Skip to main content

where science meets society

Where Science Meets Society

Learn More About IGB

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is an innovative research institute using cutting-edge genomic practices to tackle large-scale global challenges currently facing humanity.

Food security for a growing population. Effective therapeutic drugs and antibiotics. Automated synthesis of new molecules and proteins. Using a team-based, collaborative science approach, researchers at the IGB are addressing these and other complex issues. Our main areas of research below are each supported by our strong commitment to fundamental science – the pursuit of discovery.

Health & Wellness

Health +
Wellness

How the genome enhances, affects, or disrupts physical and mental wellbeing.

Learn More

Technology & Socety

Tech +
Society

Advancing our capability to shape the world and capacity to understand each other.

Learn More

Agriculture & Energy

Ag +
Energy

Sustainably feeding and fueling a planet impacted by a changing global climate.

Learn More

Outreach & Public Engagement

Outreach &
Public Engagement

Encouraging the public to understand how genomics affects daily life and society.

Learn More

Roots of Genomics installation at IGB

Spotlight

Roots of Genomics installation at IGB

Learn more

Featured Stories

World of Genomics Returns to Chicago
Anubhav Basu, left, graduate student and first author of the paper with Professor of Microbiology Cari Vanderpool
Sara Pedron Haba and Brendan Harley published new research with import for glioblastoma treatment.
Jeff Chen
Anthropologist Jennifer Raff to give IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics
The lions’ teeth had been damaged during their lifetimes. Study co-author Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth.  Photo Z94320 courtesy Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago