UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Thursday, January 23, 2025

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  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nannan Lu, Ph.D., Stanford University, "Decoding Peripheral-Brain Communication: The Role of Blood Plasma Proteins in Microglial Function"

  Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis

  LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

  Prof. Roel Tempelaar, Northwestern University, "Steering Spin–valley Polarizations through Phonons and Photons"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Advancing Epigenetic Profiling and Genome Editing by Enzyme Engineering"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

  Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, New York University, "Beating the viscosity-conductivity inverse relation barrier to create a breakthrough electrolyte for emerging battery applications: Quantum mechanics holds the key"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

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  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance

  Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Sounak Saha (Jin Lab): "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  CBI-TG Seminar: TBA -- Trainee Host: Vanessa Jones/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• • 4:00
  • 116 RAL

  Evan Hebner (Leckband/Brieher lab) - "The Impact of E-cadherin in the Organization of Multicellular Spheroids."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Fellow: Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Expanding the Druggable Space by Innovative Chemical Biology Approaches"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, "Enabling Polyolefin Circularity through Melt Functionalization and Upcycling" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Morgan Letzkus/Mera Lab and Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab): "Shear flow patterns Antimicrobial gradients across bacterial populatoins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  • 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

Friday, February 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - "Secondary messenger signaling at surfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

  Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Steven Eichinger/Brooke Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Rudolph Jaenisch

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • 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

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"

  • 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
• • 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

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 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 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Elizabeth Gavis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm
  • Medical Sciences Bldg 274

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. James P. Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: Distinct Biologies of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blockade"

  • 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: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransico), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)

  • 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: 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

• • 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 Colrado Anschutz Medical Campus: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

• • 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

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

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