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…
G. William Arends Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology
William Metcalf, Professor of Microbiology, leader of the Mining Microbial Genomes research theme and member of the EBI, was recently selected by the University of Illinois as…
Bruce Fouke
Bruce Fouke (Biocomplexity, Energy Biosciences Institute) received the 2013 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2013 LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence…
Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award
Graduate student Brandon Burkhart, chemical biology, who is a member of Professor Doug Mitchell's lab was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National…
Digging Down Below the Tree of Life
Originally published at www.astrobio.net
A family tree unites a diverse group of individuals that all carry genetic vestiges from a single common ancestor at the base of…
Study: Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein
While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual biochemistry…
New Supercomputer to Aid Genomics Research
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) a highly parallel shared memory supercomputer named Ember.…
Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson, IGB Director, has been elected by the Animal Behavior Society as the 2013 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist. One of the Society's most important marks of…
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…