Molecular & Integrative Physiology (MIP)

Dr. Kemper is the lead author on "FXR Acetylation Is Normally Dynamically Regulated by p300 and SIRT1 but Constitutively Elevated in Metabolic Disease States."

Swanlund Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Integrative Physiology Benita Katzenellenbogen has received the 2009 Susan G. Komen for the Cure Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction for her work investigating breast cancer treatments.

Dr. Eric Bolton and Dr. Hee Jung Chung have accepted offers to join the MCB faculty in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. They arrive and begin work in early January.

In keeping with the long-standing and rich tradition of research and training in reproductive biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) has awarded funds to create a Center for Research in Reproduction and...

A new discovery in the newly created Center for Research in Reproduction and Infertility has revealed a previously unknown site of estrogen synthesis.

Phil Best, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, grew up hiking, camping, and hunting in Maryland. Even now, he is happiest diving with humpback whales or biking from Seattle to Portland with his daughter and son-in-law.

In August, 2009, Sinauer Associates Inc. publishes Neural Systems Modeling, by Thomas Anastasio, associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology. The book was selected by the publisher as their featured book for the spring.

Researchers at Illinois led by Claudio Grosman, professor of molecular and integrative physiology have painstakingly mapped the interior of a key component of the relay system that allows the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to get its message across. 

Jongsook Kim Kemper authored a paper on how a molecule is controlled to regulate cholesterol conversion into bile acids.

Yang Xiang and his partners have developed a nanoneedle capable of delivering molecules directly into living cells.