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Paul Kenis: Engineering Tools to Enable Biological Studies


Many members of the scientific community who know of Paul Kenis’ work in, among other things, microfuel cells, might be surprised to find him affiliated with the Regenerative…

The Energy Biosciences Institute: Realizing Sustainable Biofuels


From media reports, Americans might conclude that surging ethanol production has put the nation well on the road to energy independence – but that is not quite the case. There…

New tool in the fight against tuberculosis


Researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois have developed a way to harness the prodigious quantities of both genomic and metabolic data…

Hyun Joon Kong: Revascularization in Service of Tissue Regeneration


Civil engineering is not the most traditional route to tissue regeneration research, but that is how chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and IGB researcher Hyun…

Doug Mitchell: Removing Bacteria From Between Rock and Hard Place


As bacteria develop resistance to traditional antibiotics and researchers worldwide seek new ones, Doug Mitchell has explored in directions few others have.

Mitchell,…

Ping Ma: Letting the Data Speak


Cell biology experiments that used to take months now take one day, the number of labs doing bench science has exploded, as have the number of research techniques available and…

Andrew Leakey: Harnessing the Power of Photosynthesis


When school children learn multiplication tables and grammar - before they move on to calculus and physics - they also learn about photosynthesis. In Andrew Leakey's case, the…

Sua Myong: Shedding Light on Single Molecules


Sua Myong, a member of the Precision Proteomics theme at the IGB, is in the business of shifting paradigms, one molecule at a time. Myong, who is also a member of the…

Nathan Price: Applying systems biology to cell chemistry


As a student, Nathan Price had always preferred “quantitative science,” like engineering, to biology. But even so, he had “a definite sense that, going forward, biology was…

Darwin's Playground: Embracing the Creativity of Art and Science


Originally called “the blobs” by Chicago-artist and creator Tony Tasset, the colorful sculptures now known as Darwin’s Playground have become well-known on the University of…

Opportunities to Support


You can support the IGB in two ways: with a current gift, or an endowment. Also known as outright gifts, current gifts provide immediate financial assistance to the IGB.…

Brain Gene Expression Changes When Honey Bees Go the Distance


Tricking honey bees into thinking they have traveled long distance to find food alters gene expression in their brains, researchers report this month. Their study, in the…