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Improving Drought-Resistance of Biofuel Grasses
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a five-year, $12.1 million grant to a multi-institutional effort to develop drought-resistant grasses for use in biofuels. The Donald…
Alison Bell receives Animal Behavior Society Young Investigator Award
Alison Bell, a University of Illinois animal biology professor and affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology, is the recipient of the 2012 Young Investigator Award from…
Evaluation of Microscopy Techniques May Help Scientists to Better Understand Ancient Plants
In a paper published in PLoS ONE, scientists at the University of Illinois released their findings on what microscopy techniques are needed to identify the shape and texture of…
Lessons from Epigenome Evolution: Exploring the epigenome’s regulatory function
Exploring the epigenome’s regulatory function
The sequencing of the human genome has provided a wealth of genetic information, yet the goal of understanding the function…
IGB Proof of Concept Funding
The Institute for Genomic Biology, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Proof of Concept (…
Chemical Incident on May 28th
We'd like to thank our community over the concern of a minor chemical spill in one of our labs in the IGB research building on May 28th. We are taking this opportunity to…
Maps of miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution
Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to a prominent grass family that includes corn, sorghum…
H. Rex Gaskins elected President-elect of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine
Founded in 1903, the SEBM is a not-for-profit scientific society formed to promote investigation in the biomedical sciences by encouraging and facilitating interchange of…
Harris Lewin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Harris Lewin has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), it was announced today. Lewin, an emeritus faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences and…
Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images
Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of…
New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier
Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an…
Team discovers how bacteria resist a 'Trojan horse' antibiotic
A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common “housekeeping” enzyme…