2018-12-31 - Researchers report in a new study that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori – a major contributor to gastritis, ulcers and stomach cancer – resists the body’s immune defenses by shutting down energy production within the cells of the stomach lining that serve as a barrier to infection.

2018-12-31 - MCB Collaboration Unravels Bacteria’s Virulence Regulation System

2018-12-31 - The Brooke lab is home to post-doctoral fellows, undergraduates and graduate students who are working to understand how influenza adapts and transmits. Two of the lab’s key areas of research are genomic diversity—that is, variation in flu particles on the genetic level—and collective interactions between flu particles during the process of infection.

2018-12-31 - Influenza is one of the most adaptable viruses known to man. By tracking down flu’s weak spots, Christopher Brooke’s lab hopes to aid in the development of new treatments.

2018-12-31 - Staphylococcus aureus is on the “most wanted list” for the National Institutes of Health, making it a major villain in the microbial world, said Robert B. Gennis, an MCB biochemistry professor. S. aureus also happens to be on the most wanted list in the lab of Thomas Kehl-Fie, MCB professor of microbiology.That’s why Kehl-Fie and Gennis have teamed up, along with research scientist...

2018-12-31 - Jeremiah Heredia was the first student to join the Procko lab three- and-a-half years ago. Now, the fourth-year biochemistry Ph.D. candidate is an integral member of the group’s research team. Heredia spends most of his time analyzing the interactions between different conformations, or shapes, of the HIV-1 envelope protein (Env) and the antibodies in the immune system.

2018-12-31 - The Procko lab applies big data tools to molecular biochemistry.Their goal: a better understanding of how we might fight HIV-1.

2018-12-31 - “Between the realms of agriculture, nature, and humans, the unifying factor is the microbes that exist in each and the specific genes those microbes carry.The IGOH theme at the IGB allows research to be contextualized, and to exist in a space where lab work becomes immediately relevant and applicable to the rest of the world,” she said.

2018-12-31 - “Microbes are king of the world. If human beings ceased to exist, microbes wouldn’t even notice [except those in the human microbiome], but if microbes ceased to exist today, human beings would cease to exist tomorrow.”

2018-12-21 - UIUC Biochemistry Assistant Professor Hong Jin has been selected as an LAS Helen Corley Petit Scholar.

2018-12-17 - Our fall issue of the MCB magazine focuses on the diverse ways in which microbes affect our health.

2018-12-12 - The Anakk lab has investigated the metabolic repercussions of deleting the scaffolding protein IQGAP1. These findings were published in a paper entitled "Identification of IQ motif-containing GTPase Activating Protein 1 as a regulator of long-term ketosis" in JCI Insight.

2018-10-14 - Mice with epilepsy have altered patterns of neuron activity in the portion of the brain that controls the reproductive endocrine system, University of Illinois researchers report in a new study.

2018-10-03 - In work published in Infection and Immunity, graduate student Jessica Kelliher, from the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Kehl-Fie, investigated how the superbug Staphylococcus aureus regulates the acquisition of phosphate.

2018-09-28 - The Prasanth lab has recently published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research titled “MIR100 host gene-encoded lncRNAs regulate cell cycle by modulating the interaction between HuR and its target mRNAs.”