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Xuenan Mi receives the Graduate Student Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society

Xuenan Mi, a graduate student in Professor Shukla's group, is the winner of the Chemical Computing Group Research Excellence student award from the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding research...

First-atom-level computational model of DNA packaging.

First atom-level structure of packaged viral genome reveals new properties and dynamics

A computational model of the more than 26 million atoms in a DNA-packed viral capsid expands our understanding of virus structure and DNA dynamics, insights that could provide new research avenues and drug targets, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report in the journal Nature....

Govindjee receives Lifetime Achievement Award for photosynthesis research

Biophysics professor emeritus Govindjee is a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. This honor is the result of a lifetime of key contributions to chlorophyll fluorescence induction and photosystem II function. Read more about...

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Illinois Biophysics Hosts the Third Annual Graduate Research & Networking Symposium

The Illinois Biophysics (IB) Third Annual Graduate Research & Networking Symposium was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Illini Union on April 19th, 2022. The student-led event featured research presentations, poster sessions, discussion groups, and valuable opportunities...

Expanded alphabet, precise sequencing make DNA the next data storage solution

Imagine Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1” played on a strand of DNA.This scenario is not as impossible as it seems. Too small to withstand a rhythmic strum or sliding bowstring, DNA is a powerhouse for storing audio files and all kinds of other media.“DNA is nature’s original data storage system. We can...

Haolin Luo receives NCSA's Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Dr. Taras Pogorelov's advisee, Haolin Luo, was awarded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' Fiddler Innovation Fellowship. Luo was one of twenty Illinois undergraduate and graduate students and faculty who were named and recognized during the 2021 Fiddler Innovation Award virtual...

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