A big shout out to my lab who held it together with me being occupied by conference after conference this summer. I’m a lucky PI. Alyssa, Deeya, @JeanieTan10 Mandy, Xochitl, @NyssaKrull Julia, Natalie

Outstanding talks by @LoesgenLab @JMWinterlab @MeversLab Clevenger and Bewley labs at SIMB. A very inspiring session organized by @ParkinsonLab and Dr Gillian Bruni from USDA.

Excited to share that our latest publication - discovery of new antibiotic using novel dual sided agar plate assay (DAPA) - made the cover of @ACS_Infectious Diseases!

…and here Lisa @leesahroosalee is teaching the principles of measurement and how the student can use this skill to help precision programming.

I want to highlight the work Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab mentors have been doing. Here Ian works with a student to program a @firstlegoleague robot, which is a great training model for when they program our 200K colony picking robot! @ILINSeaGrant

Students from @BGCChi visited the lab last week and picked their bacteria to put into our competition assay. @JeanieTan10 and Dr Diandra Taylor guide them as they operate the @HudsonRobotics robot. Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab in action! @ILINSeaGrant

Congrats to @maraugustinovic (anti-malaria peptides), @SEBonitatibus (OOPS pipeline), and @ChasingMicrobes (SocialGene pipeline) for three excellent talks. UIC (current and former students) represented at ASP Younger Members Symposium yesterday!

@BGCChi Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab back in action! @JeanieTan10 and student selecting bacteria colonies to be picked by our robot this week. Work is on the club’s new interactive SmartBoard, courtesy of @ILINSeaGrant funds.

Week 6 at @BGCChi. Trying out a brilliant idea by @JeanieTan10 so that students are motivated to write their data & observations in notebooks…scrapbooking! It’s an afterschool program so they need to be tricked into doing work sometimes…@ILINSeaGrant

Week 5 of Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab. Students chose what bacteria they want to target and plated their samples from last week’s collection on nutrient media. IISG fellow @JeanieTan10 (not pictured) led the team! @ILINSeaGrant