University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Jun Song, a professor of bioengineering and of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sequence features accurately predict genome-wide MeCP2 binding in vivo

Derek Wildman, a CompGen researcher and professor of molecular and integrative physiology

Ancestral trees determine disease-causing genetic variants

Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology Stephen P. Long

Biodiesel from sugarcane more economical than soybean

This new class of muscle-powered walking bio-bots responds to light and has a modular design.

Light illuminates the way for bio-bots

Joan Strassmann Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Washington University in St. Louis

IGB Fellows Symposium, May 5, 2016

Arundo donax, also known as giant reed, grows abundantly in the Mediterranean climate zones of the world.

Giant reed is a photosynthetic outlier, study finds

Infrared intensity map of lipid-associated band in brain shows regions with different lipid distributions.

Illinois group to study brain health as part of NIH BRAIN Initiative

From left, Theme Leader and Professor of Chemistry Paul Hergenrother, Associate Professor of Oncology Timothy Fan, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Pablo Perez-Pinera, and Founder Professor of Bioengineering and Physics Jun Song.

Cancer and Companion Animals Focus of New IGB Theme

Plant breeding efforts, like the Illinois field trial shown here, will benefit from fast and precise technologies to evaluate transgenics

The proof of the plant breeding is in the (digital droplet) PCR

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