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Alison Bell receives Animal Behavior Society Young Investigator Award
Alison Bell, a University of Illinois animal biology professor and affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology, is the recipient of the 2012 Young Investigator Award from…
H. Rex Gaskins elected President-elect of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine
Founded in 1903, the SEBM is a not-for-profit scientific society formed to promote investigation in the biomedical sciences by encouraging and facilitating interchange of…
Harris Lewin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Harris Lewin has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), it was announced today. Lewin, an emeritus faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences and…
Lemelson-MIT $30,000 Illinois Student Prize Finalist
The University of Illinois has always been an incubator for innovation and entrepreneurship. Students and faculty alike have invented products, created new processes and…
Institute for Genomic Biology, School of Integrative Biology receive major NSF training grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) and the School of Integrative Biology a $3.2 million training grant. NSF's Integrative…
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowships Awarded
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Nhat Trinh from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a 2011 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research…
Two IGB Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
James Slauch and Wilfred van der Donk have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. They are among the 78 microbiologists chosen by their peers for…
IGB Announces Proof of Concept Awards
The Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) and the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) at the University of Illinois have launched a Proof of Concept Award Program…
May Berenbaum to Receive 2011 Tyler Prize
University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum will receive the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an international award that…
Jian Ma receives CAREER award for large-scale Genomic Studies
Jian Ma, an assistant professor in bioengineering and a member of the Cellular Decision Making in Cancer Research Theme at the Institute for Genomic Biology, has been awarded a…
IGB Director Awarded 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture
IGB Director Harris Lewin is a recipient of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. He shares the prize with James R. Cook, of Washington State University.
The $100,000 Wolf…
Researchers Awarded $33.9 Million Grant to Study Enzyme Functions
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt has received a five-year, $33.9 million grant from the National Institutes of…