NRES professor Kaiyu Guan receives AGU Macelwane Medal, becomes AGU fellow
Kaiyu Guan, Founding Director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) and a Blue Waters Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, has received the prestigious James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
ER-positive breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in African American, white women
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer compared with non-Hispanic white women. The scientists also identified a protein – negative elongation factor complex E – that was linked with higher mortality rates among African American women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.
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Joana Colussi shares her expertise on global agribusiness
How do you think you would fare if you moved to a new country a month before the pandemic to start on a new career track? Joana Colussi worked as reporter in her home country of Brazil, covering Brazilian agriculture, when she decided she wanted to do more and further her education.
U.S.-German Forum on the Future of Agriculture publishes "Recommendations on Climate for the National Level and Transatlantic Cooperation”
Given their shared values, common interests, and influential agricultural sectors, Germany and the United States are natural collaborators to ensure food security and the long-term viability of the agricultural sector.
Ireland’s Claire Mc Cormack is first visiting global agricultural journalist
Irish agricultural journalist and media researcher Claire Mc Cormack has been named the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first Visiting Global Agricultural Journalist.
Bringing cells to life … and to Minecraft: $30 million NSF grant to support whole-cell modeling
Beckman researchers and collaborators, including Eric Morgan of NRES and ALEC, received $30 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology. The center will develop whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function and share that knowledge with diverse communities through the popular computer game Minecraft.
Illinois project looks to glycogen to explain pregnancy loss, infertility
URBANA, Ill. — When we eat sugar, a portion of it is stored as glycogen in our liver and muscles, where it can be quickly metabolized to glucose for bursts of energy.
Professor emeritus and former associate dean Howard Wakeland has died
Former associate dean of engineering and faculty in agricultural and biological engineering Howard L. Wakeland died Aug.