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Tajkhorshid Lab: Battling antimicrobial resistance
Each year, at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using computer modeling, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sandia National Laboratories are...
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Painting the cell with different colors: A collaborative paper from the labs of Kai Zhang and Dipanjan Pan
The Zhang and Pan labs recently published a joint paper in Nanoscale titled “Carbon dots with induced surface oxidation permits imaging at single-particle level for intracellular studies.”
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RNA-Binding protein, Mov10, is key to both survival and brain function
A study led by Dr. Geena Skariah, a recent Neuroscience graduate of the Ceman lab in Cell and Developmental Biology, and current postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, revealed the importance of the protein Mov10 (Moloney leukemia virus 10) in neurological development in animals....
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MCB Magazine: Everyone has a cancer story: That's why we do the research
View the latest edition of MCB Magazine here.
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Study shows how bacteria guide electron flow for efficient energy generation
Gennis Lab: Researchers determined the structure of a supercomplex of enzymes many bacteria use to generate energy.
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Biochemistry's Second Annual Award Symposium
The Department of Biochemistry held its second annual graduate student award symposium on Friday, April 6th.
The symposium featured two speakers who received awards: Dr. Harris, the recipient of the 2017 Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, and William Arnold, who...
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Engineering T cells to attack cancer
The Kranz lab and colleagues have recently publish a trio of papers that describe the engineering of receptors that can mediate specific and potent destruction of cancers by T cells.
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Structural and computational analyses provide the first view of an activated AMPA receptor. Findings published by the Tajkhorshid and Gouaux labs in Cell.
Using molecular dynamics simulations, the Tajkhorshid lab computationally modeled the complete structure of the active AMPA receptor with hydrated ions moving through an open pore. Together these findings, published in Cell, show how AMPA receptor regulatory proteins enhance the potency of agonists...
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Employing the Help of the BHPI Molecule to Boost Anti-Cancer Drug Treatments
For decades, MCB and the University of Illinois have been at the forefront of understanding the role of estrogen and the estrogen receptor (ER) in causing breast cancer. This is essential work: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, affecting roughly one in eight women in the...
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The Grosman and Tajkhorshid labs collaborate on "Chasing the open-state structure of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels"
The Grosman and Tajkhorshid labs collaborate on "Chasing the open-state structure of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels." Their findings are presented as the cover story in the December Issue of The Journal of General Physiology.