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!

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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!

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: epigeneticsandchromatin.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congratulations to our stellar graduate student Feihong Xu (Amaral Lab) for winning the 2025 IBiS Rappaport Award for Research Excellence!

We're celebrating our three exceptional 2024-25 IBiS Student Award Winners:

Gloria Alvarado, winner of the Excellence in Leadership and Engagement Award

Gracie Siffer, winner of the Neil Welker Lab TA Award

Yilin Feng, winner of the Neena Schwartz Lecture TA Award

Congrats on your success!

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 awesome alumni retreat talks! A great start to the new academic year!

This week, we welcomed our IBiS class of 2025 to campus! Hooray!

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. :)

Our amazing alum Dr. Luyi Cheng visited IBiS to give a BioProfessionals seminar about potential careers in science policy, followed by a Lunch and Learn event where grad students got to ask in-depth questions about Luyi’s career path and job knowledge. A lovely time was had by all! Thank you, Luyi!

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!

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 at NU, and is a huge honor! We are so proud of you!

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, fun, and community building!

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!

The Pinkett Lab recently published a review article: "Structurally diverse C-terminal accessory domains in type I ABC importers reveal distinct regulatory mechanisms." Two of our IBiS students: Alexandra Karagiaridi and Lydia Kenney were co-authors on the paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.st...

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: www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...

The Lucks Lab:
luckslab.org

Congrats to 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. The paper is now online: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

IBiS and MBS had a sweet Valentine’s Day Happy Hour Friday to spread the love! Featuring bouquet making and candy grams (with all proceeds going to charity), chocolate tasting, and a pink sparkly drink, a good time was had by all. Thanks to grads Olivia and Katy for putting everything together!