2017-08-25
- A new study published in Development by Assistant Professor Eric Bolton and Research Associate Hyun-Jung Park reveals that glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), which signals through activation of RET tyrosine kinase, inhibits androgen-induced development of the mouse prostate gland.
2017-08-23 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the multi-investigator group focusing on eliminating influenza virus.
2017-08-17 - The findings are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2017-08-10 - Epithelial cells build specialized cell-cell junctions to separate two different compartments. Many of these cell-cell junctions depend on the actin cytoskeleton for their assembly and maintenance. Graduate student Hui-Chia Yu-Kemp and colleagues identified CRMP-1 and EVL as novel factors necessary for assembling actin in epithelial cells. If either factor is perturbed, then actin filaments are...
2017-08-10 - The work is the cover story of the August issue of The Journal of Cell Biology.
2017-08-03 - The grant to Prof. Kalsotra provides $300,000 over a three-year period to study the molecular basis for cardiac arrhythmias in Myotonic Dystrophy, a multi-systemic disease that affects about 1 in 8000 people with no cure.
2017-08-01 - The National Science Foundation recently granted the University of Illinois $3 million for an interdisciplinary graduate student training program to help form new insight on the brain—and to expand participation in the field of brain science itself.
2017-07-31 - Professor Martha Gillette will lead the program to form new insight on the brain and expand participation in field of brain science.
2017-07-18 - Professor Aditi Das and biochemistry student Josephine Watson published findings in PNAS.
2017-06-27 - The findings, reported in the journal eLife, could assist in the development of therapeutics that promote healthy heart growth and prevent disease. Biochemistry professor Auinash Kalsotra, led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Sandip Chorghade and graduate student Joseph Seimetz.
2017-06-20 - The Allen Distinguished Investigator program supports early-stage research with the potential to reinvent entire fields.
2017-06-02 - Professor Bagchi is the Deborah Paul Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and current department head of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Bagchi is an accomplished scholar and leader, and has provided a clear strategic vision statement for the research and teaching missions of MCB.
2017-05-30 - Dan Llano was recently appointed the Benjamin R. and Elinor W. Bullock and Edwin E. and Jeanne Bullock Goldberg Professorial Scholar in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Llano is an associate professor in MIP and a member of the Beckman Institute's Neurotechnology of Memory and Cognition Group.
2017-05-25 - Dr. Prasanth’s primary teaching responsibility has been the creation and delivery of MCB 400 Cancer Cell Biology, one of the most popular undergraduate elective courses. She is consistently ranked as excellent by her students each semester.
2017-05-22 - The lectureship is sponsored by the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the American Chemical Society’s “Biochemistry” journal.