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Douglas Mitchell

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Postdoctoral researcher Katarzyna Glowacka, left, crop sciences professor Erik Sacks, visiting scholar Shailendra Sharma, and their colleagues found that chill-tolerant sugarcane hybrids, called “miscanes,” also photosynthesize at lower temperatures.

Chill-Tolerant Hybrid Sugarcane Grows at Lower Temperatures

Associate Professor of Anthropology Ripan Malhi was a senior coauthor among an international team of researchers, who clarified the history of early migration to the Americas with an extensive sequencing study.

Genomes Tell Story of Native American Biological Origins

The smartphone app, MoveSense, monitors cardiopulmonary patients by analyzing the way they walk to predict their oxygen saturation level, without the need for a pulse oximeter.

MoveSense App Makes Cellphone A Monitor for Heart and Lung Patients

Increasing Crop Productivity Through More Efficient, Better Neighbor Plants

Campers collect insect samples outside at the pollinatarium.

Camp Participants Forecast Bright Future for Women in Plant Science

James O'Dwyer

Evolutionary Trees Reveal Patterns of Microbial Diversification

David LeBauer, a plant biologist, will act as principal investigator for the supercomputing pipeline and reference sensing platform components.

Illinois receives $1.8M to create data platform for Big Data in plant breeding

Saurabh Sinha, a professor of computer science, found with colleagues that genomics data will likely surpass other Big Data in scale.

Genomics Among the Biggest of Big Data, Experts Say

New BD2K grant to researchers at the University of Illinois and Stanford will fund the development of more efficient genomic data compression software.

Cutting Big Data Down to a Usable Size

University of Illinois Awarded $3.1M Grant from DOE ARPA-E

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Lifelong Learning Meets Life-Changing Research

Bioengineerng graduate student Chen Liao, first author of the PNAS article, in the lab with Assistant Professor Ting Lu (right).

Unlocking Fermentation Secrets Open the Door to New Biofuels

Gene Robinson, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (middle), with Menahem Ben-Sasson, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (left) and Asher Cohen, Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (right).

Director Receives Degree in Honor of Hebrew University 90th Celebration