MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Friday, March 27, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Dianne Newman (CalTech) - "Unveiling low-power survival strategies on life's metabolic edge"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 30, 2026

Final Defense: Rachel Martini (van der donk Lab) - "Discovery and Characterization of Glycocin and Lanthipeptide Natural Products"

10:00 am

612 IGB
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Lorraine Bai / Li Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense: Junyao Zhu (Shapiro Lab) - "A Novel Pathway Controlling the Anticancer Therapy-induced Immunogenic Cell Death"

2:00 pm

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abbi Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Wenkan Liu (Wu Lab) - 'HAAbGAT: A Graphic Attention neural network model for HA-Antibody Epitope Prediction and Screening'

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Hossein Omidi Ardali (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "Cholesterol Enhances Peripheral Binding of the FERM Domain to Membrane"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Jimmy Dooley, Purdue University "From brainstem to cortex: REM sleep and the developmental hand-off of motor control. "

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "Single-cell Studies of Phage Penetration and Implications for Antimicrobial Strategies"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

Dr. Susan Hafenstein (University of Minnesota) - "Structural Studeis of virus and host interactions"

8:30 am

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 6, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Brooke Bouwens (Hergenrother Lab)- ""Investigating the Role of TRPM4 in ErSO-TFPy Mediated Cell Death".

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Evangelos Kiskinis, Northwestern University "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "Understanding hantavirus pathogenesis through innate immune activation"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

Final Defense: Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller Lab): "Structural Characterization of Avian Polymeric Antibodies: Insights into Evolutionary Divergence and Function"

10:00 am

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 13, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Reean Abdullah / Chen Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "From Cold Shock to Ribosome Heterogeneity : How Bacteria Reshape The Translational Landscape Under Stress"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Minsoo Kim (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Final Defense: Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab) - “Flow boosts antimicrobial effectiveness and patterns bacterial population gradients”

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Seminar: Dr. Ajay Jain, SSM Health, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adam Deutschbauer, University of California - Berkeley -- "Characterizing microbes at scale with high-throughput genetics"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

9th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai / Chen Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Final Defense: Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Combined effects of flow and hydrogen peroxide on bacteria."

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Piyush Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear force counterintuitively enhances surface colonization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Pelham Kogut (van der Donk Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Avtar Roopra, University Wisconsin-Madison, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mauricio Pontes, Penn State University -- "Control of bacterial envelope homeostasis and virulence gene expression"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joe Sanfilippo (UIUC) - "Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Gene Yeo / UC San Diego

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Zixiao Li (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Mitchell Roitman, University Illinois Chicago, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Courtney Ellison, University of Georgia -- "Form and function: The role of type IV pili in DNA uptake"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Parisa Hosseinzadeh (University of Oregon) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Surabhi Sonam / UIUC

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Micah Schott, University of Nebraska Medical Center, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Juan Guan (University of Texas) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium