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New grant to study fish genomics, behavior

Kathryne Metcalf.

The three-spined stickleback is a funny sort of a fish.

Study identifies key player in heart enlargement

Steph Adams.

The heart is a dynamic muscle that grows and shrinks in response to stressors such as exercise and disease.

New 3D model predicts best planting practices for farmers

Claire Benjamin.

As farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind: How many plants germinated per acre? How does altering row spacing affect my yields?

Report evaluates computational genomics skills of African scientists

Emily Scott.

A new paper co-authored by Illinois and African scientists describes how an African bioinformatics network tested researchers’ ability to perform computational genomics tasks…

Stephen Long Receives Visiting Professorship at Oxford


Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the departments of crop sciences and plant biology, has been appointed to the Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship in the…

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Supports Crops in Silico

Olivia Harris

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has awarded Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of…

New Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar

Emily Scott

Since his freshman year of college, Yuhao Min has been passionate about research.

World of Genomics brings IGB research to Chicago

Kathryne Metcalf

From May 18th to 20th in Chicago, over 15,000 visitors experienced the World of Genomics at the Field Museum of Natural History, a three-day event presented by the Carl R.

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Ruby Mendenhall


Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Assistant Professor of Nutrition (ONC-PM) and Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning,…

Social experience tweaks genome function, behavior

Claudia Lutz

Mice have a reputation for timidity.