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Stephen Long Receives Visiting Professorship at Oxford
Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the departments of crop sciences and plant biology, has been appointed to the Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship in the…
Rachel Whitaker Receives Allen Distinguished Investigator Award
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group today announced five new Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) awards to researchers conducting pioneering research in epigenetics, aging,…
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Supports Crops in Silico
Olivia Harris
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has awarded Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of…
New Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar
Emily Scott
Since his freshman year of college, Yuhao Min has been passionate about research.
Now a rising senior at the University of Illinois, he’s getting to pursue what he loves…
World of Genomics brings IGB research to Chicago
Kathryne Metcalf
From May 18th to 20th in Chicago, over 15,000 visitors experienced the World of Genomics at the Field Museum of Natural History, a three-day event presented by the Carl R.…
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Ruby Mendenhall
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Assistant Professor of Nutrition (ONC-PM) and Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning,…
Social experience tweaks genome function, behavior
Claudia Lutz
Mice have a reputation for timidity. Yet when confronted with an unfamiliar peer, a mouse may respond by rearing, chasing, grappling, and biting—and come away with altered…
World of Genomics brings IGB research to Chicago
Kathryne Metcalf.
From May 18th to 20th in Chicago, over 10,000 visitors experienced the World of Genomics at the Field Museum of Natural History, a three-day event presented by the Carl R.…
New capabilities for genome-wide engineering of yeast
Claudia Lutz.
Modified soybeans yield more in future climate conditions
Claire Benjamin.