Graduate Student Daphne Eagleman in Dr. Nien-Pei Tsai’s lab has been awarded a 2-year Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. This fellowship will support her thesis project to decipher the role of a ubiquitin E3 ligase Nedd4-2 in cellular stress-induced neuronal degeneration...

CDB graduate students wanted to open a discussion about career opportunities, particularly outside of academia. They formed a group that included students and postdocs in the summer of 2017, and to date, the group has hosted three alumni with very different and fascinating career paths.

The Brooke lab is home to post-doctoral fellows, undergraduates and graduate students who are working to understand how influenza adapts and transmits. Two of the lab’s key areas of research are genomic diversity—that is, variation in flu particles on the genetic level—and collective interactions...

Jeremiah Heredia was the first student to join the Procko lab three- and-a-half years ago. Now, the fourth-year biochemistry Ph.D. candidate is an integral member of the group’s research team. Heredia spends most of his time analyzing the interactions between different conformations, or shapes, of...

Monica has been recognized as an Outstanding Scholar by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and as a Chester and Nadine Houston graduate fellow.

The goal of the event? According to STEAM Studio Director Angela Nelson, it was to “break the boundary of ‘You could be a doctor, an engineer, or a lawyer,’” and open the youngsters up to the myriads of possible careers, such as in science and research.

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) is a pivotal center for biomedical research on campus, and our program attracts more funding than any other unit in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Our energetic, top-notch graduate students and faculty, and high caliber research projects...

The MCB Graduate Student Association (GSA), known as the MCBees, inaugurated a new outreach event, “Science on Tap,” on Sunday, November 19, 2017. Zach Costliow (Degnan Lab) presented, “Homebrewed Vitamins: What B1 and B. thetaiotaomicron are doing in your gut” at Riggs in Urbana.

Professor Martha Gillette will lead the program to form new insight on the brain and expand participation in field of brain science.

Novel imaging techniques are necessary for examining whole brain protein expression patterns. Animal brains are large, complex structures that are difficult to image comprehensively. Neurons can be several inches long, while only a few nanometers in width and can branch in many directions...