MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Monday, January 24, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Kevin Van Bortle, University of Illinois

  "North, South, West, Midwest: My sequence in life and research across the U.S." Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 27, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Daniel Gorelick, Baylor College of Medicine, "Membrane steroid receptors in embryonic development"

  Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 p.m.
    

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nikki Klatt, University of Minnesota -- "Novel mechanisms of microbiome-mediated effects on human health"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Joel Rivera Cardona/Brooke Lab and Laura Suttenfield/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Sarah Gardner (Chan lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Zack Dewald (Kalsotra lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 3, 2022

• • 10:00 am   11:00 a.m.
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Thesis Defense: Pooja Agashe/Kuzminov Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Student/Postdoc Seminar: Yenny Yook (Tsai Lab)"Role of PSD-95 in Neuronal Hyperactivity and Seizures in Alzheimer's Disease" and Dr. Baher Ibrahim (Llano Lab), "Using microprisms, the two-photon calcium imaging revealed a functional distinction between the dorsal & lateral cortices of the mouse inferior colliculus"

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nancy Haigwood, Oregon Health & Science University -- "Antibodies as Therapies for Infectious Diseases: 'Hit Early, Hit Hard' "

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 7, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: You Jin Song

  "TBA." K. Prasanth Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Miles Norsworthy

  "TBA" Gillette Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Yutong "Gloria" Hou/Vanderpool Lab and Ivan Sosa Marquez/Heath Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Heather Liu (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Issac Kim (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 10, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Julie Siegenthaler, University of Colorado

  Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Section of Developmental Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    

  Microbiology Seminar: Josep Casadesus, University of Seville -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 14, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Divyanshi

  "TBA." Yang Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Aatiqa Nawaz

  "TBA." Ceman Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Tongyu "Tony" Liu/Brooke Lab and Saika Hossain/Kehl-Fie Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Carmen Varela, Florida Atlantic University, "The Sleeping Thalamus. Sparse Cell Coordination and Burst Diversity"

  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Marvin Whiteley, Georgia Institute of Technology -- "Probing bacterial function during human infection"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 21, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Allison Boss-Kennedy

  "TBA." Chen Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Gabriela Hernandez Gonzalez

  "TBA." Belmont Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Lucy Chou Zheng/Hatoum-Alan Lab and Tongyu "Anna" Zhang/Kieffer Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Brendan Sullivan (Leckband lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Yannan Tian (Huang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 24, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Philipp Scherer, UT Southwestern Medical Center

  Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jannell Bazurto, University of Minnesota -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 28, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Audrey Peng

  "TBA." Freeman Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Temirlan Shilikbay

  "TBA." Ceman Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Matthew Georgiou/Slauch Lab and Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Anthony Leung, Johns Hopkins University.

  "TBA." Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Che Yang (Zhao lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Layla Wu (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 3, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, University of Cambridge

  Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Filipa Rijo-Ferreira, University of California-Berkeley -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Fatih Cakar/Slauch Lab and Kristen Farley/Vanderpool Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Andrea Kasinski, Purdue.

  "TBA." Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Krishna Narayanan (Procko lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Yanheng Chen (Chen)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 10, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Neelanjan Mukherjee, University of Colorado

  Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Grant Bowman, University of Wyoming -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 17, 2022

• 

  • 8:30 am
    

  Molecular & Integrative Physiology Seminar: SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Luke Bown/Metcalf Lab and Kenneth Ringwald/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Arthur Zou (Leckband lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Ullyot Fellow: Shukun Yang (Silverman lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 24, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Malavika Raman, Tufts University

  Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Molecular and Chemical Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Irene Newton, Indiana University -- "Mi casa es su casa: how an intracellular symbiont manipulates host biology""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 31, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Anthony Ferrante Jr., Columbia University

  Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Nutrition

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dipali Sashital, Iowa State University -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 1, 2022

• • All Day
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

  5th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am   1pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Yejing Ge, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  "TBA." Assistant Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 7, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Victor Uteshev, Epigen Biosciences

  Vice President for Discovery Sciences

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Marta Gaglia, Tufts University -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 8, 2022

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  • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vinayak Agrawal (Georgia Tech), TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 11, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Yunshu Song

  "TBA." Stubbs Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Via Zoom

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jurgen Knoblich, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

  "TBA." Institute of Molecular Biotechnology.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 14, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Charles Bourque, McGill University, Canada

  Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karl Thompson, Howard University -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Jasmine A Nirody, The Rockefeller University -- "A tale of two motilities: adaptive biomechanics in complex, changing environments"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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  • 11:00 am
    
  • https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

  Dr. Ji Miao, Harvard Medical School

  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 11:00 am   12:00 pm
    

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Melanie Blokesch, EPFL -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Nkrumah Grant, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Christopher Hawk (Jin lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 28, 2022

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  • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Manuel Amieva, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Junya Li (XXX lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Mashiat Chowdhury (Jin lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Gerton, University of Kansas School of Medicine.

  "TBA." Investigator, Stowers Research Institute.

  • Seminar/Symposium