Poster Presentation Practice 2020
CABBI researchers are all asked to capably explain research and science in a way that makes sense to everyone. On Feb. 3, 2020, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students took time to discuss the work they are doing within the Feedstock Production, Conversion, and...
IGB Symposium Celebrates Discovery
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bill Ogren’s discovery of Rubisco oxygenase, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at Illinois will host “Rubisco Oxygenase: 50 Years of Progress and Looking Into the Future.” The symposium features a public lecture...
University of Illinois iGEM Team: Cleaning up our Crops
Herbicides are an integral component of modern farming. However, glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the United States and the main ingredient in formulations like Roundup™, has recently been classified as a probable carcinogen by the International Agency...
iBioFAB: Reimagining our Approach to Synthetic Biology
Across the University of Illinois campus — and at countless other research universities and institutes — biologists toil away at their lab benches, working on tedious tasks such as DNA assembly and microbe engineering. In the concourse research lab in the Carl R....