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GOLDING GROUP CONTRIBUTES TO NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING GENE REGULATION ACTIVITY
ACROSS A BACTERIUM'S ENTIRE GENOME

Researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign showed that the way in which genes are turned on and off as
bacteria grow provides clues to their regulation.

According to the study authors, organisms from bacteria to humans grow as their
cells multiply by dividing, with each cell becoming two. Before cells divide,
they must copy their DNA so that each of the two “daughter” cells has a copy. To
do so, a molecular machine called DNA polymerase ticks down the DNA chain,
reading and making a copy of each gene, one by one.

Published online January 24 in the journal Nature, the study adds to
explanations of how gene expression throughout the genome is shaped by DNA
replication during bacterial growth. Specifically, the research team found that
when DNA polymerase arrives at any specific gene, it disrupts the transcription
in a way that reveals the state of that gene’s regulatory status.

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COVEY RECEIVES NSF CAREER AWARD

Illinois Physics Assistant Professor Jacob Covey has been selected for a 2024
National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding junior faculty who excel in
both research and teaching and who demonstrate the potential to become lifetime
leaders in their respective fields. Covey’s CAREER award will support a project
titled, “Operating an Optical Atomic Clock Beyond the Laser Coherence and Below
the Projection Limit.”

Over the past decade, atomic clocks that are based on optical transitions have
emerged as the most accurate metrological tool ever developed. In fact, optical
atomic clocks are so precise, they would lose less than one second in the entire
age of the universe. 

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DEMARCO QUOTED IN COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE ON ILLINOIS' QUANTUM INVESTMENT

Meanwhile Brian DeMarco, Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science
and Technology Center at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, said he
thought the campus would be more of an "R & D center" where researchers could
expand their experiments into quantum science and its applications.

"I don't know of any other states that have something like this," DeMarco said.

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INAUGURAL ANTHONY J. LEGGETT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW NAMED

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural Anthony J. Leggett Postdoctoral
Fellow will be Kyung-Su Kim, who is currently finishing his PhD in physics at
Stanford University (Stanford, California). Kim has a bachelor of science degree
from Seoul National University (Republic of Korea). He has done ground-breaking
research in the theory of strongly interacting electron fluids in two
dimensions, where he uncovered the existence of a novel metallic state
coexisting with the Wigner crystal of electrons. Kyung-Su Kim has done
innovative research in the physics of quantum Hall fluids. 

Learn More


GOLDING GROUP CONTRIBUTES TO NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING GENE REGULATION ACTIVITY
ACROSS A BACTERIUM'S ENTIRE GENOME

Researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign showed that the way in which genes are turned on and off as
bacteria grow provides clues to their regulation.

According to the study authors, organisms from bacteria to humans grow as their
cells multiply by dividing, with each cell becoming two. Before cells divide,
they must copy their DNA so that each of the two “daughter” cells has a copy. To
do so, a molecular machine called DNA polymerase ticks down the DNA chain,
reading and making a copy of each gene, one by one.

Published online January 24 in the journal Nature, the study adds to
explanations of how gene expression throughout the genome is shaped by DNA
replication during bacterial growth. Specifically, the research team found that
when DNA polymerase arrives at any specific gene, it disrupts the transcription
in a way that reveals the state of that gene’s regulatory status.

Learn More


COVEY RECEIVES NSF CAREER AWARD

Illinois Physics Assistant Professor Jacob Covey has been selected for a 2024
National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding junior faculty who excel in
both research and teaching and who demonstrate the potential to become lifetime
leaders in their respective fields. Covey’s CAREER award will support a project
titled, “Operating an Optical Atomic Clock Beyond the Laser Coherence and Below
the Projection Limit.”

Over the past decade, atomic clocks that are based on optical transitions have
emerged as the most accurate metrological tool ever developed. In fact, optical
atomic clocks are so precise, they would lose less than one second in the entire
age of the universe. 

Learn More


DEMARCO QUOTED IN COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE ON ILLINOIS' QUANTUM INVESTMENT

Meanwhile Brian DeMarco, Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science
and Technology Center at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, said he
thought the campus would be more of an "R & D center" where researchers could
expand their experiments into quantum science and its applications.

"I don't know of any other states that have something like this," DeMarco said.

Learn More


INAUGURAL ANTHONY J. LEGGETT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW NAMED

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural Anthony J. Leggett Postdoctoral
Fellow will be Kyung-Su Kim, who is currently finishing his PhD in physics at
Stanford University (Stanford, California). Kim has a bachelor of science degree
from Seoul National University (Republic of Korea). He has done ground-breaking
research in the theory of strongly interacting electron fluids in two
dimensions, where he uncovered the existence of a novel metallic state
coexisting with the Wigner crystal of electrons. Kyung-Su Kim has done
innovative research in the physics of quantum Hall fluids. 

Learn More


GOLDING GROUP CONTRIBUTES TO NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING GENE REGULATION ACTIVITY
ACROSS A BACTERIUM'S ENTIRE GENOME

Researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign showed that the way in which genes are turned on and off as
bacteria grow provides clues to their regulation.

According to the study authors, organisms from bacteria to humans grow as their
cells multiply by dividing, with each cell becoming two. Before cells divide,
they must copy their DNA so that each of the two “daughter” cells has a copy. To
do so, a molecular machine called DNA polymerase ticks down the DNA chain,
reading and making a copy of each gene, one by one.

Published online January 24 in the journal Nature, the study adds to
explanations of how gene expression throughout the genome is shaped by DNA
replication during bacterial growth. Specifically, the research team found that
when DNA polymerase arrives at any specific gene, it disrupts the transcription
in a way that reveals the state of that gene’s regulatory status.

Learn More
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