College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Monday, March 10, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture w/Professor Brian Blagg, University of Notre Dame, "Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Rediscovery of Hsp90 Inhibitors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall Room 306
Lemann Lecture Series: Marc Hertzman Book Talk for "After Palmares"

Join the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies for a talk by professor Marc Herztman about his new book, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi. Food will be provided.
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, "Directional Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Accumulation Using Copper Photosensitizers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 1:30 pm
- English Building 160
FINAL DEFENSE: Nafisa Ibrahim "Systematic Study of Redox-Active Polymers for Energy Storage: Exploring Structural Modulation, Electrolyte Interactions and Programmable Degradation" Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 422
From Farm to Classroom: Community Wellness Collaboration

Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
- Other

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Vipendra Kumar, UIUC (Tsai Lab), " Exploring the therapeutic potential of mGluR7 in Fragile X syndrome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ceilia Leso, UIUC, "Environmental Spies: Genetically Encoded Plant Biosensors and their Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Fuson Student Talks: Youran Luo, UIUC, "Investigation of Lanthionine Synthase-Catalyzed Thio-Michael Addition"; Matthew Albritton, UIUC, "Development and Mechanistic Investigation of an Aqueous, Indium-Catalyzed Allylation of Native Carbohydrates Using Allylboronate Esters"
- 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: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "Innovating in – and learning from – battery science to address challenges in electrochemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 17, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting

Thursday, March 20, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Harshika Varadhan, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS hub
SourceLab Presents: GIS Storymaps

Join Sourcelab for a session on GIS Storymaps.
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
New Frontiers in Transient Astrophysics: Gravitational-Wave Multi-Messenger Sources and R-process Nucleosynthesis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making in the Midwest

Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and students from the University of Illinois music department.The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
- Performance

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "Neural Systems that Maintain Body Weight by Activating Tissue Thermogenesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Dr. Raundi E. Quevedo, Novartis, "Scientific Vignettes: Molecular Glues for Drug Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Professor Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mackenzie Pierce, "Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust"
- Lecture

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, "Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2-Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- All Day
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "Integrated Electrochemical Sensors for On-body and At-home Measurements"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- 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
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Interseminars | Emergent Quilombos: A Discussion on Black Life, Ancestral Knowledges, and Diasporic Cultural Politics in the Americas

Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
- Other
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Lincoln Hall 1065
Lecture: New Evidence for Congenital Syphilis in Ancient and Medieval Afro-Eurasia by Marylynn Salmon (Smith College)

Join the Program in Medieval Studies for a lecture by Marylynn Salmon (Smith College) titled "New Evidence for Congenital Syphilis in Ancient and Medieval Afro-Eurasia."
- Lecture

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "Title TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Andy Thomas, Texas A&M University, "Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Tom Soh, Stanford University, "Real-Time Biosensor Technology"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting
- 7:15 pm
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials: PCET stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics for molecules and materials: from slow to ultrafast"
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"
- 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

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)
Inside Scoop/Food for the Soul with Ross Gay

Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
- Other
- 7:30 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom
Public Reading | Ross Gay

A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
- Performance

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Dr. Derek Dalton, Genentech, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Matthew D. Shoulders, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 0359 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Olga Zaitseva-Herz, "From Stages to Battlefields: The Role of Pop Music in Russia's Full-Scale War on Ukraine"
- Lecture

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:50 pm
- School of Labor and Employment Relations, Room 51, 504 E Armory Street
Roundtable Discussion: Community-Engaged Histories of British Black Power

Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS hub
SourceLab Presents: Library of Congress API

Join Sourcelab for a session on Library of Congress API.
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- International and Areas Studies Library, 3rd Floor The Main Library
Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918

Join us for an event exploring Lebanese history through the Jesuit archive in Lebanon.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
Sociology Colloquia: Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
- Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”
- 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

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SAS Friday Talks @ 11: Deepasri Baul, The Festival, the Mohalla and the City: Bakr-Id Riots and the politics of urban space in Delhi, 1924-26

Join the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for a lecture with history professor Deepasri Baul.
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransisco), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Dr. Daniel Pippel, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- 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: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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 Colorado 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, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Paul M. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays

Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
- Meeting

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
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington, (TBD) (I)
- 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

- 10:50 - 11:50 am
- Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium; 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana
Social Research Methods Symposium
- Exhibition
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Spurlock Museum Atrium
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception

Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
- Reception/Open House

Friday, May 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Ceremony/Service
- 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

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service

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

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

Saturday, November 1, 2025

- 8:00 am
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop

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