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Online tool speeds response to elephant poaching by tracing ivory to source

Diana Yates

A new tool uses an interactive database of geographic and genetic information to help authorities quickly identify where the confiscated tusks of African elephants were…

LAS Dean's Distinguished Lecture with IGB Director

Samantha Boyle

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has established the LAS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture to provide wider opportunity for people to hear from faculty wh

Kleinmuntz Center Inaugural Year


In its inaugural year of operation, the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society

Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks

Diana Yates

By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of metabolism.

Study provides framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution

Alan Flurry, University of Georgia, Athens, and Katie Willis, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Gene sequences for more than 1100 plant species have been released by an international consortium of nearly 200 plant scientists, the culmination of a nine-year research…

Goldenfeld co-leads initiative tackling 'last great problem of classical physics'

Siv Schwink

The rich complexity of turbulence—with its wide range of length and time scales—poses a major challenge to the development of predictive models based on fluid dynamics.

University of Illinois announces Center for Digital Agriculture


The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the creation of the Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA), a new center that brin

IGB forms external advisory Leadership Council


The IGB undergoes regular, external review from leaders in academia, industry, and government to assess all aspects of the institute.

Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn

Diana Yates

Like atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide, ground-level ozone is on the rise.

Goldenfeld receives Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society

Siv Schwink

Swanlund Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld (BCXT lead/CGRH/GNDP)

Pineapple genome sequences hint at plant domestication in single step

Claudia Lutz

As their Latin name indicates, pineapples are truly “excellent fruits”—and thanks to a freshly completed genome sequencing project, researchers have gained a new understanding…

Fish fathers exhibit signatures of “baby brain” that may aid parental behavior

Claudia Lutz

Many new parents are familiar with terms like “baby brain” or “mommy brain” that hint at an unavoidable decline in cognitive function associated with the hormonal changes of…