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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A big shout out to the 2025-2026 IBiS student award winners: Janet, Maggie, and Liz! Your hard work and contributions to IBiS and in teaching inspire us all! Thank you for all that you do!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our 2026 IBiS retreat was held at Lake Lawn Resort last week. Some highlights included excellent talks from the students and our alumni Amanda and Kyle, a student vs faculty family feud game, and the annual bonfire. Thanks to everyone who attended and made the retreat a success!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our IBiS class of 2026 is here and already thriving! A BIG welcome to our program and we're looking forward to getting to know you all!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congrats to Dr. Ellie Degen for receiving an IBiS Outstanding Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Dynamical models for gene regulation in early embryogenesis." We're so proud of you! Ellie is now headed to Princeton for a postdoc. We'll miss you in IBiS and we wish you all the best!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Congratulations to IBiS Preceptor Dr. Keara Lane for receiving a prestigious NSF CAREER award! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

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Promising young researchers receive NSF CAREER awards

Grants recognize individuals who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our IBiS Director is on fire! Congrats to Dr. Sadie Wignall for also being awarded a 2026 Northwestern University Teaching Award! Read more about Sadie's award here: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Congratulations to IBiS Preceptor Dr. Carole LaBonne for being named as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Read more about it here: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

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AAAS honors two Northwestern researchers as Lifetime Fellows

Carole LaBonne and Matthew Goldrick will be honored May 29 in Washington, D.C.

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Sadie Wignall, the Director of our IBiS Program, for winning the 2026 inaugural DGS Excellence Award from The Graduate School at NU! Sadie has been our steadfast leader over the last three years, and this honor is well-deserved! We are so lucky to have you as our DGS!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Pub alert! New study out with IBiS grad student Daniel Kranz as the first-author from the Klein Lab. Congratulations to Daniel and all the authors! Publication link: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Northwestern Now article link: news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2025/12/19/n...

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Happy Holidays from IBiS! We had our 2025 IBiS holiday party last Friday, where we celebrated the end of the fall quarter and start of the holiday season. Thanks to ISO for organizing such a lovely event! All the best to everyone in 2026!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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....

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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....

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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!

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Northwestern Center for Reproductive Science @nu-crs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

CRS Training Grant in Reproductive Science, Medicine and Technology is Accepting Applications! Applications are due September 22, 2025! Learn more: www.crs.northwestern.edu/education/t3... @tgsatnu.bsky.social @ibisatnu.bsky.social @dgpnorthwestern.bsky.social

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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!

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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...

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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...

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IBiS Northwestern @ibisatnu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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!

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