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Gene Robinson Named IGB Director


University of Illinois entomologist and neuroscientist Gene E.

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 resear

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

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.

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.

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 policy

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.

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 F

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 p

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 h