Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) at UGA

Welcome to the Incoming Fall '20 ILS Class...we are excited you are beginning your journey to becoming an independent scientist with us at UGA!

Good Advice for our incoming ILS cohort this week!!! Ph.D. trainee Emma Troth's advice to new graduate students: "Never be afraid to reach out for help, wherever you need it!"

ILS is hosting an Invitation to be Heard call via Zoom on Thursday, June 18, 2020, at 1 p.m. EST. There is no set agenda for this meeting but there is a clear goal: Primarily, we wish to hear from you and learn from you regarding graduate students’ perspectives on inequalities facing minority communities and how the Integrated Life Sciences program and the Graduate School at UGA can help and do better. The faculty and administration are calling this meeting not to talk, but to listen, and all life science graduate students are invited to attend. If you did not receive a link to the Zoom room via email, please email [email protected] and it will be sent to you for your participation.

The Integrated Life Sciences program at the University of Georgia strongly agrees with and proudly supports the tenets recently expressed by Vice-Provost Dr. Michelle Cook, Graduate School Dean Dr. Ron Walcott, and UGA President Morehead regarding race, justice, and equality. Our statements are available on our Program Statements page: https://ils.uga.edu/student-life/program-statements/

UGA Researchers tackling COVID19

Multiple UGA Investigators (most of who are ILS faculty) Fighting the Good Fight (Hogan, Crich, Pegan, Tripp, Ross, Phillips, He, Tompkins, Strauch, Mead, Woods, Esseili, Edison, Leach, Brindley, Meagher, Perez, Rajao, Wells, Moremen, Tiemeyer, Lafontaine, Blum, Lewis, Lanzilotta, Chu, Singh, Boons, Shepherd)

Genetics department head and former ILS director Dr. Nancy Manley was featured in UGA's Great Commitments campaign for her work on the thymus, which produces th...e body’s T cells. As "one of only a handful of labs in the world focusing on the thymus," Dr. Manley and her team work with a goal of determining "how T cells develop and what happens to make their numbers decline." Follow the link to read UGA's story in full: https://greatcommitments.uga.edu/story/bolstering-immunity/ See more

Dr. Lance Wells, Director of the ILS Program, has been named a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Distinguished Investigator. GRA Distinguished Investigators are rising-star scientists working in strategic areas and possess a strong potential to translate research outcomes into products or treatments for diseases.

34% INCREASE OVER LAST 5 YEARS!!! FUELED BY GRADUATE STUDENTS!!!

Hannah Stephen, ILS enrollee and BMB DVM/PhD Student in ILS Director Dr. Lance Wells' laboratory, receives prestigious NIH F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship. CONGRATS HANNAH!!!

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