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Faculty work with students to conduct research across disciplines, including biochemistry, biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology, pharmacology and computational biology.
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The Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary PhD program that trains students in biomedical sciences while giving them the flexibility to pursue a variety of research interests, dual degrees and specialized tracks.
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Simon-Kucher and Partners Happy Hour
October 16
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Book Margot Shetterly Keynote: Chicago Campus
October 17
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar --Drosophila to Model Nucleo...
October 17
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
One Book Margot Shetterly Keynote: Evanston Campus
October 17
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Student Publications
Dynamic enhancers control skeletal muscle identity and reprogramming.
Ramachandran K, Senagolage MD, Sommars MA, Futtner CR, Omura Y, Allred AL, Barish GD.
PLoS Biol. 2019 Oct 7;17(10):e3000467. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000467. [Epub ahead of print]
Pincus NB, Bachta KER, Ozer EA, Allen JP, Pura ON, Qi C, Rhodes NJ, Marty FM, Pandit A, Mekalanos JJ, Oliver A, …
Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 4. pii: ciz973. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz973. [Epub ahead of print]
Acute Megakaryocytic Leukemia.
McNulty M, Crispino JD.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2019 Sep 23. pii: a034884. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a034884. [Epub ahead of print]
Rutz AL, Gargus ES, Hyland KE, Lewis PL, Setty A, Burghardt WR, Shah RN.
Acta Biomater. 2019 Sep 17. pii: S1742-7061(19)30619-1. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.09.007. [Epub ahead of print]
Spinal cord injury results in chronic mechanical stiffening.
Cooper JG, Sicard D, Sharma S, Van Gulden S, McGuire TL, Cajiao MP, Tschumperlin DJ, Kessler J.
J Neurotrauma. 2019 Sep 13. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6540. [Epub ahead of print]
Okeigwe I, Bulun S, Liu S, Rademaker AW, Coon V JS, Kujawa S, Robins J, Yin P.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Jul 23. pii: jc.2019-00762. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00762. [Epub ahead of print]
Activating newborn neurons suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors.
Tunc-Ozcan E, Peng CY, Zhu Y, Dunlop SR, Contractor A, Kessler JA.
Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 21;10(1):3768. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11641-8.
Piunti A, Smith ER, Morgan MAJ, Ugarenko M, Khaltyan N, Helmin KA, Ryan CA, Murray DC, Rickels RA, Yilmaz BD, …
Sci Adv. 2019 Jul 3;5(7):eaax2887. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2887. eCollection 2019 Jul.
Nas MY, White RC, DuMont AL, Lopez AE, Cianciotto NP.
Infect Immun. 2019 Aug 21;87(9). pii: e00457-19. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00457-19. Print 2019 Sep.
Bui TM, Sumagin R.
DNA Cell Biol. 2019 Aug;38(8):747-753. doi: 10.1089/dna.2019.4842. Epub 2019 Jun 12. Review.