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A new study led by Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Philip Newmark promises to be useful in battling parasitic disease.

MCB researchers led by Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Supriya Prasanth have identified a novel protein that is highly conserved in higher eukaryotes. They have shown that in human cells, this protein binds to heterochromatic structures, and plays an essential role in DNA...

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Kannanganattu Prasanth is corresponding author of "The Nuclear-Retained Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Regulates Alternative Splicing by Modulating SR Splicing Factor Phosphorylation," published in Molecular Cell.

Associate Professor of Microbiology Brenda Wilson is co-leader in a project in which the University of Illinois joins forces with the Mayo Clinic.

On Friday, September 10, the MCB Faculty Excellence Award was presented to Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology, and Plant Biology Colin Wraight; and to Professor of Microbiology James Imlay.

Professors of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Computational Biology Colin Wraight and Stephen Sligar are involved with a team of researchers who have created solar cells that use proteins from the cellular machinery of plants to repair themselves.

Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellenbogen is among three University of Illinois faculty funded by a new grant.

Rachel Smith-Bolton has accepted a faculty position with the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Professor Smith-Bolton comes to Urbana from the University of California at Berkeley.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Maria Spies appears in LAS News, a publication of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Phil Newmark is featured in an article in the HHMI Bulletin.