College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am
- 157 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Howard Weatherspoon , "NUCLEATION AND GROWTH: MODELS FOR FACETED AND LAYERED MATERIALS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 4:30 - 5:45 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception
- Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition

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
- 11:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Joel Roberts, Final Defense, UIUC, "Towards Stimuli Responsive Molecules for Cancer Drug Delivery and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall
SourceLab Mondays: Sourcelab visits RBML

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, "Harnessing Radical Polarity: Remote C-H Functionalization by H-Atom Transfer Mechanisms"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 3:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Connections between nuclear activity and galaxy evolution: Can you quench a galaxy without shredding a few stars along the way?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Interseminars | Emergent Quilombos: 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, "Harnessing Carbene Polarity: Unconventional Carbonyl Reactivity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Gregory Hall 100
Historians Among Us Lecture: Hermann von Hesse

Please join us for a Historians Among Us lecture by Hermann von Hesse, an assistant professor of art history.
- 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
- 10:00 am
- 433 RAL
Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics, neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:00 am
- 319 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"
- 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, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "The hidden role of eosinophils during Bordetella spp. infections"
- 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
- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- 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
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Gas Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks
- 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
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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, "Investigating altered neuronal excitability in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 219 Gregory Hall
Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"
- 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, "Inspiration from Industry: Applications of Machine Learning and Catalysis Insights to Define a Process Route for GDC-9918"
- 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: "Proteostasis, Evolution, and Viruses"
- 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
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "Inhibitory decline in recurrent neural networks: behavioral effects, clinical consequences, and potential therapies"
- 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: "Shaping the Future Shapers"
- 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: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
Materials Chemistry Seminar, Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Quest for the Most Distant Universe – Today and Beyond
- 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

- 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