive @jivarahasya @NCIResearchCtr nature.com/articles/s4156…

🌎💙 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! 🙏 globalgiving.org/fundraisers/hu…

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! 🐒

"Grillin' and Chillin' with the lab crew at HTRL! 🔬🔥 Science by day & BBQ all the way - experiments meet epic eats!"

🎉 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! 🌟🧫

@NTomatsidou YESS! 👊🏼

@MissiakasLab Oh! I am so glad Tonu is back and we get to enjoy those great videos again!

Summer badminton fun with the lab! ☀️🏸

Group photo! 📸

Science in bloom: A day at the Chicago Botanic Garden with our lab team 🌺🌿🌻@chicagobotanic

@SBrinsmade @chicagobotanic @Amany_MI @HayGula @biswarup40 @tancope @JoshuaLensmire @PiusTonu We can only wish! 😅

@MissiakasLab @chicagobotanic @Amany_MI @HayGula @biswarup40 @tancope @JoshuaLensmire @PiusTonu Looks like fun! Can I join? 😉

My favorite spot! ⁦@chicagobotanic⁩

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)

Lab trip to Lake Geneva 🌊🚤 Such an incredible summer adventure! ☀️

The Gerrick Lab at the University of Chicago (voices.uchicago.edu/gerricklab/) is now hiring! We are looking for motivated and curious postdocs, graduate students, and technicians to study commensal protists in the gut microbiome:

Great to see everyone at the @MissiakasLab /Schneewind lab reunion #ASM2024 #ASMMicrobe2024

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. academic.oup.com/femsre/article… @Horswill_Lab