Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB)

Office of the Provost honors Auinash Kalsotra and Supriya Prasanth

2019-05-29

Auinash Kalsotra (Biochemistry) and Supriya Prasanth (Cell and Developmental Biology) received 2019 Campus Distinguished Promotion Awards from the University of Illinois Office of the Provost. These awards celebrate scholars whose contributions have been extraordinary in terms of quality of work...

Researchers find protein that suppresses muscle repair in mice

2019-05-13

Researchers report that a protein known to be important to protein synthesis also influences muscle regeneration and regrowth in an unexpected manner. The discovery, reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could one day lead to new methods for treating disorders that result in muscle...

Professor William Brieher receives LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

2019-04-24

Professor William Brieher has been selected by an awards committee to receive the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, alongside four other professors at Illinois. This honor grants the recipients $1,000 to support their teaching and research, while a one-time increment of $2,...

Mutations in noncoding genes could play big role in regulating cancer, study finds

2019-03-14

Professor Kannanganattu Prasanth led a team that found that certain genes that don’t code for proteins could play an important regulatory role in breast cancer.

Researchers discover another role for cell protein

2019-01-15

Discovery provides deeper insight into DNA and the fight against cancer.

Meet MCB: Team Players

2018-12-31

A tight shot of a microscope with a soft orange gradient layer.

The Prasanths began a new life as postdoctoral researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. And today, as University of Illinois CDB professors, they continue to work side by side — literally. Their respective labs are next to each other in the Chemical and Life Sciences Building...

Meet MCB: Neal Kitchen, PhD 2009

2018-12-31

When Neal Kitchen joined the department of cell and developmental biology in 2002, his plan was to get a PhD and then find a job with a company that would pay for an MBA program. But just as he neared graduation, the financial crisis of 2007-2008 took the wind out of...

UIUC alumni return for career development seminar series organized by graduate students

2018-12-31

Photo of two rows of pink test tubes in an orange test tube holder.

CDB graduate students wanted to open a discussion about career opportunities, particularly outside of academia. They formed a group that included students and postdocs in the summer of 2017, and to date, the group has hosted three alumni with very different and fascinating career paths.

MCB Magazine: Small but Mighty; Tiny Organisms that Make a Big Impact

2018-12-17

Our fall issue of the MCB magazine focuses on the diverse ways in which microbes affect our health.

K.V. Prasanth Lab: Uncovering a novel role of a lncRNA during cell proliferation

2018-09-28

The Prasanth lab has recently published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research titled “MIR100 host gene-encoded lncRNAs regulate cell cycle by modulating the interaction between HuR and its target mRNAs.”

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