Check out this new article on IGB's website regarding our lab's efforts (Brinkworth Lab) to reduce plastic usage in experimental labs:...

I had written this anecdote in January 2019 right before the pandemic, but then removed it as I thought people might think this means...

Update: Since I wrote this post, our institute has won the Freezer challenge for the fourth time in row and the lab I am in has been...

4H Illini Summer Academy is a summer program in several disciplines at the University of Illinois which provides the high schoolers with...

Climate change is already asserting devastating effects on natural ecosystems. Many species are forced to migrate to higher elevations to...

We had an amazing activity as part of lab outreach that took us to Montessori school in Fall 2017. In this outreach event, we described...

I volunteered in the Game Day Genomics, a yearly event hosted by the Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of...

Dr. Jessica Brinkworth and I proposed and organized a symposium for the 88th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical...

These are some photos of my trip to Bashgol Protected Area in Iran. This was a beautiful protected area consisting of wheat-lands and hills.

Our institution won the 2018 International Freezer Challenge! University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked first world-wide by...