Third-year Biophysics graduate student Tyler Harpole and Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience, Claudio Grosman, have used molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics computer simulations to test a novel hypothesis as to how the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor controls the rate at which cations enter the cell through the receptor’s transmembrane pore.
Symposium: Saturday, November 8, 2014 Hosted by the Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The protein kinase mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a master regulator of cell growth, survival, differentiation, and metabolism.
Professor of Microbiology John Cronan, Professor of Biochemistry John Gerlt and Professor of Chemistry Jonathan Sweedler, along with colleagues from two other institutions, teamed up to discover the role of an enzyme known as HpbD in its bacterial host, Pelagibaca bermudensis.
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Phillip Newmark and his colleague James Sikes have found an answer to a vexing biological riddle.
Issue 7 2013
History of MCB
We are deeply saddened to report that Professor Colin A. Wraight passed away July 10, 2014 at the age of 68 after a long and heroic struggle with cancer. Read more...
May, 2014: This spring, the Department of Biochemistry and the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology recognized the accomplishments of one of our most distinguished alumni, Phillip A. Sharp, with an honorary doctorate presented at convocation. Read more...
Assistant professor of biochemistry and medical biochemistry, Auinash Kalsotra, has been awarded the Basil O’Conner Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes. Read more...
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Auinash Kalsotra, and colleagues have discovered the process by which myotonic dystrophy affects activity of the small bits of genetic material called microRNAs in the heart. Read more...
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk published an article in the November 21, 2013, edition of Cell Reports entitled "Bile Acids Activate YAP to Promote Liver Carcinogenesis." Read more...
