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Where Science Meets Society

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The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is an innovative research institute using cutting-edge genomic practices to tackle large-scale global challenges currently facing humanity.

Food security for a growing population. Effective therapeutic drugs and antibiotics. Automated synthesis of new molecules and proteins. Using a team-based, collaborative science approach, researchers at the IGB are addressing these and other complex issues. Our main areas of research below are each supported by our strong commitment to fundamental science – the pursuit of discovery.

Health & Wellness

Health +
Wellness

How the genome enhances, affects, or disrupts physical and mental wellbeing.

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Technology & Socety

Tech +
Society

Advancing our capability to shape the world and capacity to understand each other.

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Agriculture & Energy

Ag +
Energy

Sustainably feeding and fueling a planet impacted by a changing global climate.

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Outreach & Public Engagement

Outreach &
Public Engagement

Encouraging the public to understand how genomics affects daily life and society.

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Roots of Genomics installation at IGB

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Roots of Genomics installation at IGB

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Featured Stories

Three Illinois professors are recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships this year: from left, materials science and engineering professor Yingjie Zhang, chemistry professor Angad Mehta, and chemistry professor Lisa Olshansky.
Illinois professor Uwe Rudolph, left, and research scientist Maltesh Kambali led an international group of researchers who found a key role for an enzyme regulating glycine in the brain while investigating a rare genetic mutation found in two patients with schizophrenia. Photo by Michelle Hassel
Professor and C.A. Ewing Chair of Crop Physiology Lisa Ainsworth / L. Bran Stauffer
Stephen Long and Donald Ort of the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project.
Biochemistry professor Nash Kalsotra
Education professor Rochelle Gutiérrez has been named to the National Academy of Education. A professor of curriculum and instruction and of mathematics education, Gutiérrez challenges deficit views of racial minority students and believes that teachers must have more than pedagogical or content knowledge to be successful. An Illinois faculty member since 1996, Gutiérrez also holds appointments in Latino/Latina Studies and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.