Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB)

Professor Phillip A. Newmark

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On May 27th, Phillip A. Newmark, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB), was named a 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. With this award Dr. Newmark joins a select group of 56 biomedical scientists chosen from among 1,070 applications...

Belmont Developes New Imaging Technique

Andrew Belmont, left, and Igor Kireev, in the cell and developmental biology department, have developed a technique for imaging cells under an electron microscope that yields a sharper image of the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound bundle of genetic material and proteins that makes up the chromosomes. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Andrew Belmont and his team developed a live-cell labeling technique for imaging chromatin at high resolution.

Schuler Solves DDT Insecticide Resistance

Mary Schuler, professor of entomology, biochemistry and plant biology, and postdoctoral researcher Sanjeewa Rupasinghe.
CDB professor Mary Schuler and her team discovered an enzyme that metabolizes DDT in malarial mosquitoes.

Robinson, Clayton Review Published

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Professors Gene Robinson and David Clayton review the link between genes and behavior in the latest issue of Science.

UI researcher named Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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William T. Greenough was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 24. His research has crossed across the disciplines and he holds multiple faculty appointments. He is a Swanlund Endowed Chair, director of the university's Center for Advanced Study and a professor in the...

Research involving adult stem cells receives state grants

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Stephen J. Kaufman was awarded a state grant last week for his research on stem cells. "Kaufman, a professor of cell and developmental biology and member of the university's neuroscience program, — received $250,000 to focus on mesoangioblasts adult stem cells that have the capacity to become...

Planarian Stem Cells

Phillip A. Newmark, U. of I. professor of cell and developmental biology, and graduate student Tingxia Guo were the Illinois co-authors of the paper to appear in the August issue of the journal Developmental Cell.
Phillip A. Newmark, professor of cell and developmental biology, has found a novel way to study stem cell generation. In a paper to be published in Developmental Cell this month, Newmark and other researchers show how planarians use stem cells to regenerate.

Honey bee genome holds clues to social behavior

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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...

Honey bee chemoreceptors found for smell and taste

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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...

Ten professors at Illinois elected as 2006 Fellows

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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...