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...
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...
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...
2007-09-01 - The Department of Biochemistry will sponsor a special seminar September 14 by Professor Phillip A. Sharp, PhD, Nobel Laureate, and Institute Professor at the Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At noon that day in Spurlock Museum's Knight Auditorium, Professor Sharp...
2007-08-07 - Paul J. Leibson, professor of immunology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and a pre-eminent researcher of NK cells died of cancer on August 6, 2007.
2007-06-01 - As the first of five children in her working-class family, everything Brenda Wilson knew about scientists came from watching them on television or reading in books. Now theme leader for the Host-Microbe Systems research group at the new Institute for Genomic Biology, Wilson's story is no less...
2007-05-08 - In a study published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by Gene Robinson, professor of integrative biology, entomology, and cell and developmental biology, reveal why the queen honey bee lives 10 times longer than her genetically identical...
2007-04-28 - William W. Metcalf and collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin will receive a $7 million award from the National Institutes of Health 'to discover, engineer and produce a promising - yet little explored - class of antibiotic agents."
2007-04-24 - Gene Robinson, professor of integrative biology, entomology, and cell and developmental biology comments on the disappearance of honey bees from colonies across the nation
2007-04-23 - "In a study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U. of I. cell and developmental biology professor Phillip Newmark and colleagues report that the tiny flatworms called planarians share some important characteristics with mammals that may help scientists tease...
2007-03-26 - William Greenough, professor of cell and developmental biology, and psychology and psychiatry, debates the the treatment of brain disorders, proposing that computer-based techniques, though advanced in technology, may are not always the best option over low-tech solutions like surveys and medicines.
2007-03-26 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Paul C. Lauterbur, a University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging, died this morning at his home in Urbana, Ill....-
2007-03-05 - Gene Robinson, professor of integrative biology, entomology, and cell and developmental biology, comments on the importance of findings reported by an article published this week in Public Library of Science Biology. According to the article, "a gene involved in egg production also helps honeybees...