News
The American Heart Association’s Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB) selected Department of Biochemistry Professor James H. Morrissey to give the 2013 Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions Annual Conference. Read more...
Department of Microbiology Professor William Metcalf has been appointed to the G. William Arends Professorship in Life Sciences for his accomplishments in research, education, and service. Read more...
William Bruce, Caroline Johnson, and Keith Whitlock, outstanding students from the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, have been selected for three of the five slots specifically reserved for University of Illinois students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program at the Mayo Clinic. Read more...
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Michelle Wegscheid, a senior in the Specialized Curriculum in Biochemistry, as a 2012 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Read more...
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Phillip Newmark is among seven university faculty named a University Scholar. Read more...
MCB Highlights
Researchers find active transporters are universally leaky
Professor of Biochemistry Emad Tajkhorshid and colleagues have discovered that membrane transporters help not just sugars and other specific substrates cross from one side of a cellular membrane to the other—water also comes along for the ride.
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Calendar
Monday, May 27, 2013
Thursday, June 06, 2013
11:00 am FINAL DEFENSE - AMY S. GLEKAS
Thursday, June 13, 2013
10:00 am FINAL DEFENSE - NING SUN
Friday, September 06, 2013
12:00 pm 9th Annual CBI TP Symposium: Prof. Thomas Kodadek, Scripps Florida, "title TBA" & CBI TP trainees
Friday, September 13, 2013
12:00 pm Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Rudy Fratti, University of Illinois "TBD"