News Archive [2018]

[ 2018-02 ] The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6 million, five-year grant to transform two of the most productive crops in America into sustainable…

[ 2018-02 ] A popular economic concept is helping IGB researchers understand how microbial communities operate. Microbial communities are in our bodies, in the soil, in forests and oceans,…

[ 2018-02 ] MNTL & IGB Team Up to Develop Use-at-Home Sample Collection Assay for Cancer Patients Courtesy of Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory. Have you every wondered how ground-…

[ 2018-02 ] IGB Director Gene Robinson has been awarded the 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for “leading the genomics revolution in the organismal and population biology of the honey bee.”…

[ 2018-01 ] “Only connect”—E. M. Forster’s pithy quotation captures an essential feature of any society, human or animal: the patterns of interactions among individuals out of which…

[ 2018-01 ] A University of Illinois and Mayo collaboration has demonstrated a novel gene expression analysis technique that can accurately measure levels of RNA quickly and directly from a…

[ 2018-01 ] When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report in the journal…

[ 2018-01 ] There is remarkable biodiversity in all but the most extreme ecosystems on Earth. When many species are competing for the same finite resource, a theory called competitive…

[ 2018-01 ] “Only connect”—E. M. Forster’s pithy quotation captures an essential feature of any society, human or animal: the patterns of interactions among individuals out of which…