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Charles Schroeder

[ ] Charles Schroeder, Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (Biosystems Design) has been named a Dr. Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar, a position…

Ruby Mendenhall Featured, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Webcast

[ ] Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work, was recently featured in a webcast on the Spotlight on…

Institute for Genomic Biology Renamed for Professor Carl R. Woese

[ ] The University of Illinois’ Institute for Genomic Biology has been renamed in honor of a microbiology professor who changed the course of science with his discovery of a third…

Illinois Proof of Concept Fund Pre-proposal Applications

[ ] Pre-proposal applications for funding are being accepted now through February 27, 2015 This program helps bridge the gap between University innovations and the marketplace by…

Food and Fuel From Oilcane: A Minute With Agricultural Expert Stephen Long

[ ] Illinois plant biology professor Stephen P. Long and his collaborators have engineered sugarcane so that it accumulates oil in its stems that can be made into biodiesel. They now…

Brendan Harley and Jian Ma

[ ] Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) and Jian Ma, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering (Cellular…

Harnessing the Power of Big Data: A Revolution in Genomic Data Analysis

[ ] Internet search engines like Google allow us to search and parse the collective knowledge of the world—they anticipate the user’s questions, remember preferences, deliver…

IGB Establishing Research Theme in Computational Genomic Medicine

[ ] Medicine is in the midst of a flood of genomic data. From the genomes of individuals to the genomes of our microbiomes there is an increasing need to develop computational methods…

Study Yields Insights into Human, Dog Migration in the Americas

[ ] 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 land…

IGB Travels to Shenzen, China for BGI Workshop

[ ] As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, members of the Institute for Genomic Biology have once again traveled to BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics…

Helen Corley Petit Scholars

[ ] Douglas Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Mining Microbial Genomes) and Karen Sears, Assistant Professor of the School of Integrative Biology (Regenerative Biology…

Rashid Bashir

[ ] Rashid Bashir, Bioengineering Professor and Department Head (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) has been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and…

Birds Find Their Place in the Avian Tree of Life

[ ] An international effort involving more than 100 researchers, nine supercomputers and about 400 years of CPU time has yielded the most reliable avian tree of life yet produced,…

American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014 Fellows

[ ] Six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected 2014 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including Brendan A.…

American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014 Fellows

[ ] Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) and Phillip Newmark, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology…

Study Shows Different Species Share a "Genetic Toolkit" for Behavioral Traits

[ ] 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, researchers…

Cellular Decision Making Focus of New IGB Theme

[ ] Cellular Decision Making Focus of New IGB Theme If a cell is damaged, does it repair itself or decide to self-destruct? And just how does the cell make that decision? The…

Team Discovers How Microbes Build a Powerful Antibiotic

[ ] Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthrough in understanding how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature. Their discovery solves a decades-…

Koala Study Reveals Clues About Origins of the Human Genome

[ ] Eight percent of your genome derives from retroviruses that inserted themselves into human sex cells millions of years ago. Right now the koala retrovirus (KoRV) is invading koala…

Stephen Long

[ ] Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology (Genomic Ecology of Global Change, Biosystems Design) was presented with the Thomson Reuters Highly…