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IGB Director to Chair 2014 NAKFI Conference on Social Behavior
IGB Director Gene Robinson will lead efforts to plan conference and award $1M in seed grants.
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Funds New Research Focus at IGB
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has awarded a $2 million grant to the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Team finds gene that helps honey bees find flowers
Honey bees don’t start out knowing how to find flowers or even how to get around outside the hive.
Cradle turns smartphone into handheld biosensor
Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones.
Illinois Biophysicists Measure Mechanism that Determines Fate of Living Cells
Cells in the human body do not function in isolation.
Enzyme Function Initiative Publishes Seminal Paper in PNAS
The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI), one of the largest collaborative projects hosted at the IGB, has published a seminal paper in PNAS entitled "Prediction of function for the
Researchers Work to Put Stem Cells in Their Place
Hyunjoon Kong, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and member of the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering research theme,
University of Illinois Professor Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Gutgsell Endowed Professor Stephen P. Long to be member of UK’s National Academy of Science
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Awarded
Saurabh Sinha, Associate Professor of Computer Science and member of the Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity research theme, has been selected for the Dean's