2008-07-22
- “I still remember the picture I took of my first electrophoresis gel,” said Andrew Smith, a senior in MCB. “I still have it.” Smith was not conducting research in a faculty lab when he ran his first gel, nor was he working as a biotechnology intern. He was attending his introductory, sophomore-year MCB laboratory course.
Teaching lab specialist Elizabeth Blinstrup explained that while lectures...
2008-06-30 - Biochemist Emad Tajkorshid has created the first-ever simulation of a molecule binding to a protein.
2008-06-22 - With the support of a major grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology has been selected as one of only a dozen laboratories worldwide to receive a prototype OMX Applied Precision microscopy system.
2008-06-16 - Biochemistry professor David Shapiro led his team to discover compounds that inhibit estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells.
2008-06-16 - CDB professor Mary Schuler and her team discovered an enzyme that metabolizes DDT in malarial mosquitoes.
2008-05-22 - Associate Professor Steven Blanke and his team have identified the receptor for a toxin produced by ulcer-causing bacteria.
2008-05-20 - Researchers at Illinois led by Claudio Grosman, professor of molecular and integrative physiology have painstakingly mapped the interior of a key component of the relay system that allows the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to get its message across.
2008-04-22 - On May 27th, Phillip A. Newmark, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB), was named a 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. With this award Dr. Newmark joins a select group of 56 biomedical scientists chosen from among 1,070 applications submitted in a nationwide competition.
2008-04-16 - Andrew Belmont and his team developed a live-cell labeling technique for imaging chromatin at high resolution.
2008-02-28 - Anne Carpenter, MCB alumna and Imaging Platform Director for the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, was featured in a half-hour television documentary, Bold Visions: Women in Science and Technology. The television special aired on WILL-TV March 16, and on other PBS networks.
2008-01-04 - Phil Best, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, grew up hiking, camping, and hunting in Maryland. Even now, he is happiest diving with humpback whales or biking from Seattle to Portland with his daughter and son-in-law.
2008-01-01 - When David Kranz was born, his parents got a two-for-one deal. Ninety minutes after his arrival, Kranz’s brother Robert came along. The Kranz twins shared many interests, including a fascination with science and, particularly, nature. Today, Kranz is a professor of biochemistry in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) at the University of Illinois (U of I) and his brother is a...
2007-10-25 - On October 3 at noon in the CLSL Auditorium (B102), the School of MCB sponsored a distinguished lecturer seminar by Susan Lindquist, PhD. Dr. Lindquist earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology from Illinois in 1971. She received the University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award in 2006 and presented the Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture, Protein Folding and Misfolding in Neurobiology, at the...
2007-10-01 - Stephen Sligar, Gunsalus Professor of Biochemistry and University Scholar, and collaborators in the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology recently made the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry.-
2007-09-01 - Stephanie Ceman knew when she was in sixth grade that she wanted to go to college. Her parents, on the other hand, were not so sure. "My parents really resisted. They were afraid I'd turn into a hippie," she says. Ceman's goal was not to become a hippie, but rather to become a doctor. It seemed the most logical career path at the time to Ceman, who enjoyed math and biology. "I liked knowing about...