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IBiS is the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences PhD program at Northwestern.
Evanston, IL
Joined October 2017
A big shout-out to IBiS grad student Tim Kim (Mirkin Lab) who was named a 2025 Ryan Fellow! He also has a co-first author paper now out in JACS. Cheers to both achievements! https://t.co/9F9MuBZWKY
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Tisha Dash, one of our new IBiS students, was named a 2025 Quad Fellow from the Institute of International Education! Congratulations on this big honor!
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Dr. Omar Payán Parra, an IBiS student who graduated last Spring from the Yang Lab, just published a first-author paper in Epigenetics and Chromatin. Congrats! See the full version here: https://t.co/EdaVrfaTCr
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Congratulations to our stellar graduate student Feihong Xu (Amaral Lab) for winning the 2025 IBiS Rappaport Award for Research Excellence!
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Congrats to our three exceptional 2024-25 IBiS Student Award Winners: Gloria Alvarado, winner of the Excellence in Leadership and Engagement Award (ELEA) Gracie Siffer, winner of the Neil Welker Lab TA Award Yilin Feng, winner of the Neena Schwartz Lecture TA Award Way to go!
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We held our 2025 IBiS Retreat at Lake Lawn Resort last week for 2 days of science discussion, knowledge exchange, and fun! Thank you to everyone who organized, participated, and presented, and especially to Heidi and Carlo for amazing alumni retreat talks! A great kickoff to FY26
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This week, we welcomed our IBiS class of 2025 to campus! Hooray!
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We were lucky--the rain held off at the fabulous IBiS/Wignall Lab Margarita Party on Friday last week! A new featured event this year: an ISO-sponsored musical chairs contest. :)
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Our amazing alum Dr. Luyi Cheng visited IBiS to give a seminar about potential careers in science policy, followed by a Lunch and Learn event where grad students asked in-depth questions about Luyi’s career path and job knowledge. A lovely time was had by all! Thank you, Luyi!
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With graduation happening this week, we’re highlighting our thirteen 2024-2025 graduates from the IBiS Ph.D. program! We’re so proud of what you’ve accomplished at NU and we’re sad to say goodbye, but we look forward to seeing how you’ll change the world!
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Congrats to our newly minted Dr. Frank Tucci on being named as a 2025 Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Young Investigator! We're so impressed! Read more about Frank and the other winners here: https://t.co/SgHQAfhAU7
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A big congratulations to our amazing Eduardo Campos Chávez (Mondragón Lab), who was awarded the 2025 Presidential Fellowship from Northwestern’s Graduate School. This is the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University, and is a huge honor!
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It has been a busy time for IBiS! With the Lane-Petersen Happy Hour on the 11th, a CV/Resume workshop from Dr. Aubrey Korenta of the Career Center last Tuesday, and DRiLS Speaker Dr. Markita Landry visiting us last Thursday, we’ve had lots of learning and community building!
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Research is for everyone. Grateful to @WBEZ to talk about why research is important and why stopping hurts people and our leadership as the #1 country for innovation. https://t.co/zPFoIdRCfX
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Northwestern researchers received notices from the Department of Defense to stop their work immediately.
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In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze, President Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris announced today. ▶️ https://t.co/MMHkb4b5Bp
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Congrats to Cale Severude and Elizabeth Lopez for receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mentions (in a ridiculously competitive year). Great job, we’re proud of you!
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The Pinkett Lab recently published a review article: "Structurally diverse C-terminal accessory domains in type I ABC importers reveal distinct regulatory mechanisms." Check it out! https://t.co/eQ5UuH4qxH
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Congratulations to IBiS preceptor Julius B. Lucks for being named as a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! What an amazing accomplishment! Read more about it here: https://t.co/HsU0QMpwWt Lucks Lab: https://t.co/w3OiZE8VFI
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Congrats to first-author Tiffany Ge and the Brickner Lab for their pub in Molecular Cell! The paper describes a second function for Exportin-1 in serving as an adaptor for transcription factor-mediated tethering of genes to the nuclear pore complex. https://t.co/g7rHPzDC8M
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IBiS and MBS had a sweet Valentine’s Day Happy Hour last Friday to spread the love! Featuring bouquet making and candy grams (with all proceeds going to charity), chocolate tasting, and a pink sparkly drink, all had a good time. Thanks to Olivia and Katy for putting it together!
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