2009-06-23
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology David Clayton has been appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
2009-06-18 - Professor of Biochemistry Robert Gennis has been invested as a Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor.-
2009-06-17 - Professor of Microbiology William Metcalf, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair, and Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry Wilfred van der Donk have identified and analyzed an iron-containing enzyme involved in a bond-breaking reaction.
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2009-06-17 - In August, 2009, Sinauer Associates Inc. publishes Neural Systems Modeling, by Thomas Anastasio, associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology. The book was selected by the publisher as their featured book for the spring.
2009-06-17 - In 2001 Heather Vlamakis coauthored a paper detailing the spread of antibiotic resistance among bacteria in the human body. It was one of the first publications to show that bacteria can share antibiotic resistance genes in natural settings, and Vlamakis did her work as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois.
2009-06-16 - Gene Robinson, director of the Neuroscience Program and affiliate professor of cell and developmental biology, and Martha Gillette, alumni professor of cell and developmental biology, have been awarded Center for Advanced Study Professorships.
2009-06-16 - Edwin E. Goldberg, 85, passed away on April 25, 2009 in Bonita Springs with his loving wife, Jeanne by his side.
2009-06-09 - Although it has been almost one year since he learned he’d become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, Phillip Newmark, associate professor of cell and developmental biology (CDB), is still pleased with his good fortune.
2009-06-08 - Microbiology professor Rachel Whitaker has released a study of Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that lives holds clues to evolution.
2009-05-24 - Steven Blanke, a University of Illinois professor in the department of microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology, has helped discover how the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is able to get into cells in the acidic, inhospitable human stomach.-
2009-05-17 - Numerous teachers and students were honored in this year's School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Awards Ceremony, held in May.
2009-05-03 - Yang Xiang and his partners have developed a nanoneedle capable of delivering molecules directly into living cells.
2009-04-26 - Jongsook Kim Kemper authored a paper on how a molecule is controlled to regulate cholesterol conversion into bile acids.
2009-03-24 - The UI Board of Trustees voted March 11 to present its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medallion, to Carl R. Woese, the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Microbiology.
2009-03-22 - New research on phagocytes by Maureen Craig and Dr. James Slauch has been published online.