An Emerging Field for a Rising Professor

Cari Vanderpool
Assistant Professor of Microbiology Carin Vanderpool, never predicted she would be in the position she is today. After only two years at the University of Illinois she has created a lab from the ground up, been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and made great strides...

MCB Professors Discover Unusual Chemical Reaction

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Professor of Microbiology William Metcalf, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair, and Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry Wilfred van der Donk have identified and analyzed an iron-containing enzyme involved in a bond-breaking reaction.

Metcalf Fights Malaria

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Microbiology professor William Metcalf and his team have developed a way to mass-produce an antimalarial compound.

Woese to Recieve Achievement Award

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Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese will be honored this year with the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on microbe diversity.

Imlay featured in ASBMB Today

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Professor of microbiology James Imlay is featured in the latest issue of ASBMB Today for his work on the mechanisms of oxidative damage.

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

Microbiologist Joanna L. Shisler and Daniel Brian Nichols, a graduate student, retrieve MC160-expressing cell lines from cryostorage.
In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Joanna L. Shisler, assistant professor of microbiology, and other researchers report the finding of a protein that could lead to treatment for inflammatory responses such as occur in rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.

Critical research initiatives receive recognition, funding

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The Vice Chancellor for Research's Critical Research Initiatives program will sponsor six projects this year. Of those six, co-principal investigators Wilfred van der Donk, professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry and William Metcalf, professor of microbiology, have...