2018-08-24
- Molecular and integrative physiology professor Hee Jung Chung, postdoctoral fellow Eung Chang Kim, and their colleagues discovered that abnormal expression and phosphoinositide regulation of KCNQ/Kv7 potassium channels underlie neuronal hyperexcitability and injury in early-onset epileptic...
2018-07-26 - Monica has been recognized as an Outstanding Scholar by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and as a Chester and Nadine Houston graduate fellow.
2018-07-24 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2018 annual alumni awards: Anne Carpenter, (PhD,'03 CSB) and Joanne Chory, (MS, '80 MICRO).
2018-07-24 - The Cronan lab recently published a paper in PNAS titled “Protein moonlighting elucidates the essential human pathway catalyzing lipoic acid assembly on its cognate enzymes.”
2018-07-24 - A study led by Dr. Geena Skariah, a recent Neuroscience graduate of the Ceman lab in Cell and Developmental Biology, and current postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, revealed the importance of the protein Mov10 (Moloney leukemia virus 10) in neurological development in animals....
2018-07-24 - 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.
2018-07-24 - The Celebration of Diversity program is an annual event that brings together campus and community leaders to affirm their collective support for an inclusive society and community. This event celebrates the achievements of faculty, academic professionals and civil service employees who make...
2018-07-23 - The Kemper lab has recently published two high-profile papers on metabolic regulation in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.
2018-07-23 - This image was part of the seventh annual Art of Science exhibit at the University of Illinois Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB). Learn more about the Art of Science program. (Date image taken: 2017; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: ) (Date image taken: 2017; date...
2018-07-22 - Prasanth’s lab published several papers on a particular lncRNA called MALAT1, with significant findings showing an important link between cancer and MALAT1. They found that when MALAT1 is overexpressed in breast cells, the cells form tumors. Conversely, when it is depleted in breast cancer cells,...
2018-07-17 - Research scientist Kwan Young Lee, molecular and integrative physiology professor Nien-Pei Tsai, and their colleagues discovered that an overabundance of the tumor suppressor protein p53 in neurons can lead to impaired regulation of neuronal excitability in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome.
2018-06-26 - A cell’s efforts to respond and adapt to its external environment rely on an elaborate yet coordinated set of molecular partnerships within. The more we learn about this complicated internal dance, the more we appreciate the flexibility of its roles. In a recent University of Illinois study,...
2018-05-30 - 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.
2018-05-14 - Gennis Lab: Researchers determined the structure of a supercomplex of enzymes many bacteria use to generate energy.
2018-04-26 - The Department of Biochemistry held its second annual graduate student award symposium on Friday, April 6th. The symposium featured two speakers who received awards: Dr. Harris, the recipient of the 2017 Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, and William Arnold, who...