We create new enabling technologies, including quantitative, live-cell imaging, and optogenetics, to observe, modulate, restore, and enhance cell functions.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Thrilled to officially welcome cancer researcher Dr. Diana Ranoa to our school as an assistant professor of biochemistry!
Learn more about Dr. Ranoa and the field of immuno-oncology: go.mcb.illinois.edu/ranoa
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A team of researchers including @ZhangLab1 combined techniques in biochemistry, cell biology, and live cell imaging to determine the trafficking pathway used by Arc protein to communicate with other cells.
go.mcb.illinois.edu/arc
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Biochemistry prof Kai Zhang @ZhangLab1 will use Minflux super-resolution imaging to investigate assembly and interactions between supra molecular complex and organelles in cells.
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8 cross-disciplinary teams will receive awards in the final year of #Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, sponsored by RCSA, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @AllenInstitute & Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, with Walder Foundation support. bit.ly/3OHarZ7
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Happy to share that we received a #Scialog award.
Very excited about this project with @ZhangLab1
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8 cross-disciplinary teams will receive awards in the final year of #Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, sponsored by RCSA, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @AllenInstitute & Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, with Walder Foundation support. bit.ly/3OHarZ7
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Working on a Current Opinion on light-activated receptors and checked what's new in @ZhangLab1; wow you have been productive, Kai!
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Lab's first @NIH grant was awarded! Exciting collaboration with @HristovaLabJHU, @ZhangLab1, and the Rienstra Lab. Grateful to our teams and all the supporters! @ChemistryUIUC @MCB_Illinois @LASillinois @NCSAatIllinois @BeckmanInst @UofIResearch @nmrfam @HopkinsEngineer @NIGMS
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NEW: #ILLINOIS researchers are helping us understand a key signaling pathway in embryo development, tissue maintenance, and cancer genesis.
More about the method developed by @ZhangLab1 & Yang lab of @VetMedIllinois:
news.illinois.edu/view/6367/…
Bonus: beautiful science art below!
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UIUC Biochemistry faculty Kai Zhang @Zhanglab1 received funding from Research Corporation for Science Advance @RCSA1 Microbiome, Neurobiology, and Disease Scialog, @AllenInstitute, and the Cottrell Foundation!"
rescorp.org/news/2021/06/six…
#Illinois #IllinoisResearch #microbiome
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Congratulations to Maayan Levy @MaayanLevy_Lab @PennMicro; Ashley Ross @RossLabUC @UcChem; and Kai Zhang @ZhangLab1 @UIUC_Biochem @MCB_Illinois!
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RCSA, @AllenInstitute & the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation announce awards totaling $770,000 to six multidisciplinary teams from the United States and Canada. Each of the 14 individual researchers will receive $55,000. bit.ly/3qfExFa
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Spirited discussions today at #Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease centered on how to advance our understanding of the gut-brain axis and the roles microbiota play in neurodegenerative disorders.
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We are on the cover of Nanoscale Issue 9. Congrats @ParinazFathi and all the authors. Thank you @Ella_Maru for designing such a beatiful cover!! You always make stunning covers for us!!
@BIOENGatIL @UMBC_CBEE @UMBC @UMBaltimore
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Thank you to all our participants for the Bake your Research competition! Get your votes in for your favorite bake: forms.gle/KwsXFMDYaqEELS8CA
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Congratulations @ParinazFathi and all the co-authors for the recent article in @nanoscale_rsc !! @BIOENGatIL @UMBaltimore @UMBC
UV-trained and metal-enhanced fluorescence of biliverdin and biliverdin nanoparticles - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Shoutout to co-authors on twitter: @AymanRoslend, @Kritika1794 , @MoitraParikshit, @ZhangLab1, and corresponding author @ProfDipanjanPan! It all started with a weird observation... (thread)
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It’s not #FluorescenceFriday yet but I’m excited to share that our paper “UV-trained and Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of #Biliverdin and Biliverdin Nanoparticles” has been published! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
@nanoscale_rsc @BIOENGatIL @UIUC_Biochem @TiMeUIUC @ChemistryUIUC
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