UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "Flow Electrooxidation of Glycerol for Industrial-Scale Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • 2:00 pm   06/05/2025
  • Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, room 419

  Alexander Battiste, Final Defense, UIUC, "Discovery and Characterization of a Set of Peptide-Modifying Heme Oxygenase-Like Domain-Containing Oxidases'

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm
  • The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820

  Preposterous Pollinators

  The little-known and less loved insects doing the work that bees and butterflies can't... May Berenbaum will be speaking as part of Pollinator Week. Come out to hear this talk and learn about how awesome pollinators are!

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• • 7:00 pm
  • 25 O'Clock, 208 W Griggs St Suite 101, Urbana, IL 61801

  Pollinator Trivia

  Buzz on over for a night of fun and facts at our Pollinator Trivia Night one of a series of events for National Pollinator Week! Join us at 25 O’Clock Brewing Company for four rounds of pollinator-themed trivia (10 questions each). Come for the drinks and stay for the nerdy science trivia. Teams of up to 6, free to play, prizes for the winners.

  • Social/Informal Event

Sunday, June 22, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802

  Science on Tap: Teaching Organic Chemistry Reactions through Classical Animation Techniques

  Join us to hear about "Teaching Organic Chemistry Reactions through Classical Animation Techniques" Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting with Jorge Calderin, PhD student from Fratti Lab, Department of Biochemistry

  • Lecture

Friday, June 27, 2025

• • 1:00 pm   06/05/2025
  • Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, room 419

  Karna Terpstra, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Multi-Purpose Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am   1:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Riccardo Candeago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"

  • Seminar/Symposium

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
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab): "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik, University of Rhode Island (host: Simon Rogers)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 11, 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

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 18, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania (host: Joon Kong)

  • 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
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan Lab) - TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University (host: Theresa Schoetz)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California, Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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

  Lunch with the Core: 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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

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

  Westcott Fellow: Jorge Calderin - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 25, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, October 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

Tuesday, November 11, 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

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - 'TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 20, 2025

• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, February 19, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium