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[ ] Christopher Rao (Biosystems Design, Energy Biosciences Institute) received the Excellence in Research Award from the College of Engineering for his research accomplishments in the…

[ 2014-02 ] Advanced techniques yield new insights into ribosome self-assembly Ribosomes, the cellular machines that build proteins, are themselves made up of dozens of proteins and a few…

[ 2014-02 ] Department of Bioengineering announces first Founder Professor, Jun S. Song Bioengineering at Illinois is pleased to announce the department’s first Founder Professor, Jun S. Song…

[ ] Brian Cunningham, professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, has been elected as a 2013…

[ 2014-01 ] War Elephant Myths Debunked by DNA Through DNA analysis, Illinois researchers have disproved years of rumors and hearsay surrounding the ancient Battle of Raphia, the only known…

[ 2013-12 ] Oil- and metal-munching microbes dominate deep sandstone formations Halomonas are a hardy breed of bacteria. They can withstand heat, high salinity, low oxygen, utter darkness and…

[ ] Assistant Professor of Plant Biology Carl Bernacchi has been selected as a 2014-2015 Helen Corley Petit Scholar, an endowment which funds development of the scholarship and…

[ 2013-12 ] Carl Bernacchi Selected as a 2014-2015 Helen Corley Petit Scholar Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and IGB faculty member Carl Bernacchi has been selected as a 2014-2015 Helen…

[ 2013-12 ] New Method of DNA Editing Allows Synthetic Biologists to Unlock Secrets of a Bacterial Genome A group of Illinois researchers, led by Centennial Chair Professor of the Department…

[ ] Brendan Harley has been selected to receive the 2014 Young Investigator Award of the Society for Biomaterials.  This award is given to recognize an individual within ten…

[ 2013-12 ] May Berenbaum to serve on NSF advisory committee This October, Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise nominated May Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of Entomology, to the…

[ 2013-12 ] Illinois Initiative Creates Futuristic Facility Through the CompGen initiative, the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology and the Coordinated Science Laboratory in the…

[ ] Brian Cunningham was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America “for the invention, development, and commercialization of biosensors and detection instrumentation based…

[ ] Charles Schroeder (Biosystems Design) was named a Center for Advanced Study 2014-15 Fellow, pending BOT approval in January.

[ 2013-11 ] Ancient, modern DNA tell story of first humans in the Americas University of Illinois anthropology professor Ripan Malhi looks to DNA to tell the story of how ancient humans first…

[ ] C. Victor Jongeneel C. Victor Jongeneel is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Director of Bioinformatics at the Institute…

[ 2013-11 ] IGB Member Chosen for Top Paper at Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference Saurabh Sinha, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and colleagues chosen for Top Ten Paper Award…

[ 2013-11 ] Abigail Salyers: 1942 - 2013 During her 40-year career, Abigail Salyers revolutionized how we think about the bacteria that live in the human intestinal tract, helped design…

[ 2013-11 ] Slow and steady: A drug delivery implant that folds – and paces – itself Researchers who seek to improve drug delivery systems encounter a principle that evokes the fabled race…

[ 2013-11 ] Researchers Unmask Centuries-old Elephant Imposter Through state-of-the-art ancient DNA and protein research and an exhaustive investigation of historical literature, researchers…