MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Monday, February 6, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: You Jin Song / K Prasanth Lab

"The role of nuclear-enriched long non-coding RNA in hypoxia response and cancer progression"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Aatiqa Nawaz / Ceman Lab

"Role of RNA Helicase MOV10 and its phosphorylation in mRNA regulation."
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sangeetha Ramesh/Mitchell Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 9, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Sean Fanning, Loyola University, "Unconventional Antagonists Reveal Novel Estrogen Receptor Structure-Transcriptional Relationships in Breast Cancer"

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Keith Gagnon (SIU-C), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 13, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Daniel Willinski, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Nic Handy/Wilson Lab and Tongyu "Tony" Liu/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Gabriel Hernandez / Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Yunshu Song / Stubbs Lab: “Distinct but intertwined functions of AUTS2 isoforms in developing brain”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 16, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Ilia Karatsoreos, UMass, "Biological Clocks in Health and Disease"

Associate Professor, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
CBITG Seminar: Adrian Keatinge-Clay, University of Texas-Austin
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 20, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Daniel Hu, Genetech, Buck Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Lucy Chou Zheng/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Matthew Georgiou/Slauch Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Pei-Ciao Tang, University of Miami
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 23, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Aisha Burton, National Institutes of Health -- "Small but Mighty: Small Proteins and Bacterial Stress Responses"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joel McManus (Carnegie Mellon University), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Sulagna Das, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tongyu "Anna" Zhang/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 10:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Charles Bou-Nader (Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Haiting Ma, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Mat sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 2, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Aijun Wang, UC Davis, "TBA"

Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Peggy Cotter, University of North Carolina -- "Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin: a phagocyte-specific toxin delivery system?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "Charge Transport and Conformational Gating in Metalloenzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Tianchi Xin, Yale University, School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Kehl-Fie Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Erin Jimenez, NIH
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Arthur Zou (Leckband lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 9, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Angie Salles, UIC, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Yonatan Grad, Harvard University -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 10, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 13, 2023

- All Day
No CDB Seminar - Spring Break
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 20, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Audrey Peng / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Allison Boss-Kennedy / Chen Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Mireille Farjo/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Esteban Orellana
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Chi Zhang (Fratti lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 23, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Lori Zeltser, Columbia University, "TBA"

Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 27, 2023

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE: Qi Zou (Cronan lab) - "The Regulatory Function of Enterococcus faecalis Acyl Carrier Proteins in Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in the Transcription Factor FabT-dependent Manner"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Adam Norris, Southern Methodist University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shrunali Amin / Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Nick Baker (Kalsotra lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Martin Myers, University of Michigan "TBA"

Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Susan Lovett, Brandeis University -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: John Schneider/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 6, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Brad Rothberg, Temple University "TBA"

Professor, Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Doran, University of Colorado -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 7, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
6th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- B102 CLSL
Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 10, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Andrew Riley/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure/Smith-Bolton Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Alumni Seminar 2023: Dr. Tudorita Tumbar, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Jackson Scholar Yuwei Pan (Zhao lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 13, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Kellie Breen Church, Univ. Calif. San Diego "TBA"

Associate Adjunct Professor, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Lazear, University of North Carolina -- "Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at Anatomic Barriers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 14, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 17, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Journal Club
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Stephanie Puentes/Mera Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Student Invited Seminar: Dr. Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchison Cancer Center
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Yiquan Wang (Wu lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 20, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Zoom
Dr. Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University, St. Louis, "TBA"

Professor, Biophysics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 21, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Fengyi Wan (Johns Hopkins University), "Host-pathogen interactions during enteric bacterial infection”
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 24, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejas Mahadevan / Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Temirlan Shilikbay / Ceman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Seminar: Leilani Cannon, Director, Business Development, Essent Biologics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Yannan Tian (Huang lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 28, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Christopher S. Hayes (UC Santa Barbara), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 1, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anish Bose / Smith-Bolton Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Fredy Kurniawan/S Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Career Development Seminar: Dr. Nilmani Singh

Career Development Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Yanheng Chen (Chen lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 11, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Minxue Liu / K Prasanth Lab: "Determine the role of monoallelically expressed single nucleolus-localized ncRNAs (SNULs)."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Dazhen Liu / S Prasanth Lab:
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 18, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Gerton, University of Kansas School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium