2006-05-18
- "Microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, the world's oldest continuously active scientific academy in the world."
2006-05-17 - Last month in San Francisco, five presentations and publications were ranked as the Top 5 hot Talks/Cool Papers of the Materials Research Society's spring meeting. U. of I.'s Yi Lu was among them. Lu, a professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry, was named number three with his paper "Detecting Poisons Using DNA and Nanoparticles."
2006-05-03 - Stephen J. Kaufman was awarded a state grant last week for his research on stem cells. "Kaufman, a professor of cell and developmental biology and member of the university's neuroscience program, — received $250,000 to focus on mesoangioblasts adult stem cells that have the capacity to become skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle cells, as well as nerve cells. It is hoped that they could be used to...
2006-05-03 - Paul J. Hergenrother, affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2006. "The award, administered by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, supports the teaching and research careers of young faculty members in the chemical sciences. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship and a commitment to education that...
2006-04-23 - William T. Greenough was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 24. His research has crossed across the disciplines and he holds multiple faculty appointments. He is a Swanlund Endowed Chair, director of the university's Center for Advanced Study and a professor in the departments of psychology, cell and developmental biology, and psychiatry (College of Medicine).
2006-03-14 - In a study to be published this week in Nature, Albert S. Feng, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, reports on the first documented case of a rare frog (Amolops tormotus) that is able to communicate like bats, whales and dolphins.
2006-03-13 - Klaus Schulten, professor of physics, chemistry, and biophysics and computational biology, and colleagues this week presented the first computer simulation of an entire life form, a virus. The full study will appear in the March issue of the journal Structure.
2006-03-08 - Professors Satish Nair and Wilfred A. van der Donk report in the journal Science on the synthesis of the powerful antibiotic nisin-a, a natural product used to preserve food. Their work sheds light on antibiotic resistance.
2006-02-15 - Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of molecular and integrative physiology and cell and developmental biology and Center for Advanced Study Professor, and John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, have been selected to jointly receive the Roy O. Greep Lecture Award for 2006 from The Endocrine Society.
2006-01-18 - James H. Morrissey, a biochemist, and colleagues at the University of Georgia have discovered that a linear polymer known as polyphosphate speeds blood clotting and helps clots last longer.
2006-01-16 - In work to appear this week on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website, Milan Bagchi, professor of molecular and integrative physiology showed that a specific transcription factor must be present in the uterus of mice in order for pregnancy to occur. "'This protein in the mouse is also in humans,' Bagchi said. 'We believe it plays a critical role in human pregnancy.'"
2006-01-10 - In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Joanna L. Shisler, assistant professor of microbiology, and other researchers report the finding of a protein that could lead to treatment for inflammatory responses such as occur in rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.
2005-11-30 - Dr. Spies comes to Illinois following postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis.
2005-11-09 - Dr. Chen recently completed his postdoctoral research at Gladstone Institute of Immunology and Virology, University of California, San Francisco.
2005-10-09 - Dave Kranz and colleagues won a $450,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study immunotherapies as a safe alternative to surgery for brain cancer.