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IGB Profile: Kierra Fonner
Ananya Sen
Growing up in Atwood, Illinois, Kierra Fonner didn’t know what career path she wanted to pursue. Although she tried her hand at many things, including law, accounting, nursing…
Woese Research Scholars announced for 2024
Ananya Sen
Sarah Kim and Vanessa Quan have been selected for the Carl R. Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar Program. Over a ten-week period in the summer, they will carry out research…
Gabriel Graham selected for the 2024 Tracy Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Ananya Sen
The Mark Tracy Undergraduate Translational Research Fellowship provides undergraduate students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the opportunity to participate…
IGB Profile - Tina Barbasch
Shelby Lawson
Decoding decisions of parental stickleback fish
Growing up in upstate New York, Tina Barbasch spent countless hours catching salamanders and frogs in her backyard woods…
Justine Story
Ananya Sen
Every year, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is awarded approximately $65 million in sponsored programs funding. The road to getting these awards is often long…
IGB Profile: Darci Edmonson
Ananya Sen
The annual holiday party at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is widely considered to be a must-attend event, and for good reason. All the floors of the main IGB…
IGB Profile: Erinn Dady
Ananya Sen
Over the past few decades, the food industry has increasingly leaned on the concept of molecular gastronomy—approaching cooking from the perspective of chemistry. Erinn Dady’s…
Charles Schroeder
Amber Rose
To solve the problems of today’s society, an interdisciplinary approach to research is necessary. Charles Schroeder(BSD), a professor of materials science and engineering (…
Evaluating a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease using gene editing and fluorescent imaging
Kevin Neumann
Gene editing, brain slicing, and glowing proteins, all in the pursuit of improved treatment for a disease that has befuddled the medical community for years. Methods like this…
