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4/25/14 Writer: Claire Sturgeon, 217-244-0941, csturg@illinois.edu Source: Karen Sears, 217-244-7855, ksears@life.illinois.edu IGB researcher stars in national TV series Karen Sears holds a gray short-tailed opossum in front of the camera. Special lighting has transformed this evolutionary biologist’s ordinary laboratory at the University of Illinois into a television set. Two days of filming has produced just three minutes of the 54-minute episode of Your Inner Fish, a three-part PBS series based on a

IGB researcher stars in national TV series

Plant biology professor and IGB faculty member Andrew Leakey with colleagues report that levels of zinc, iron and protein drop in some key crop plants when grown at elevated CO2 levels.

As CO2 levels rise, some crop nutrients will fall

Don Ort, Professor of Plant Biology, with Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology, discuss corn belt yield limits in a recent perspective in Science magazine.

Yield Limits in the Corn Belt Topic of Latest Science Perspective

Wilfred A. van der Donk, the Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wilfred van der Donk

Registration Now Open for 2014 IGB Fellows Symposium Featuring Susan Wessler

Registration Now Open for 2014 IGB Fellows Symposium

Patricia Blair

Art of Science 4.0

IGB Art of Science 4.0 Opens This Week

Amy Wagoner Johnson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, whose research interests include synthetic biomaterials and bone regeneration.

Amy Wagoner Johnson: Generating New Connections

Microbiologist Rachel Whitaker and team explore the idea of viruses and their hosts coevolving together, using the model system of hot springs at Yellowstone National Park.

New research seeks beneficial qualities of viruses

Landes Bioscience, publisher of the journal RNA Biology, has dedicated their entire March 2014 issue to articles on Carl Woese.

Special Issue of RNA Biology Dedicated to Carl Woese

Tweet your O'Hare photo and win at Array Cafe!

IGB Art of Science Images Featured at O’Hare Airport

IGB Art of Science Images Featured at O’Hare Airport

Plant biology professor and IGB faculty member Stephen Long leads an initiative to turn sugarcane into a more productive, cold-tolerant, oil-rich crop.

Team Converts Sugarcane to a Cold-Tolerant, Oil-Producing Crop