Neha Chetlangia

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  • Dr. Andrew Belmont
    Dr. Andrew Belmont reflects on 37 years at Illinois, Gutgsell Professorship
    “What will it mean to be human at the turn of the 22nd century?” was a course Dr. Andrew Belmont, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, once volunteered to co-teach. The new course was proposed as part of a university-wide effort to bridge the sciences and the humanities. When Belmont was...
  • Neha Chetlangia
    ORCA protein impacts timely cell replication in polycomb bodies present in cancer
    In a new publication, University of Illinois School of Molecular & Cellular Biology researchers provide the first-ever comprehensive map of genomic regions near polycomb bodies in bone cancer cells. And, while mapping the genome around the polycomb repressive complex, the team led by professor...
  • Research team members pose together in the School of MCB's CLSL atrium, where banners for each department hang in the background. The research team includes, from left, undergraduate student Darya Asoudegi; graduate students Neha Chetlangia and Fredy Kurniawan; and Supriya Prasanth, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the U. of I. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer.
    Study identifies key regulator of cell differentiation
    Embryonic stem cells and other pluripotent cells divide rapidly and have the capacity to become nearly any cell type in the body. Scientists have long sought to understand the signals that prompt stem cells to switch off pluripotency and adopt their final functional state.