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Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM) Request for Proposals
The Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM), established in a partnership between Abbott and the University of Illinois, requests proposals in a Grand Challenge…
Team discovers how a cancer-causing bacterium spurs cell death
Researchers report they have figured out how the cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori attacks a cell’s energy infrastructure, sparking a series of events in the cell…
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…
Two IGB Faculty Members named University Scholars
Paul Kenis and James Slauch have been named as University Scholars, a program created to recognize the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.
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Defining “Renewability” a Challenge for Laws and Regulation
Jody Endres, the Senior Regulatory associate at the University of Illinois’ Energy Biosciences Institute, is the author of a recently published paper on key issues facing…
New sensors streamline detection of estrogenic compounds
Researchers have engineered new sensors that fluoresce in the presence of compounds that interact with estrogen receptors in human cells. The sensors detect natural or human-…
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…
Bruce Schatz : Building Healthcare Solutions
University of Illinois professor Bruce Schatz, a faculty member at the Institute for Genomic Biology, has co-authored a groundbreaking book on Health Informatics, based on his…
IGB faculty member selected as Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study
Andrew Leakey, a member of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change theme at IGB, was recently selected as a Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study. …
Researchers Map Minority Microbes in the Colon
They make up less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the microbes that live in the colon, but the bacteria and archaea that sop up hydrogen in the gut are fundamental to colon…
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…
Genetic Study Offers Insight into the Social Life of Bees
Most people have trouble telling them apart, but bumble bees, honey bees, stingless bees and solitary bees have home lives that are as different from one another as a monarch’s…