New Arrivals
Faculty
- Lee Deville joins the IGB
- Jian Ma joins the IGB
- Douglas Mitchell joins the IGB
- John Gerlt joins the IGB
- John Cronan joins the IGB
Professor Lee DeVille has joined the Biocomplexity Research Theme as an affiliate member. He joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He received his B.S. from Tulane University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Boston University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2001, he became a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before moving to the Courant Institute at New York University in 2004.
Professor Jian Ma has joined the Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Research Theme as an affiliate member. He joined the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor in August 2009. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fundan University in Shanghai, China. In 2006, Professor Ma received his Ph.D. from Penn State University, and then became a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Professor David Haussler at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and engineering, genomics, and evolutionary biology.
Douglas Mitchell joins the IGB
Professor Doug Mitchell has joined the Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics Research Theme as a full member. He joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor in August 2009. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006 under the direction of Michael Marletta at the University of California, Berkeley. For postdoctoral studies, he worked with Jack Dixon at the University of California, San Diego. Doug's research interests center around better understanding the molecular underpinnings of bacterial virulence.
Professor John Gerlt has joined the Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics Research Theme as a full faculty member. He is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the areas of mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, functional genomics, directed evolution, and rational design of "new" enzymes.
Professor John Cronan has joined the Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics Research Theme as a full faculty member. He is a faculty member and Head of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in two main areas, the regulation of lipid metabolism and protein-lipid interaction.
Staff
In November, Paula Williams joined IGB as a Grants and Contracts Specialist in the Business Office. She will be providing both pre-award and post-award grant support to the Energy Biosciences Institute.
Paula's most recent position was Assistant to the Associate Director with the University of Illinois, Committee for Institutional Cooperation. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and MBA from Walden University.
