We create new enabling technologies, including quantitative, live-cell imaging, and optogenetics, to observe, modulate, restore, and enhance cell functions.
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Very excited to learn that optogenetics has been awarded to Nobel Prize. This enabling technology has transformed light from an observatory to a modulatory tool for biological studies, and also one that has shaped my own research career in the past decade! Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel.
For those less familiar with the field: optogenetics lets us use pulses of light to turn specific proteins, and entire biological processes, on and off with extraordinary precision in time and space. It's changed how we study the brain, signaling pathways, and now holds real promise for medicine.
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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.”
The Cancer Center at Illinois @CancerCenterIL has earned National Cancer Institute designation as a Basic Cancer Center, one of eight in the country and the first of its kind in nearly 40 years. Very proud to be part of this historical moment!
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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
Our first paper on Arc capsid assembly is online now! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… Good job team. Thanks to all our collaborators and also MCB for reporting the work: mcb.illinois.edu/news/2024-0…
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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.
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We found that PI3P mediates Arc trafficking between cells. Congratulations, Kritika, on publishing our first paper on Arc! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
We published our first paper on optogenetic induction of cell death. Good job, TJ!
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Thanks, UIUC News Bureau, for the report!
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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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The first protein structure solved by NMR was published in JMB back in 1985!
Just came back from my first in-person editorial board meeting for JMB at San Diego. It is great to finally meet all the great colleagues! Peter, thanks for the 33 years of leadership!
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First edited book with Dr. Yubin Zhou on opsin-free optogenetics. Thank you all contributing authors! Hope to catch up with everyone in person soon.
