MBM faculty Rashid Bashir recently co-led a project to develop a smartphone-based device to detect coronavirus. The device is an inexpensive smartphone accessory that can detect viral and bacterial pathogens in about 30 minutes. The team of researchers is adapting …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, 2019
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
Deborah Leckband to give April 8 Frontiers Lecture
The MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Deborah Leckband. She is the Reid T. Milner Professor of Chemical Sciences, a Professor of Chemistry, and one of the core faculty in the MBM Program at
Pengfei Song to give December 2 Frontiers Lecture
The MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Pengfei Song. He is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Song will speak December 2, 2020 at 4pm in Zoom …
Marianne Alleyene to give September 9 Frontiers Lecture
The MBM Program will continue its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series for the Fall 2020 semester with Marianne Alleyene. Alleyene is a Assistant Professor of Entomology and Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois.
Alleyne will speak September
Sanmi Koyejo to give November 11 Frontiers Lecture
The MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Sanmi Koyejo. He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.
Koyejo will speak November 11, 2020 at 4pm in Zoom on “Synthesizing …
New Beckman grants compliment MBM research
Multiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.
Hyunjoon Kong’s research …
Lisa Stubbs to give February 12 Frontiers Lecture
The MBM Program begins its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series for the Spring 2020 semester with Lisa Stubbs. Stubbs is a Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois.
Stubbs …
MBM Welcomes New Trainees!
The MBM Program is proud to announce that we will have three new trainees beginning in January:
Sara Bell is a second-year Chemistry student. Her current research is in characterizing neurotransmitter dynamics in the rodent brain using a range of …
MBM Welcomes New Faculty: Daniel Llano, Taher Saif, Justin Rhodes
Please join MBM in welcoming three new program faculty: Drs. Daniel Llano, Taher Saif, and Justin Rhodes!
Dr. Daniel Llano is an associate professor of molecular & integrative physiology at the University of Illinois, as well as a physician/surgeon at …