2011-06-28
- Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Claudio Grosman and research scientist Gisela Cymes used a high-resolution single-molecule study technique to see the very subtle differences between two branches of an important family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels.
2011-06-21 - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Kannanganattu Prasanth has been awarded a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society.
2011-05-31 - Corresponding author Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Kevin Xiang, lead author Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry Taekjip Ha, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Jie Chen, and colleagues have published "Probing cellular protein complexes using single-molecule pull-down" in Nature.
2011-05-24 - "Tunable pKa values and the basis of opposite charge selectivities in nicotinic-type receptors," by Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Claudio Grosman and Research Scientist Gisela Cymes, has been published in Nature.
2011-04-24 - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Hee Jung Chung has been awarded the highly competitive 3-year Carver Young Investigator Award.
2011-04-21 - Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Medical Scholars Program James Slauch has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology.
2011-04-04 - Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Brian Freeman has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.-
2011-02-25 - The journal Molecular and Cellular Biology is featuring "Arginine methylation by PRMT5 at a naturally-occurring mutation site is critical for liver metabolic regulation by Small Heterodimer Partner" by corresponding author Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Jongsook Kim Kemper and colleagues.
2011-02-21 - A research article, communicated jointly by Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Milan Bagchi, and Professor of Comparative Biosciences Indrani Bagchi, has been published in the journal Science. In this paper, researchers at the NIH-funded Center of Research in Reproduction at the University of Illinois address an important unresolved issue in steroid hormone biology: the mechanism...-
2011-02-18 - Alumni Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Martha Gillette is corresponding author on "Direct Cellular Peptidomics of Hypothalamic Neurons," epub’d (ahead of print) in the February 18, 2011 issue of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology.
2011-01-24 - Three MCB professors have made the list of the 50 most prolific writers in Biochemistry.-
2010-12-20 - American Society for Microbiology Press has just published Bacterial Pathogenesis: a Molecular Approach, 3rd Edition, by Brenda A. Wilson, Abigail A. Salyers, Dixie D. Whitt, and Malcolm E. Winkler.
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2010-11-29 - Linda Birnbaum and Keith Westcott are two of the four winners of the top alumni awards from the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2010.
2010-11-29 - Professor of Biochemistry and Crafoord Prize Recipient Carl Woese is co-author of a paper to appear in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics.-
2010-11-12 - "Glimpsing the Critical Intermediate in Cytochrome P450 Oxidations," by Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and I.C. Gunsalus Professor of Biochemistry Stephen Sligar, is published in the November 12 issue of Science.