Professional development workshop aimed at empowering women for successful careers
MCB faculty and staff presented strategies for success at the recent Women's Career Institute event held on February 24, 2018.
The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MCB Highlights
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Cronan Lab: Lipoyl transfer has a "moonlighting" function -- that is, development of a new function while retaining the original function
The study's findings were recently published in PNAS
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Engineering T cells to attack cancer
The Kranz lab and colleagues have recently publish a trio of papers that describe the engineering of receptors that can mediate specific and potent destruction of cancers by T cells.
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Researchers identify new physiological regulators of the one carbon cycle metabolism. The findings were published in Nature Communications.
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Jongsook Kim Kemper and the first and co-corresponding author, Young Kim, co-author Sangwon Byun, and colleagues demonstrated that Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) and the orphan nuclear receptor, Small Heterodimer Partner (SHP), have an unexpected function in regulating one carbon (1C) metabolism in the f...
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Social experience tweaks genome function, behavior
In a recent Genome Research publication, Stubbs and her colleagues identified and documented the activity of networks of genes involved in the response to social stress.
