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Genome Day a great success!
Thank you to everyone who attended Genome Day, a day of learning about genomes, genes, DNA, and evolution at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in Champaign on Saturday,…
Grant Establishes Bioinformatics Research Network in Africa
Victor Jongeneel, director of the High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio) program and affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the National Center for…
Grant Establishes a Pan-Continental Bioinformatics Network in Africa
Victor Jongeneel, director of the High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio) program at the University of Illinois, is a key participant in a grant awarded by the Human…
Join us for Genome Day on November 3rd at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum
Join the IGB for for a day of learning about genomes, genes, DNA, and evolution at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in Champaign on Saturday, November 3, 2012.
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2012 Proof of Concept Initiative Recipients Announced
The Institute for Genomic Biology is happy to announce the award recipients in the 2012 IGB Proof of Concept (POC) Initiative. There is a well-known funding gap between…
5-Year NASA-Funded Research Grant Awarded
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected as one of five new research teams joining the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) to study the origin and…
Two IGB Members named University Scholars
Elizabeth Ainsworth and Phillip Newmark have been named as University Scholars, a program created to recognize the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers…
IGB Faculty Member Recognized with NIH New Innovator Award
Sua Myong, an assistant professor of Bioengineering, is the recipient of a 2012 NIH Director's New Innovator Award.
Myong, who is a faculty member of the Cellular…