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William Bruce, Caroline Johnson, and Keith Whitlock selected for Mayo Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
William Bruce, Caroline Johnson, and Keith Whitlock, outstanding students from the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, have been selected for three of the five slots specifically reserved for University of Illinois students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program at the...
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The unanticipated complexity of the selectivity-filter glutamates of nicotinic receptors
In a new finding published in Nature Chemical Biology, Research Scientist Gisela Cymes and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, and Neuroscience Claudio Grosman applied single-molecule electrophysiology to elucidate the properties of the ring of acidic side...
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IN OBESITY, A MICRO-RNA CAUSES METABOLIC PROBLEMS
A team including corresponding author Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Jongsook Kim Kemper has identified a key molecular player in a chain of events in the body that can lead to fatty liver disease, Type II diabetes and other metabolic abnormalities associated with...
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Circadian Rhythm of Redox State Regulates Excitability in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neurons
Although cellular metabolic (redox) state has long been associated with a housekeeping role, recent research from a team lead by Martha Gillette, and including the Lee Cox and Jonathan Sweedler groups, provides new insights on cellular redox states, linking them to the intrinsic daily (circadian)...
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Circadian Rhythm of Redox State Regulates Excitability in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neurons
Tongfei Wang, Gubbi Govindaiah, Liana Artinian, and Charles Cox of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology are co-authors of a new paper in Sciencexpress. Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Martha Gillette is corresponding author.
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Tyler Moran selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award
Tyler Moran, Ph.D., who completed his thesis in the lab of Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Lori Raetzman, was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award.
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Mutations that stabilize the open state of the <em>Erwinia chrisanthemi</em> ligand-gated ion channel fail to change the conformation of the pore domain in crystals
Corresponding author Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Claudio Grosman, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair, and colleagues have published new work in PNAS.
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Msx Homeobox Genes Critically Regulate Embryo Implantation
A unique signaling network regulated by the homeobox transcription factors MSX1 and MSX2 in the mouse uterus critically controls female fertility.
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Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
In a new study, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Rhanor Gillette reports on a circuit in the brain of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea.
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Lori Raetzman Selected to Present Anita Payne Lecture
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience Lori Raetzman has been selected to present the Anita Payne New Perspectives in Reproductive Biology Lecture at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR).