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Huimin Zhao

MAGIC system allows researchers to modulate activity of genes acting in concert

Mathematical models provide snapshot of human gut microbial community

Mathematical models provide snapshot of human gut microbial community

University of Illinois iGEM Team

iGEM Team: Cleaning up our Crops

Psychology professor Aron Barbey (left) and colleagues found that the relative size of specific brain regions predicted how much a person would benefit from interventions designed to boost fluid intelligence. Wayne State University psychology professor Ana Daugherty (right) led the research with Barbey.

By imaging brain, scientists can predict aptitude for training

Star-shaped DNA binds onto a dengue virus and lights up to detect the virus in a blood test.

Structurally designed 'DNA star' creates ultrasensitive test for dengue virus

Evolution, ecology and behavior professor Becky Fuller, left, former graduate student Rachel Moran and their colleagues study the factors that drive darter species to diverge. Moran is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota.

Study tracks genomic changes that reinforce darter speciation

Eight Illinois researchers rank among world’s most influential

Eight Illinois researchers rank among world’s most influential

A University of Illinois team developed a web app that can identify drug compounds that will accumulate in Gram-negative bacteria, overcoming a major hurdle in the development of new drugs to kill these dangerous pathogens. The team includes, from left, graduate student Emily Geddes, pathobiology professor Gee Lau, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, postdoctoral researcher Hyang Yeon Lee, and postdoctoral researcher Erica Parker.

Dozens of potential new antibiotics discovered with free online app

Female cowbird

Signature call in cowbirds is the password that unlocks song learning

Scott Weisberg, left, professor Saurabh Sinha, seated, Mohammad (Sam) Hamedi Rad and professor Huimin Zhao have combined a fully automated robotic platform with artificial intelligence to develop a new way to manufacture chemicals.

Artificial intelligence to run the chemical factories of the future

Mosquitoes can carry a variety of infectious diseases that until now were difficult and expensive to diagnose.

Smartphone diagnostics kit for infectious diseases

Online tool speeds response to elephant poaching by tracing ivory to source

Online tool speeds response to elephant poaching by tracing ivory to source

LAS Dean's Distinguished Lecture with IGB Director

LAS Dean's Distinguished Lecture with IGB Director

Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society

Kleinmuntz Center Inaugural Year

University of Illinois professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés and graduate student Fizza Mughal (not pictured) used a bioinformatics approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of metabolic networks.

Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks