School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure / Smith-Bolton Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Aatiqa Nawaz / Ceman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Isabelle Lakis/Heath Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer

"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yuwei Pan (Zhao Lab) - “Development of a new refactoring strategy for large complex natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Lucy Liu (Christian-Hinman Lab) & Gabe McKenna (Tsai Lab) "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis, "The Environment Sculpts the Cell: pH, Peptidoglycan, and β-lactam Resistance"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 18, 2025

- 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801
Genome Day

Join us for a fun day of hands-on science! Talk with scientists and explore exhibits and activities including learning how organisms relate to each other on the Tree of Life, extracting strawberry DNA to make necklaces, and understanding how genomics pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Although designed for K-12 children, all members of the community are welcome.
- Festival/Celebration

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology; Weill Cornell Medicine "Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Network Neuroscience: Linking Structure and Function," by Olaf Sporns, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Meijin Pan (Tsai Lab) & Dhanya Pradeep (Erik Nelson Lab) "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Arthur Charles-Orszag, University of California - Davis -- "Cellular, molecular mechanisms and evolution of chromosome segregation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan

"Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan" Ya Min, Assistant Professor Plant Biology, Physics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium
NSP DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR: "Breath, space and memory: How nasal respiration shaped the evolution of hippocampal function." by Lucia F. Jacobs, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Endowed C. Ladd Prosser Lecture: Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, "Understanding Energy Homeostasis, and its Impact on Obesity Pharmacotherapy"

Professor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute ATRIUM
2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume

"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm
- 116 RAL
Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "TBA"

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Deciphering antibody sequences

Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension

"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm
- 116 RAL
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 - 5:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Nick Polizzi, Harvard University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute ATRIUM
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium