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Giving with Purpose
Gregory Toreev
Along with helping produce innovative medical and pharmaceutical products, Dr. Mark Tracy, PhD, founder and president of Tracy BioConsulting, LLC, strives to introduce…
IGB Announces New Partnership with ZEISS labs@location Program
A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB…
New tool RODEO captures breadth of microbial biosynthetic potential
Claudia Lutz
In an age of booming biotechnology, it might be easy to forget how much we still rely on the bounty of the natural world. Some microbes make us sick, some keep us healthy,…
New center to apply computing to large-scale genomic problems
Kim Gudeman, CSL.
The human genome consists of three billion nucleotides that, when strung together, offer a glimpse into the basic processes of life as well as risk for disease. However,…
Microbiome Metabolic Engineering - New Theme at IGB
Susan Jongeneel.
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has formed a new research theme, Microbiome Metabolic Engineering (MME). Led by microbiologist and animal scientist Isaac Cann,…
IGB honors renaming with symposium in memory of Carl Woese
Claudia Lutz.
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology’s recent symposium, "Looking in the right direction: Carl Woese and the New Biology," was conceived as a way to celebrate the…
Genome mining effort discovers 19 new natural products in four years
Diana Yates.
It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years – a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms – to scour a…
Study Yields Insights into Human, Dog Migration in the Americas
Diana Yates.
A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a…
Study Shows Different Species Share a "Genetic Toolkit" for Behavioral Traits
Diana Yates.
The house mouse, stickleback fish and honey bee appear to have little in common, but at the genetic level these creatures respond in strikingly similar ways to danger,…