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Remembering Carl Woese through the Undergraduate Research Scholar Program

Ananya Sen

Every summer, the Carl R. Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar Program helps students conduct research on a full-time basis over the summer.

Joseph Fernandez

Ananya Sen

Joseph Fernandez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Genomics and Eco-evolution of Multi-Scale Symbioses Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana

Donor Spotlight: Aarush M. Patel Foundation

Shelby Lawson

In 2018, Mitul Patel and his wife, Aditi Patel, got married and were looking to start a family when they first experienced issues with infertility.

Ratna Karatgi

Shelby Lawson

Investigating mechanisms behind variation in color of killifish

Lisa Surber

Shelby Lawson

Studying behavioral and morphological responses to environmental cues in poison frogs

Kathure Mugambi

Ananya Sen

Kathure Mugambi is a senior undergraduate student in Molecular and Cellular Biology. She is also the undergraduate assistant for the IGB Lunchbox series.

Bioethicist Françoise Baylis to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics


Françoise Baylis, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Dalhousie University, will speak as part of the IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics series at 4:00 p.

Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Jason Wang

Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson

Jason Wang, a graduate student in the Kong (GNDP/M-CELS) lab, won third place in the 2022 Young Innovator program and received $5000 to advance his proposal.

Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Skye Shepard

Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson

Skye Shepherd is a graduate student in the Cunningham (CGD/MMG) group, where she develops new detection tools for proteins that can be used to identify diseases including cancer

Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Alejandra Zeballos

Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson

Alejandra Zeballos works on creating new therapies for neurological disorders.

Kathy Millage

Ananya Sen

Kathy Millage is an Office Administrator at the IGB.

Erik Nelson: A milestone in my career

Christine des Garennes

Several days following the Federal Drug Administration’s approval of a new cancer drug, Erik Nelson (A