Biochemistry

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...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – I am in Govindjee’s office suite and I don’t know where to look. Govindjee, a professor emeritus of plant biology who goes by the one name only, is a collector. There are layers of history here: artifacts and papers, books and photographs. There also are homemade scientific...

The latest paper by the Shapiro lab looks at the effect of mutations in the estrogen receptor on the growth and spread of breast cancer cells. The findings were published in a paper titled "Estrogen-independent Myc overexpression confers endocrine therapy resistance on breast cancer cells...

A career spanning six decades, over 400 papers, 25 graduate students, and numerous awards surely means a relaxing retirement? Not quite. Govindjee, at 86 years, is still dissecting the mechanisms of photosynthesis. He also collaborates with researchers across the globe to improve crops for food and...

The Zhang lab recently published a paper in Cell Chemical Biology titled "Optogenetic delineation of receptor tyrosine kinase subcircuits in PC12 cell differentiation."

Staphylococcus aureus is on the “most wanted list” for the National Institutes of Health, making it a major villain in the microbial world, said Robert B. Gennis, an MCB biochemistry professor. S. aureus also happens to be on the most wanted list in the lab of Thomas Kehl-Fie, MCB...

Jeremiah Heredia was the first student to join the Procko lab three- and-a-half years ago. Now, the fourth-year biochemistry Ph.D. candidate is an integral member of the group’s research team. Heredia spends most of his time analyzing the interactions between different conformations, or shapes, of...

UIUC Biochemistry Assistant Professor Hong Jin has been selected as an LAS Helen Corley Petit Scholar.

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

New research conducted by biochemists at the University of Illinois has determined how damaged liver cells repair and restore themselves through a signal to return to an early stage of postnatal organ development. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.