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Ag and Energy

Our global environment includes the totality of living and non-living things that make up the world we live in. Work in our Institute advances understanding of how factors such as the changing global climate and human activities have and will continue to impact the environment, ecosystems, and individual species. Research in this area also focuses on the development of sustainable food and biofuel sources, environmental resources we cannot live without.

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 Joseph Irudayaraj      Founder Professor in Bioengineering
Senator Dick Durbin (left center) visits the Bee Research Facility, with Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation Susan Martinis (left), IGB Director Gene Robinson (right center) and entomology professor and co-director of the Illinois Bee Research Facility Adam Dolezal.
With his colleagues at Oregon State University and Utah State University, U. of I. plant biology professor James O’Dwyer developed a model that can predict changes in tree abundance over time. Photo by Michelle Hassel
Abrar Hussain, left, Rebecca Smith and their colleagues mapped the distribution of three tick species across the state of Illinois. They compared this distribution to the incidence of tick-borne diseases in the state. Photo by Fred Zwicky
The CABBI research team and the iBioFAB biofoundry at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB). Front row, Graduate Student Seth Croslow and Research Scientist Jia Dong. Back row, from left: Co-PIs Mathew Hudson, Jonathan Sweedler, Huimin Zhao and Biofoundry Manager Stephan Lane. Credit: Julie Wurth/CABBI
Researchers used the SoyFACE facility at U. of I. to expose soybeans to elevated ozone while excluding rainfall, finding both decreased yield. Photo by Duncan Martin.