Posted
6.29.2009
Professor Satish Nair has published a paper in Nature
this month entitled "An unusual carbon–carbon bond cleavage reaction
during phosphinothricin biosynthesis"
Posted
6.29.2009
Professor Aleksei Aksimentiev has joined the Biophysics
faculty.
Posted 6.29.2009
Check out the exciting
new Biophysics
K-12 Outreach program organized by Biophysics students!
Posted
11.13.2008
Professor Martin Gruebele has been awarded the Raymond
and Beverly Sackler
International Prize in Biophysics for 2008.
Posted
10.27.2008
Emeritus Professor Govindjee, one of the first graduates
of the Biophysics Program back in 1960 (thesis advisor: Eugene I. Rabinowitch),
was awarded the University of Illinois LAS Achievement Award on October 10th.
Posted 8.07.2008
Professor Emad Tajkhorshid
and graduate student Yi Wang were the first to have simulated the binding
of a molecule to a protein. Their findings are published in the July issue of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.news.uiuc.edu/NEWS/08/0630atp.html).
Posted 5.29.2008
Bobby R. Scott, Biophysics alum ('74) and Senior Scientist at
the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, NM, has received the
International Dose-Response Society 2008 award for Outstanding Leadership in the
Field of Dose-Response. Dr. Scott, left, is shown receiving his award.
Posted
4.10.2008
Professor Claudio Grosman's article "Pore-opening
mechanism of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor evinced by proton transfer"
is featured in the March 2008 edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v15/n4/abs/nsmb.1407.html
Professor
Huimin Zhao has been recognized as a 2008 University
Scholar by the University of Illinois. This award is given to the University's
most talented scholars, teachers, and researchers for their excellence.
Posted
2.7.2008
This month's feature article in Experimental Biology and Medicine,
entitled "Engineering chimeric polypeptides to illuminate cellular redox states",
is co-authored by Biophysics graduate student Bryan Spring and
advisor Bob Clegg, in conjunction with others at the U of I Institute
of Genomic Biology. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/sfeb-ecp012308.php
Posted
Previously
Nobel Laureate (in
Medicine 2003) and Biophysics Professor Paul
Lauterbur passed away at his home on March 27, 2007. He shared his Nobel
Prize for the discovery of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
