Organization profile

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to transformative research and technology in life sciences using team-based strategies to tackle grand societal challenges. Members conduct genomic research in the areas of food security, energy, health, technology, and environmental conservation within collaborative research themes. These themes draw faculty from many schools and departments, including biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, sociology, and business, who remain an integral part of their home departments while also pursuing research at the IGB.

In each theme, the common goal of a particular grand challenge in research—developing more effective cancer therapeutics, creating more efficient and robust food and fuel crops, uncovering the origins of life—creates synergy among diverse groups of scientists. Our work ranges from basic research that expands the horizons of human knowledge to applied research that builds on this foundational knowledge to create new technologies. The IGB’s complement of research themes is dynamic, adapting to new discoveries, methods, and needs.

Fingerprint The Elsevier Fingerprint Engine mines the text of the experts' scholarly documents – publication abstracts, awards, project summaries, patents, and other sources – to create an index of weighted terms which defines the text, known as a Fingerprint. By aggregating and comparing Fingerprints, the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine enables users to look beyond metadata and expose valuable connections among people, research units, publications, and ideas.

Genes Medicine & Life Sciences

Proteins Medicine & Life Sciences

Genome Medicine & Life Sciences

Enzymes Medicine & Life Sciences

Peptides Medicine & Life Sciences

Bees Medicine & Life Sciences

Escherichia coli Medicine & Life Sciences

Zea mays Medicine & Life Sciences

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Profiles

Elizabeth Ainsworth

Plant Biology - Associate Professor
Crop Sciences - Associate Professor, USDA Agricultural Research Service Scientist
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology - Institute Affiliate

Person: Academic

Aleksei Aksimentiev

aksiment@illinois.edu

Physics - Professor
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - Professor
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology - Affiliate
Bioengineering - Professor
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology - Professor

Person: Academic

Brian F Allan

ballan@illinois.edu

Entomology - Associate Professor
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - Associate Professor
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology - Affiliate

Person: Academic

Research Output 1971 2019

Ammonia flux measurements above a corn canopy using relaxed eddy accumulation and a flux gradient system

Nelson, A. J., Lichiheb, N., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Rood, M. J., Heuer, M., Myles, L. T., Joo, E., Miller, J. & Bernacchi, C., Jan 15 2019, In : Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 264, p. 104-113 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

flux measurement

eddy

ammonia

maize

canopy

Bioinspired glycosaminoglycan hydrogels via click chemistry for 3D dynamic cell encapsulation

Kuang, L., Damayanti, N. P., Jiang, C., Fei, X., Liu, W., Narayanan, N., Irudayaraj, J. M. K., Campanella, O. & Deng, M., Feb 5 2019, In : Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 136, 5, 47212.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Hydrogels

Hydrogel

Glycosaminoglycans

Encapsulation

Gelation

Broccoli consumption affects the human gastrointestinal microbiota

Kaczmarek, J. L., Liu, X., Charron, C. S., Novotny, J. A., Jeffery, E. H., Seifried, H. E., Ross, S. A., Miller, M. J., Swanson, K. S. & Holscher, H. D., Jan 1 2019, In : Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 63, p. 27-34 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Brassica

Glucosinolates

Vegetables

Phytochemicals

Nutrition

Datasets

Data from: Embryogenesis in the plant parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines is independent of host-derived stimulation

Thapa, S. (Creator), Patel, J. A. (Creator), Reuter-Carlson, U. (Creator), Schroeder, N. E. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017

DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-6946735_V2

Dataset

Dataset for Evaluation of DeNitrification DeComposition Model for Estimating Ammonia Fluxes from Chemical Fertilizer Application

Balasubramanian, S. (Creator), Nelson, A. J. (Creator), Koloutsou-Vakakis, S. (Creator), Lin, J. (Creator), Rood, M. J. (Creator), Myles, L. (Creator), Bernacchi, C. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jun 6 2018

DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-3773381_V1

Dataset