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Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Jason Wang
Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson
Jason Wang, a graduate student in the Kong (GNDP/M-CELS) lab, won third place in the 2022 Young Innovator program and received $5000 to advance his proposal. He will develop a…
Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Skye Shepard
Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson
Skye Shepherd is a graduate student in the Cunningham (CGD/MMG) group, where she develops new detection tools for proteins that can be used to identify diseases including…
Young Innovator Program Spotlight: Alejandra Zeballos
Ananya Sen, Shelby Lawson
Alejandra Zeballos works on creating new therapies for neurological disorders. She is developing a platform that will select virus-based vectors that can deliver DNA-based…
Kathy Millage
Ananya Sen
Kathy Millage is an Office Administrator at the IGB.
Walking into the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology can be intimidating. If you’re a researcher, the main…
Erik Nelson: A milestone in my career
Christine des Garennes
Several days following the Federal Drug Administration’s approval of a new cancer drug, Erik Nelson (ACPP) was still processing the news.
“It hasn’t sunk in yet that…
Colby Behrens
Shelby Lawson
It would be challenging to find someone who became interested in animal behavior at a younger age than Colby Behrens, a current PhD candidate in the Evolution, Ecology, and…
IGB Profile: Victoria Kramer
Ananya Sen
If you walked into the RIPE HTPF, located on the southern part of the Illinois campus, the first thing you would notice is the never-ending rows of plants. At any given time,…
Remembering Professor Gabriel Popescu
Gabriel Popescu (M-CELS), the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, died on June 16, 2022, while visiting his hometown Prundu,…
Remembering Carl Woese
Professor of microbiology and a founding member of the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology, Carl Woese was a giant among scientists. Best known for his discovery of…
Carl R. Woese: 1928 – 2012
Carl R. Woese, who overturned one of the major dogmas of biology with the discovery of Archaea, the third domain of life, passed away following complications from pancreatic…
Carl R. Woese Remembrances
Carl R. Woese, who overturned one of the major dogmas of biology with the discovery of Archaea, the third domain of life, passed away following complications from pancreatic…
Rachel Whitaker: Geography influences microbe genetic diversity
Most microbiologists sequence genes in order to determine what a given gene does. Rachel Whitaker, a member of the biocomplexity theme at IGB and assistant professor of…