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Illinois researchers are first to count growth factors in single cells

Laura Schmitt

Whether healthy or diseased, human cells exhibit behaviors and processes that are largely dictated by growth factor molecules, which bind to receptors on the cells. For example…

Launch of new Center for Genomics in Business and Society at IGB

Emily Scott

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is excited to announce the launch of the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society, which…

How to feed the world by 2050?

Claire Benjamin

One of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century is how to sustainably feed a growing and more affluent global population with less water and fertilizers on shrinking…

NYT Columnist and Author Carl Zimmer to Speak on New Book


New York Times columnist and renowned author Carl Zimmer will be giving a lecture on his newest book, titled She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential…

Illinois teams with Anheuser-Busch for bee research

Dave Evensen

There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university.

Ainsworth to receive 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences


Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research theme, will…

Study of archaeal cells could teach us more about ourselves

Emily Scott

Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the IGB are still learning about these ancient organisms in ways that could help us…

Rising temperatures may safeguard crop nutrition as climate changes

Claire Benjamin

Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. A new study in Plant Journal from the University of Illinois…

Researchers study bacterial immunity to understand infectious disease

Emily Scott

Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death.

P. aeruginosa…

Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%

Claire Benjamin

Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-…

Unmuting large silent genes produces new molecules, potential drugs

Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several large gene…

Bees and Beekeeping Short Course


Bees and Beekeeping Short Course at the University of Illinois - May 21st, 2022 Registration Instructions

You can register for the short course by following this link.