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Microbiology professor and member of the Biocomplexity research theme Rachel Whitaker, with colleagues, found two groups of nearly identical microbes that were diverging into different species.

Microbiology professor and member of the Biocomplexity research theme Rachel Whitaker, with colleagues, found two groups of nearly identical microbes that were diverging into different species.

Gene Robinson Named IGB Director

Professor Gene Robinson has accepted the position of Director of the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) effective January 9, 2012, pending approval of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Abbott and University of Illinois Establish Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory

Abbott and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced today they have established the first-ever multi-disciplinary nutrition and cognition research center, which will be located on the Urbana campus.

Microbiology professor Steven Blanke, right, doctoral student Prashant Jain, and a colleague at Purdue University found a mechanism linking Helicobacter pylori infection, impairment of the mitochondria and cell death.

Microbiology professor Steven Blanke, right, doctoral student Prashant Jain, and a colleague at Purdue University found a mechanism linking Helicobacter pylori infection, impairment of the mitochondria and cell death.

The National Science FoundaThe National Science Foundation has awarded the Institute for Genomic Biology and the School of Integrative Biology a $3.2 million training grant. Pictured here is principal investigator Andrew Suarez, with co-PIs Gene Robinson, Carla Cáceres, and Sandra Rodriguez-Zas.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the Institute for Genomic Biology and the School of Integrative Biology a $3.2 million training grant. Pictured here is principal investigator Andrew Suarez, with co-PIs Gene Robinson, Carla Cáceres, and Sandra Rodriguez-Zas.

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James Slauch and Paul Kenis have been named as University Scholars, a program created to recognize the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.

University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Huimin Zhao and his colleagues engineered a new detector of compounds that bind to estrogen receptors in human cells.

University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Huimin Zhao and his colleagues engineered a new detector of compounds that bind to estrogen receptors in human cells.

Andrew Leakey, a member of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change theme at IGB, was recently selected as a Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study

Andrew Leakey, a member of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change theme at IGB, was recently selected as a Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study.  Leakey’s proposal, “Opening the Black Box of Plant Responses to Global Environmental Change with Genomic Tools”, deals with global environmental change in this century and the impact on growing conditions in farmers' fields and crop yields.

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Researchers got a first look at microbes that inhabit the colonic mucosa. Pictured, from left, University of Illinois animal sciences and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Rex Gaskins, animal sciences visiting research specialist Ann Benefiel, Carle Foundation Hospital gastroenterologist Dr. Eugene Greenberg, and postdoctoral researcher Franck Carbonero.

James Slauch and Wilfred van der Donk

James Slauch and Wilfred van der Donk  have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. They are among the 78 microbiologists chosen by their peers for significant contributions to their field.