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2011-09-20 - The 3rd Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Sciences (ISRS) will be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Monday, October 10, 2011. The venue of the meeting is the I-Hotel Conference Center.

2011-09-15 - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Supriya Prasanth is corresponding author on "A BEN-domain-containing protein associates with heterochromatin and represses transcription," published in Journal of Cell Science.

2011-09-15 - Professor of Microbiology James Slauch has been recognized as a University Scholar. The program recognizes the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.

2011-09-06 - James Morrissey, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Stephen Sligar are featured in an article on blood clotting mechanisms in LAS News.

2011-07-30 - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, and Biophysics and Computational Biology, Maria Spies is corresponding author on "Tyrosine phosphorylation enhances RAD52-mediated annealing by modulating its DNA binding."

2011-07-23 - Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Brian Freeman is corresponding author on "Global Functional Map of the p23 Molecular Chaperone Reveals an Extensive Cellular Network" in Molecular Cell.

2011-07-23 - In recognition of his distinguished record as teacher and researcher, Professor of Biochemistry James Morrissey will be awarded the Biennial Investigator Recognition Award for Contributions to Haemostasis from the International Society on Thrombosis & Haemostasis (ISTH).

2011-06-30 - In a new study, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and colleagues identified a new breast cancer tumor suppressor protein, Runx3, and determined how it functioned.

2011-06-29 - Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. This interaction – between a clotting factor and a cell membrane – has baffled scientists for decades.

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.