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Fetal exposure to PCBs affects hearing health later in life
By Jeni Bushman | Published on June 5, 2023 | Beckman Institute Music, mice, and microscopic imaging combine to provide new insight into the effects of environmental chemicals on hearing loss. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
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WormAtlas expanding beyond C. elegans with support from NIH
from ACES News, by Lauren Quinn, March 7, 2023 URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also known as...
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Recently Published: Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT)
Abstract Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics technologies such as MERFISH offer snapshots of cellular processes in unprecedented detail, but new analytic tools are needed to realize their full potential. We present InSTAnT, a computational toolkit for extracting molecular relationships from...
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Hands-free wheelchair prototype achieves major milestone
Posted on News by Mechanical Science & Engineering In 2020, collaborators from across the University of Illinois campus received a $1.5...
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Gene Robinson: Sequencing Genomes, Bees, and Evolution | The UIUC Talkshow #31
The UIUC Talkshow #31 with Juan David Campolargo and Aaryaman Patel - interviewing Dr. Gene Robinson Gene Robinson is the Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research uses bees to understand the...
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Reading for pleasure strengthens memory in older adults
With help from the Champaign Public Library, Beckman researchers led by Professor Liz Stine-Morrow demonstrated that regular, engaged leisure reading can...
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Pengfei Song, Assistant Professor
Pengfei Song is an assistant professor and Y.T. Lo Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who specializes in ultrasound imaging. Song first came across ultrasound while pursuing his BS in Biomedical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. “There was this professor with some research projects focused on using MATLAB to perform image reconstruction,” he recalled. “I got really interested in that project, so I learned more about medical and ultrasound imaging.” Song then followed this interest in ultrasound from China to the United States,...

NSP Alumna Kelsey Hassevoort receives 2022 NORDP Rising Star Award
Join us in congratulating IHSI research development manager and Neuroscience Program alumna, Dr. Kelsey Hassevoort, who recently received the 2022 Rising Star Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) for her outstanding, early career contributions to the organization and her strong potential for future contributions to the field of research development. “I’m honored to...