School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Frank Schroeder, Cornell University: Host Metabolism Balances Microbial Regulation of Bile Acid Signaling
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center
Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics

"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- i Hotel and Conference Center
**"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution," Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry**
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
RESCHEDULED for Fall/Spring 2025-2026: Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Speaker: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology

Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Engineering viruses for efficient and targeted gene delivery to the brain," by Min Jee Jang, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Faculty Affiliate, Neuroscience Program & Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 433 RAL
Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics, neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface

Wade Zeno, PhD Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California "Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "TBA:
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 219 Gregory Hall
Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of D-Amino Acid Biosensing"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it

Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- RAL 116
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin: "Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology for a Sustainable Future"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- **Beckman Institute 5602**
"Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
An Introduction to the LSM 980

"An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
The Science and Practice of Team Science: Panel and Reception

Panel, 12:00-1:00pm 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk

Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Alexandre Bisson, Brandeis University, "Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Model for Developmental Mechanobiology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar:Dr. Jennifer Richer - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder/S. Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Graeme Lindsey (Mehta Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Weber Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab)- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, May 26, 2025

- All Day
Memorial Day Holiday
- Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Thursday, June 19, 2025

- All Day
Juneteenth
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, July 4, 2025

- All Day
Independence Day
- Other

Monday, August 25, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets

"The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX

"Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other