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...
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...
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.”
2018-09-27 - New research conducted by biochemists at the University of Illinois has determined how damaged liver cells repair and restore themselves through a signal to return to an early stage of postnatal organ development. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
2018-09-18 - Using a suite of techniques both common and new to geology and biology, researchers, from left, M.D./Ph.D. student Jessica Saw, geologist and microbiologist Bruce Fouke, microscopy expert and plant biologist Mayandi Sivaguru and their colleagues made new discoveries about how kidney stones...
2018-09-08 - Each year, at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using computer modeling, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sandia National Laboratories are...
2018-08-30 - The Zhang and Pan labs recently published a joint paper in Nanoscale titled “Carbon dots with induced surface oxidation permits imaging at single-particle level for intracellular studies.”
2018-08-28 - In a new paper in the Journal of Cell Biology, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describe a new technique that can measure the position of every single gene in the nucleus to build a 3D picture of the genome’s organization.