School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Yuwei Pan (Zhao Lab) - “Development of a new refactoring strategy for large complex natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.”

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Lucy Liu (Christian-Hinman Lab) "Investigating Seizure Susceptibility in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model using Repeated Low-Dose Kainic Acid Injection" & Gabe McKenna (Tsai Lab) "Characterizing the Mechanism and Neurodevelopmental Impacts of a de novo GRM7 Mutation"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis, "The Environment Sculpts the Cell: pH, Peptidoglycan, and β-lactam Resistance"

4:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Genome Day

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801

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

Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Meijin Pan (Tsai Lab) & Dhanya Pradeep (Erik Nelson Lab) "Evaluation of Selective FXR Modulation and Gut Microbiome Intervention in Breast Cancer Pathophysiology"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Arthur Charles-Orszag, University of California - Davis -- "Cellular, molecular mechanisms and evolution of chromosome segregation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius"

4:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan" Ya Min, Assistant Professor Plant Biology, Physics
- Seminar/Symposium
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

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

MIP Endowed C. Ladd Prosser Lecture: Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, "Understanding Energy Homeostasis, and its Impact on Obesity Pharmacotherapy"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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
2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Deciphering antibody sequences

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
- Seminar/Symposium
"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

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Nick Polizzi, Harvard University, "Understanding and Manipulating Immune Modulation by the Microbiome"

1:30 - 5:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium