Nat. Geographic Explorer, UIC Prof. Our lab focuses on: 1) microbial antibiotic discovery; 2) develop novel discovery methods; community partnerships
Joined August 2016
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23 Jun 2025
Video: How the Big Beautiful Bill will degrade science, public safety, and the US economy.
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I made a video to show how NIH-university partnerships benefit society, and how Trump Administration policies have dismantled this essential pipeline.
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29 May 2025
(1) My latest commentary: “How trust in the university broke, and why academics must fight to win it back.”
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29 May 2025
(2) “DEI, in addition to nondescript brandings of “wokeness” that were trafficked in popular media for years, served as the trojan horse of this larger war. They were a mechanism that eroded public confidence in the university and paved the way for its widespread dismantling.”
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(3) “To this end, the weaponization of “wokeness”, an intellectually vague and seldomly defined critique, has been incredibly effective at garnering anti-university sentiment from allpolitical affiliations.”
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23 Dec 2024
Work from our lab by @JeanieTan10 featured in Washington Post and cover of Chicago Tribune. It highlights a partnership between our local Boys & Girls Club and UIC to engage middle school students in STEM careers via real biomedical research!
22 Dec 2024
When Camarria Williams, 13, stumbled upon goose poop in a neighborhood park, she enthusiastically scooped some up. She soon learned, with university researchers’ help, that her goose poop contained a cancer-fighting compound. wapo.st/3DmE12z
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4 Dec 2024
Congratulations!! Chicago middle school students and UIC🎉 @MurphyLabUIC Great example of community-driven science on the west side Garfield Park Lagoon❤️. interestingengineering.com/s…
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18 Nov 2024
We're looking for a new Assistant Professor in Marine Natural Products/Marine Biotechnology @Scripps_Ocean. Come join us - apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF041…
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28 Oct 2024
Latest story from our lab! I've been so fortunate to be able to integrate two passions - biomedical research and STEM outreach. Huge shoutout to the wonderful collaborators on this project including scientists, volunteers, and partners at @BGCChi.
24 Oct 2024
New work from our lab: @JeanieTan10 leads a partnership with middle school students from the Boys & Girls Club Chicago @BGCChi to discover new bioactive natural products. High-end NP discovery and outreach can coexist!
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24 Oct 2024
New work from our lab: @JeanieTan10 leads a partnership with middle school students from the Boys & Girls Club Chicago @BGCChi to discover new bioactive natural products. High-end NP discovery and outreach can coexist!
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17 Sep 2024
Our Pharm Sci Dept at UIC (Chicago) is hiring an Assistant Professor in natural product drug discovery. Expertise in bioinformatics, genetics, plant sciences, microbiology, and/or synthetic/chemical biology are welcomed! App deadline: Oct 16.
Apply here:
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22 Aug 2024
Our Pharm Sci Dept at UIC (Chicago) is hiring an Assistant Professor in natural product drug discovery. Expertise in bioinformatics, genetics, plant sciences, microbiology, and/or synthetic/chemical biology are welcomed! App deadline: Oct 16.
Apply here:
uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersi…
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8 Aug 2024
Join us to try out the online version of IDBac! If you are doing bacterial analysis with MALDI, come check it out with @NyssaKrull .
We will be hosting an interactive online workshop on August 14th at 10:00am CST (via Zoom).
Sign up here:
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7 Aug 2024
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
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7 Aug 2024
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.
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16 Jul 2024
@WritesofMurph just told a super cool story about middle schoolers doing antibiotic discovery from bacteria isolated from soil (or in one case, goose poop) @UICPharm. Nice work! 💩 🦠 #ICNPR2024
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21 Aug 2023
If you missed my talk at the recent @pharmacognosy meeting, I just posted a version on YouTube youtu.be/TBDTNq_Xb4c via @YouTube
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14 Aug 2023
Ovarian cancer is particularly hard to detect. New research from @UICPharm and @UICancerCenter used cutting-edge techniques to identify a new biomarker that offers hope for effective routine screening — possibly even at home. today.uic.edu/new-biomarker-…
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14 Aug 2023
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!
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The latest issue of #ACSInfectiousDiseases in live!
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This month's cover article from @MurphyLabUIC describes the development of DAPA, a tool used to discover new antibiotic natural products.
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4 Aug 2023
Great profile of grad student Jin Yi (Jeanie) Tan in our lab. Article describes her project of partnering with Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago to design a robotics-driven HTS antibiotic discovery program.
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