The iGEM Team

The iGEM Team

iGEM 2022 Team: Seeking Solution to the Nitrate ProblemEDITOR’S UPDATE: The Illinois team’s “Curli Capture” was awarded a bronze medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2022 competition. The seven-member student team worked to design...
Pollen Power

Pollen Power

Pollen PowerPollen Power is an annual, weeklong summer camp led by CABBI Feedstock Production scientists Andrew Leakey and Elizabeth Ainsworth that provides an opportunity for middle school girls to study plant responses to climate change and sustainable agriculture....
STEAM Academy Visit

STEAM Academy Visit

Franklin STEAM Academy VisitFranklin STEAM Academy is a magnet middle school in Champaign, Ill., and is attended by a diverse population of over 600 students. The school emphasizes science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) curricula, and offers...
Agronomy Day

Agronomy Day

Agronomy Day: Where Science Meets Practice   The CABBI project management team and researchers provided educational information about the center to hundreds of farmers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Agronomy Day. The annual event brings...
World of Genomics

World of Genomics

World of Genomics April 2019The weekend of April 12-14, CABBI researchers joined the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in taking the World of Genomics to the nation’s capital, specifically the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C.It was...