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.
- 2009-03-15 - Professor of microbiology James Imlay is featured in the latest issue of ASBMB Today for his work on the mechanisms of oxidative damage.
- 2009-03-10 - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and his colleagues discovered a novel way inflammation is regulated.
- 2009-02-22 - Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese will be honored this year with the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on microbe diversity.
- 2009-02-10 - Assistant Professor of CDB Supriya Prasanth coauthored a paper detailing the novel role of an important cell division protein.
- 2009-01-24 - Professor of Microbiology Abigail Salyers has been given the American Society for Microbiology Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award. The honor is given to an individual for distinguished teaching at the graduate level and outstanding mentoring of graduate and postgraduate students.