MCB Calendar

Saturday, September 14, 2024

- 7:00 - 11:00 am
- Grange Grove 1416 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820
Game Day Genomics

Come find the IGB at Grange Grove, the official tailgate party area, before all University of Illinois home football games. Come out to see the game and catch the IGB doing hands-on science at Grange Grove beforehand. We will be learning about cool bat facts in preparation for our upcoming Bat Fest on September 28th in collaboration with UPD, INHS, and NRES. ILL! INI!
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, September 16, 2024

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Divyanshi/Yang Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ting-Yu (Felicity) Hsu/Smith-Bolton Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects

Noah Whiteman, PhD Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley "Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage gated sodium channels," by Dr. Theanne Griffith, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, UC Davis School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shrunali Amin/Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy

"Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy" - Minxue Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, Beckman Institute - Cell & Developmental Biology Instrument: MINFLUX
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 19, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Student Speakers Manasi Inamdar (Auerbach Lab) "Identifying convergent pathophysiological mechanisms in genetically distinct rat models of autism", and Yifan Fei (Nelson Lab) "Macrophages and dendritic cells respond differently to liver x receptor ligands: implications for tumor immunology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Bender, Southern Illinois University -- "Anaerobic methionine biosynthesis: roles of a dual acting sRNA/riboswitch in sulfate reducing Desulfovibrio and nitrogenase-like enzymes in phototrophic heliobacteria"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 20, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Joe Sanfilippo (University of Illinois) - "Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 23, 2024

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejas Mahadevan Padmanabhan/Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Aatiqa Nawaz/CemanLab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
Neuroscience Program Town Hall Meeting - Climate Survey Results
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 26, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Edward Cooper, Baylor College of Medicine, "Why are KCNQ2 Phenotypes so diverse? Insights from patients, new structures, and mice"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Amanda Oglesby, University of Maryland -- "It’s a Small RNA World: Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 27, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Carey Nadell - Dartmouth University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology

Valkiria Durán-Narucki, PhD Lecturer & Environmental Psychologist; College of Staten Island, City University of New York "The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology" IGB Seminar - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Evolution of social behaviors in nature and under domestication," by Andres Bendesky, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Paul Donlin
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 3, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Thomas, University of Wisconsin - Madison -- "Investigating Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Enzymology Using Directed Evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 4, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Priyatansh Gurha (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) - "Epigenetic regulation of Cardiac myocyte maturation and heart failure."
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 7, 2024

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Yi Tyan (Audrey) Peng/Freeman 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

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause

Paul Sternberg, PhD Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering; California Institute of Technology "Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause" IGB Seminar - Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity Research Theme
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminar: Paul Fox
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Round Table Discussion

"Round Table Discussion" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Topic: Core Facilities
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 10, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
C. Ladd Prosser Endowed Lecture, Joshua Rosenthal, University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory "Recoding Genetic Information in the Brains of Cephalopods by Editing Messenger RNA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Maureen Coleman, University of Chicago -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, October 13, 2024

- 9:30
- Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Il 60637
World of Genomics: Discover Everyday DNA

Join us for our interactive, hands-on science experience "World of Genomics: Discover Everyday DNA" featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of science!
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 14, 2024

- 9:30
- Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Il 60637
World of Genomics: Discover Everyday DNA

Join us for our interactive, hands-on science experience "World of Genomics: Discover Everyday DNA" featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of science!
- Festival/Celebration
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: You Jin Song/K. Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium