2016-07-10
- In a study published in PLoS Genetics, graduate student Harini Iyer and colleagues show that the transcription factor Nuclear Factor Y-B (NF-YB) is required for SSC proliferation in planarians as well as in Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic flatworm related to the free-living planarian and a...
2016-07-07 - The Schools of MCB and IB recently hosted an NSF- and HHMI-sponsored Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) for Undergraduate Biology Education.
2016-06-14 - "Do something that means something to you; that you are passionate about."
2016-06-12 - Emad Tajkhorshid, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, computational biology, and pharmacology, and his research group are studying the movement of gases across biological membranes, a vital process for powering cells with oxygen and performing photosynthesis, among other things. The group is...
2016-05-17 - Ms. Brandyberry is the recipient of the College Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising; Professor Rivier is the recipient of the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2016-04-15 - A number of current and recent graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have applied for and won prestigious awards and fellowships. The awardees reflect the breadth of outstanding research at UIUC and the quality of students and researchers attracted to the School of Molecular and Cellular...
2016-04-01 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was officially named a Milestones in Microbiology site by ASM on 16 October 2015, in recognition of the many major accomplishments of UIUC microbiologists whose seminal discoveries significantly increased biological understanding, advanced the...
2016-01-12 - The Department of Biochemistry and the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology congratulate Professor David Shapiro, who has been named the Eugene Howe Scholar in Biochemistry.
2016-01-11 - Assistant Professor Auinash Kalsotra has been appointed, pending Board of Trustees approval, as a prestigious Fellow of the University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the academic year 2016-2017.
2016-01-11 - New findings by Professor Stephen Sligar and colleagues have outlined the structural determinates of a chemical transformation that carries profound implications for the potential design of a mechanism-based inhibitors for the treatment of prostate cancer. The research is published in PNAS.
2016-01-11 - Dr. Joanna Shisler, associate professor of microbiology and researcher at the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Beckman Institute, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for research using innovative approaches to...
2016-01-08 - Ipek Tasan (Biochemistry) won First Place, and Robin Holland (Microbiology and Veterinary Medicine) won the People's Choice Award.
2016-01-05 - Gillette, professor of cell and developmental biology, and colleagues will collaborate on various projects involving innovative single cell analysis in brain and the creation of biological machines in hopes of creating new diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
2016-01-05 - The G.William Arends Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and professor of microbiology was selected for his “pioneering discoveries on the genetics and enzymology of methanogenesis by archaea and the mechanisms for aerobic methane formation in marine surface waters.”
2015-12-31 - Through the ages, fertility has played a central role in civilizations. Its cultural, socioeconomic, demographic, religious and global implications were and still are incalculable. A Wikipedia search for “fertility gods,” for example, yields a list of 35 cultures with one, and often...