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Since arriving in Urbana-Champaign from his post-doc at Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Rudy Fratti is anxious to begin his work on membrane microdomain assembly and membrane fusion.

Among the newcomers to the Urbana campus are more than 6,700 freshmen and about 106 tenure/tenure track faculty members whose appointments began this summer or fall. On Aug. 22, while new and returning students checked out Quad Day, inside the Illini Union new faculty and staff members were...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - By studying the humble honey bee, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have come a step closer to understanding the molecular basis of social behavior in humans. "The honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been called a model system for social behavior," said...

Researchers led by Gene Robinson, professor of integrative biology, entomology, and cell and developmental biology have accomplished the sequencing of the honey bee genome. "In biology and biomedicine, honey bees are used to study many diverse areas, including allergic disease, development,...

Hugh M. Robertson, professor of entomology and of cell and developmental biology, and postdoctoral research associate, Kevin W. Wanner, report the finding of a family of honey bee chemoreceptors that deals with smell and taste. "'This moves us an important step closer to understanding the molecular...

In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Wilfred van der Donk, professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry, and colleagues were able to identify lantibiotics, "a class of very potent antimicrobial compounds," that may hold important implications for the...

Yi Lu, professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry has developed a simple "dipstick" test for detecting cocaine and other drugs in saliva, urine or blood serum. "Building upon our earlier work with lead (Pb) sensors, we constructed colorimetric sensors that are based on...

A study published in Chemistry and Biology by Huimin Zhao, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and affiliate of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Wilfred A. van der Donk, professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry, concludes...

Akria Chiba, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, and of entomology, and Mark E. Nelson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, biophysics, bioengineering and neuroscience, are two of ten faculty members at the U. of I. to have been have been awarded the distinction of...

Wilfred van der Donk, affiliate of the department of biochemistry, received the 2007 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. He won the award in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry.