🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Less than a week to submit your 2023 Seed Grant Application! Deadline is April 30 📅

📢 Are you a science educator in the Champaign-Urbana area? The MMLI Outreach team would like to host you for a "Meet & Greet" Event at the Seibel Center for Design. June 1st from 7-9PM - Join us for food, drinks, and networking! Sign up/more info here: flowcode.com/page/mmli-educ…

Tonight! See you there!

Interested in P450s vs Mn(CF3PDP) oxidations in carbocyclic N-heterocyclic drugs & describing substrate scope quantitatively? Check out PNAS paper from Rachel, Jake & Jinho of WhiteGroup with Merck Shane Krska Shane W. Krska & Jason Hoar: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out video "Mn(CF3PDP): CYP450 in a Bottle"  explaining MCWhite's group new paper in PNAS: a preparative small-molecule mimic of liver CP450 enzymes & how to use chemoinformatics to quantify scope: youtu.be/ZrV5IPFJc2o

🚀 Launching the Language + Molecules Workshop at ACL2024 ACL 2025! Dive into the integration of molecules & natural language for breakthroughs in drugs, materials, & more. 🧪⚛️ language-plus-molecules.github.io

Diwakar Shukla led a research study that explored how cell membranes can change the behavior of proteins embedded within them. The study focused on a specific protein called aquaporin, which acts as a microscopic water channel in cells. Learn more: bit.ly/4cyNf97

Are you curious about entrepreneurship as a career path? The Molecule Maker Lab institute is hosting an “Entrepreneurship Showcase Panel” on April 30th from 11:30AM-12:30 pm CST (with FREE LUNCH!) in 1030 NCSA. Join in person or virtually - calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7835/33…

Congratulations to our own Dr. Shukla!

IGB researchers awed Congress leaders with iBioFAB at the Robotics Showcase and Demo Day in Washington D.C. Learn more at bit.ly/44QxyXt.

Research led by prof. Schroeder reveal a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones. Further, they have demonstrated a straightforward “one-pot” method for synthesizing such molecules. Learn more: bit.ly/4cPCFJY

🎉New Podcast!🎉 Kyle Timmer (of ChBE Illinois) is on a mission to help your body heal faster after an injury.  Kyle joined the GradLIFE podcast to discuss science communication, working with stem cells, the ins and outs of lab work, and more. Listen: buzzsprout.com/1822685/157368…

Have you ever wondered what goes into designing an installation like the Roots of Genomics? Watch our video and click on the link to learn more from the artist-scientist team that worked to bring this installation to life. Link --> bit.ly/3Bgf9IR

Have you heard? This year marks the 100th anniversary of chemical engineering at Penn State! There’s a lot of history here to showcase, and we’ll be highlighting important milestones throughout the year. Here’s to the next 100 years of transformative research and education!

UIUC/Champaign-Urbana folks: MMLI's AI + Chemistry themed escape room, Lab 217 will be running at Siebel Center for Design this week! Sign-up for timeslots here: calendly.com/moleculemaker-…

We are extremely excited to announce mCLM, a Modular Chemical Language Model that is friendly to automatable block-based chemistry and mimics bilingual speakers by “code-switching” between functional molecular modules and natural language descriptions of the functions. 1/2