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Kehl-Fie and team discover how bacteria exploit a chink in the body’s armor
Scientists have discovered a new type of bacterial enzyme that can blunt the body’s key weapons in its fight against infection.
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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.
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A study published in PNAS by Prof. Claudio Grosman and Dr. Gisela D. Cymes has revealed the elusive link between amino-acid sequence and charge selectivity in the superfamily of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Here, the authors present compelling evidence for the critical involvement of ionized side chains—whether pore-facing or buried—rather than backbone atoms and propose a mechanism whereby not only their charge sign, but also, their conformation determines charge selectivity.
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High-Risk, High-Reward Research award goes to Illinois biomedical researchers
University of Illinois professors Chad Rienstra (Chemistry), Emad Tajkhorshid, and James Morrissey (Biochemistry) have been awarded a Director’s Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health for their highly creative approach to the study of cell membrane lipids.
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MCB Faculty Named Directors of LAS Graduate Programs
Professor Satish Nair of the Department of Biochemistry has been appointed Director of the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology. Professor Nair has been serving as Interim Director since November 2015. Professor Martha Gillette of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology has been...
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Force triggers gene expression by stretching chromatin
Professors Ning Wang and Andrew Belmont led a team that found the pathway by which physical forces drive gene expression in cells.
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Dr. Kris Jenner endows professorship to honor his undergraduate mentor Professor Stephen G. Sligar; Susan A. Martinis is named to new School of Molecular and Cellular Biology professorship
To recognize the importance of faculty contributions to science and education and to acknowledge Dr. Sligar’s mentorship, Dr. Jenner created the Stephen G. Sligar professorship in 2016. The Investiture was held on October 28, 2016 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
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Professor Milan Bagchi named Deborah Paul Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology is honored to announce that Professor Milan Bagchi, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, has been named the Deborah Paul Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology. An official investiture ceremony was held in the fall semester of 2016.
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MCB Faculty and Staff named Scientific Teaching Fellows and Mentors
The Schools of MCB and IB recently hosted an NSF- and HHMI-sponsored Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) for Undergraduate Biology Education.
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2016 MCB Convocation Address by Dr. Deborah A. Paul
"Do something that means something to you; that you are passionate about."