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Meet MCB: Jeremiah Heredia, biochemistry PhD candidate
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...
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Congratulations to Monica Chinea Diliz on receiving the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Outstanding Scholar Award!
Monica has been recognized as an Outstanding Scholar by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and as a Chester and Nadine Houston graduate fellow.
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MCB graduate students serve as role models for middle school girls in Science Social Café
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.
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Private funding continues to provide a large number of scholarships to both domestic and international students.
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...
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MCB graduate students present "Science on Tap"
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.
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NSF awards Illinois $3 million for interdisciplinary graduate student training
Professor Martha Gillette will lead the program to form new insight on the brain and expand participation in field of brain science.
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Chris Seward's image "Clear Mind" takes 2nd place in Image of Research contest
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...
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Inhibitory neurons in green and neuron bundles expressing a protein that is triggered by a social experience in red.
Two LAS students have been honored in U of I's annual Image of Research competition, in which graduate students pair powerful images with compelling descriptions of research. Out of a pool of 20 finalists, Chris Seward, a graduate student in cell and developmental biology, won second place, and...
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MCBees Help Recruit, Provide Student Support, & Share the Joy of Science
At the first meeting of the MCBees in November, 2015, they picked the leadership, working to ensure that all the departments were represented. In January of 2016, once they became an officially registered GSA, they started recruiting MCB grad students via email. So far, around 150 of MCB’s 250...
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Two Molecular and Integrative Physiology Graduate Students Make Final Round of Graduate College’s Research Live! Competition
The competition draws entrants from across the College, and entrants are challenged to explain their graduate work in 3 minutes with only 2 slides. Presentations were scored on delivery, clarity, effectiveness of visual material, and accessibility of language.