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Green alga Lacunastrum gracillimum, female cones of gymnosperm, Gnetum gnemon, and cherry tree flower, Prunus domestica.

Study provides framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution

Nigel Goldenfeld

Goldenfeld co-leads initiative tackling 'last great problem of classical physics'

The new center will combine campus’ areas of expertise in engineering and agriculture to cement Illinois’ position as an innovator in this emerging field of agricultural technology, and develop solutions to agricultural problems that use digital technology.

University of Illinois announces Center for Digital Agriculture

IGB forms external advisory Leadership Council

IGB forms external advisory Leadership Council

Researchers evaluate the photosynthetic traits of corn exposed to high ozone levels. In this experiment, a researcher measures the rate at which gas exchange occurs in a corn leaf.

Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn

Swanlund Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld

Goldenfeld receives Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society

The newly sequenced variety of this study, Ananas comosus var. bracteatus.

Pineapple genome sequences hint at plant domestication in single step

University of Illinois animal biology professor Alison Bell, graduate student Abbas Bukhari

Fish fathers exhibit signatures of “baby brain” that may aid parental behavior

Amanda de Souza

Scientists find ways to improve ‘crop of inequality’ cassava

Genetic Security and Privacy

New IGB research theme takes closer look at protection of genomic data

NHGRI

Illinois, NIH host workshop on equity and diversity in genomic data science

Genome mining reveals novel production pathway for promising malaria treatment

Genome mining reveals novel production pathway for promising malaria treatment

Earth BioGenome Project builds foundation for 10-year mission to sequence life

Earth BioGenome Project builds foundation for 10-year sequencing mission

Doped charges in the CuO2 planes of cuprate superconductors form regular one-dimensional 'stripes' at low temperatures. Excitation with ultrafast near-infrared pulses allows direct observation of diffusive charge dynamics, which may be involved in the establishing in-plane superconductivity. Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Unraveling the stripe order mystery

Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students and scientists participated in the SING workshop at the Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the U. of I. SING alumnus Justin Lund, left, with researchers Jessica Blanchard and Yarrow Vaara, in the lab.

Indigenous scholars confront the power, limitations of genomics