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Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Leads New ‘Voices of Cancer’ Project

Cancer Center at Illinois

Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer and Associate Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan (CGD/EIRH/GSP) will lead a new “Voices of…

Exploring the Gut’s Potential to Treat Disease

Ben Libman

Our microbiome is critical to our overall health. Scientists have only recently begun to understand the depths to which our overall wellbeing can be affected by the…

Brendan Harley elected to Board of Directors of AIMBE

Kristina Shidlauski

Brendan Harley, Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (RBTE Theme Leader/EIRH) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American…

Microalgae and bacteria team up to convert CO2 into useful products

Diana Yates

Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods…

Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture

IGB Communications

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder will give the IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics "The…

Three Illinois faculty named AAAS Fellows

Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

Three faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including two from IGB, have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of…

Traditional breeding falls short in boosting soybean photosynthesis

Allie Arp

A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to come from traditional breeding methods, and that…

Team finds regional, age-related trends in exposure to drug-resistant pathogen

Diana Yates

Campylobacter infections are the most common foodborne illnesses in the U.S., sickening an estimated 1.5 million people each year. A new study examined records of Campylobacter…

New automated method increases the efficiency of bioactive natural product discovery

Katie Brady

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society and are used for numerous applications such as medicine and pesticides. There are tens of…