UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• 

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

  MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Canran Deng (M. Gillette Lab) "Temporal Dynamics of Circadian Rhythms and Permeability in Human iPSC-Derived Brain Endothelial Cells" & Zihuan Lin (Raetzman Lab) "Epigenetic factor Arid2 contributes to pituitary development and congenital hypopituitarism pathogenesis."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Frank Zhang CHEM 575 Seminar: Bioremediation 3.0: A Brave New Paradigm

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University, "Structure and mechanisms of subtype-specific binding and allosteric modulation in GABAA receptors"

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

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kimberly Seed, University of California - Berkeley -- "Fighting with phages: how Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

• 

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

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Arnold Mathijssen (University of Pennsylvania) - "Rheotaxis: Invasion of bacteria swimming upstream into microstructured devices

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 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

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141

  ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology

  • 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
• • 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
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"

  • 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

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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”

  • 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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm

  M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  • Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Yang Yang, UW Madison, "Bridging Quantum and Classical: An Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Related Chemistry"

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

  Jorge Calderin (Fratti Lab)- "The Effects of Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate on Vacuole Fusion"

  • 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
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  "The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

  • Informational

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
  • 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
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

  • 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
• • 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

• • 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm   3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

  • 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
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar

  • 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

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

  Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, TBD

  • 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
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar

  • 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

Friday, November 7, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “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, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

  • 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
• • 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: 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm   3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

  • 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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • 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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

  • 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

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Tina Wang / Washington University

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

  Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman

  "Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 2:30 pm
  • CLSL B-102

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B-102

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Thursday, November 20, 2025

• 

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

  MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

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

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• • 2:00 - 2:30 pm
  • CLSL B-102

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B-102

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

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

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

  • 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

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

  • 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

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, TBD

  • 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

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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

  Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  TBD, Professor Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 - 6:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CLSL B102

  Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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

  Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium