Sunset on the other side

It was an explosion of color this morning in Chicago at sunrise. #weather #news #ilwx #chicago

Happy Halloween but more importantly, congratulations to Joseph Kanabrocki for receiving the Arnold G. Wedum Distinguished Achievement Award! Today we had a lunch party in his honor.

Howard Taylor Ricketts Laboratory looks so majestic tonight 🤩

MRSA-fighting ImmunArtes receives a $1.1M grant. #PolskyWeekly10 @PolskyCenter reporter.nih.gov/search/Cfsy4Gs… Congratulations Missiakas Lab

The holiday season has us getting mighty festive 🎄 over here at HTRL 💫

Here’s to our annual cookie contest!! Happy holidays 🍪 (we also had some excellent turkey chili 😋)

Nope, it’s not Darth Vader - it’s our Derek Elli showing us his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in our Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) facility! ❗️Put on your PPE 🦠 keep yourself pathogen free❗️

Interested in a career in biodefense? We are recruiting a PhD microbiologist to drive a Bacillus anthracis research program. DM with questions. Please RT. ⁦@VI4Research⁩ vumc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/vumccare…

Rejection of your paper or grant has NO relevance to the opinion of #research community. It is nothing but the opinion of one person. Several examples: 1. The first paper on graphene was rejected from Nature because “it did not constitute a sufficient scientific advance”.

PhD is largely about leadership development. Advisors play a major role in it. Especially their management & mentorship styles. Research topics are secondary. ▫️ Below are the key points for establishing a great #research group. They will help your students excel. ▫️ 1.

Awesome collab with Aravind group, Jodi Camberg, Missiakas Lab, Vivek Anantharaman, Emily Tai, Colby Ferreira, and Amany M. ! Classical Genetics?✅ Biochemistry?✅ Computational evolution/structural biology?✅ Pathogenesis?✅

Checklists for publishing images and image analysis! Published now in Nature Methods: nature.com/articles/s4159… Clear and easy instructions for scientists to publish reproducible, understandable and accessible images and image analysis from QUAREP-LiMi Helena Jambor is gone elsewhere.

My favorite spot! ⁦Chicago Botanic Garden⁩

The colors of this butterfly 🦋 is truly amazing, lucky to have been able to get this quick shot ♥️

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Nature is amazing! Congratulations to Max Wilkinson and team on a beautiful study revealing a clever way that bacteria defend against viruses. Check out Max’s posts for more detail! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Happy to share our latest collaboration with Kumaran Ramamurthi and @felixrl_ 🎉