Nano Seminars

Monday, December 16, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
Chiyoung Ahn, Final Defense, UIUC, "Enhancing Chemoselectivity and Predicting Site-Selectivity in Manganese Catalyzed C-H Oxidation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 21, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Friday, January 3, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Alex Cusumano, University of California, Los Angeles, "Transition Metal-catalyzed Pericyclic and Photochemical Strategies for C–C Bond Construction"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 6, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Evert Njomen, Scripps Research, "Targeting the Undrugged Proteome with Small Molecules"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Carly Schissel, University of California, Berkeley, "Strategies to Discover, Design, and Synthesize Unnatural Bioactive Peptides"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: Professor Michael C. Jewett, Stanford University, "Synthetic Biology for People and Planet Health"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Michael Strauss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Developing General Synthetic Methods Across Molecular Dimensions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- TBD
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Marissa Lavagnino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prof. Shauna M. Paradine, University of Rochester, "Title - TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Faculty Candidate: Dr. Sophia Shevick, Harvard University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Lilly Lecture: Lilly rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Lilly Lecture: Professor Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Amgen Lecture, Amgen rep: Dr. Heather Johnson, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Amgen Lecture w/Professor Jeffrey W. Bode, ETH Zurich, "Title: TDB"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Marvel/Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Fuson Student Talks: speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Novartis rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Professor Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Professor Andy Thomas, Texas A&M University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Tom Soh, Stanford University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 7:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
J&J Innovative Medicine Lecture: J&J rep:TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
J&J Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE Spring 2025 Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium