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Illinois chemist named top young innovator


Chemistry professor and IGB affiliate Ryan C. Bailey has been chosen as one of the world’s top young innovators by Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology magazine.…

Record high impact ratings for journals Global Change Biology and GCB Bioenergy


Global Change Biology (GCB) and its sister journal GCB Bioenergy received record high impact ratings from the Institute for Scientific Information last month. Edited by Deputy…

Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Management Grads Share Their Experience


The Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Management (CEM) is a program for entrepreneurially minded MD students, DVM students, PhD students, and Post-Doctoral Associates in…

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…