Department of Chemistry Calendar MASTER

Thursday, February 21, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CANCELED!: Dr. Squire Booker, PennState University, title "Moving beyond Methionine Synthase: New Insight into Cobalamin-Dependent Methylation Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, February 23, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Alpha Chi Sigma Krug Lecture, Dr. Joanne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Radicals: Your Life is in Their Hands"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 25, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, "Deciphering Patterns in Selective Small Molecule:RNA Interactions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory (RAL)
From Bleach to Bees: One Chemist's Path to A Sweet Life
- Lecture

Thursday, February 28, 2019

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Mr. Timothy Precord, UIUC, "Emerging Molecular Mechanisms in the Human Microbiota"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Robert W. Huigens III, University of Florida, "Indole Alkaloids and Phenazine Antibiotics: New Platforms for Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 1, 2019

- 10:00 am
- 117 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Graham Hudson, Final Defense, UIUC, "Investigating and Engineering the Post-Translational Modifications in RiPP Biosynthesis: (I) Thiopeptides (II) Sactipeptides"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Mr. Rulin Ma, Final Defense, UIUC, "New Frontiers in C—H amination via Pd(II)/SOX catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 4, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Dan Weix, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Engaging Difficult Substrates in Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Suslick-Sessler Lecture: Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, "Macromolecular Engineering by Taming Free Radicals"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

- 2:00 pm
Professor Renee Frontiera, University of Minnesota, "Probing plasmon-mediated processes with ultrafast surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 7, 2019

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Ms. Emily Tonogai, "Novel Approaches toward Site Selective Modification of Native Proteins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Ellen Sletten, University of California, Los Angeles, "Beyond the Near-infrared: Biocompatible Contrast Agents for Shortwave Infrared Imaging"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 11, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, BMS representative: Dr. Ryan Moslin, "Inhibition of TYK2 via the Pseudokinase: The Discovery of BMS-986165"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Eric Meggers, Phillips-Universität Marburg, "New Chemical Space for the Design of Chiral Transition Metal Catalysts"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Sarah Perry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Molecular Engineering of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Ms. Emily Mumford, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Monday, March 25, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Fuson Student Talks, Speakers--Soumitra Athavale: "Demystifying the Soai Reaction"; Rajeev Chorghade: "Small molecule ion channel restores host defenses in cystic fibrosis airway epithelia"; Lauren Hagler: "Template-Assisted Click Chemistry as a Method for Developing Small Molecule Therapeutics for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1)"; Wei Liu: "Asymmetric Allylic C–H Functionalization with Pd(II)/Sulfoxide-Oxazoline Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Student Select Seminar, Prof. Roberto Car, Princeton University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 28, 2019

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Ms. Melissa Lucero, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, March 31, 2019

- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- The Rocks Bar at the Hyatt Regency Orlando
ACS Orlando - Chemistry at Illinois Alumni & Friends Reception
Please join us at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo in Orlando for the Chemistry at Illinois Alumni & Friends ACS Reception. Faculty, students, alumni, and friends will gather around a hosted bar and hors d’oeuvres to share stories about our time on campus. No tickets or preregistration required.
- Reception/Open House

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jacinta Conrad, University of Houston, "Transport of Nanoparticles Through Complex, Crowded Fluids"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

- 3:00 pm
- B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Mr. Christopher Bemis, Final Defense, UIUC, "Synthesis of Sesquiterpene-Tropolones"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dr. Noel Chang, Dow Chemical, Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 4, 2019

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Mr. Austin Weigle, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Huiying Liu, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 5, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Abraham Badu-Tawiah, The Ohio State University, Title: "Panoptic Mass Spectrometry: How and Why?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 8, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota, "Harnessing Disorder in Self-assembled Block Polymers for Functional Nanostructured Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Dr. Younan Xia, Georgia Tech, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Mr. Vincent Kassel, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Prof. Sean Roberts, Univestiy of Texas - Austin, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 11, 2019

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Mr. Mingkuan Lyu, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 12, 2019

- 12:00 - 6:00 pm
CHBE Undergraduate Awards Ceremony and OXE Research Symposium
- Other

Monday, April 15, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture, Amgen representative: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture, Professor Nuno Maulide, University of Vienna, "Title: TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Geerdes Lecture, Ms. Elizabeth Ryland, University of Illinois, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Ms. Yishu Zhang, UIUC, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Mr. Alexander Shved, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 433 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Samuel Gockel, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Professor Birgit Whaley, University of California - Berkeley, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 18, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, Polyelectrolyte Assemblies: Fundamentals and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Sergey Pronin, University of California, Irvine, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 19, 2019

- 3:00 pm
- 433 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Kevin Robb, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 22, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Reactions Lecture: Professor Herbert Mayr, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, "Title: TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jennifer Dunn, Northwestern University, "Co-Optimized Engines and Fuels from Biomass: Deployment Potential, Benefits, and Realities"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Tianning Diao, New York University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Ms. Zubaoyi Yi, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Professor Wallace Marshall, University of California - San Francisco, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 25, 2019

- 7:30 pm
- B102 CLSL
Bailar Lecture: Professor Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2019

- 3:30 pm
- B102 CLSL
Bailar Lecture: Professor Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 29, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture, Genentech representative: TBD, "Title: TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Tomohisa Kuzuyama, University of Tokyo, "Title: TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Mr. Chiyoung Ahn, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Flygare Memorial Lecture, Professor Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 2, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jennifer West, Duke University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Michael Nippe, Texas A&M University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

- 2:00 pm
- 433 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Christopher Pattillo, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Dr. D. Sangeeta, Amazon, Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 16, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Gottlieb Lecture: Professor Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 19, 2019

- 8:30 am
- Grange Grove, just west of Memorial Stadium
ChBE Alumni & Friends Homecoming Tailgate
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 28, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium