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 1.31.2008
Professor Steve Sligar is the new Director of
the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Professor Andy Belmont is the new Head of the department
of Cell & Developmental Biology.
Professor Phil Best is an Associate Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Posted 11.1.2007
Four Biophysics faculty members, John Gerlt, Yi Lu, Scott Silverman,
and Greg Timp, have been selected as American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellows for 2007.
Posted 8.6.2007
Professor Steve Sligar has been named as a Fellow
of the Biophysics Society for 2008 for his work in biophysics.
This is the 8th year such an honor has been awarded, and those
chosen are being honored for their contributions to the expansion
of the field of biophysics.
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).
