College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Martin Myers, University of Michigan "Control of food intake and body weight by leptin and the hindbrain"

Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Kenneth J. Yin, "Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Susan Lovett, Brandeis University -- "A genetic approach to replication fork repair in E. coli""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Seminar of Special Interest: Professor Jeff Martell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Enzyme-Mimicking Catalysts for Chemical Biology and Sustainable Synthesis"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 108
Un/Doing | Tarren Andrews: “What's a Derivative, Anyway? Un/doing Old English Translation through Indigenous Language Revitalization”

What does it mean to (de)classify something as derivative? What cultural values are at stake in the teleological designation of “derivative”? And, how can we apply pressure to those value judgements to better understand the intersections of Old English translation and settler colonialism in novel ways?
- Lecture

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 10:00 am
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
Raymond Sarksian, Final Defense, UIUC, "Stereochemical Control in Lanthipeptide Biosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "Electron Cryotomography of Cells: Progress and Potential"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:30 pm
- Central High School
Performance of Luis Alfaro's Electricidad
- Performance

Monday, April 3, 2023

- 10:00 am
- 4269 Beckman Institute
FINAL DEFENSE, Kianoush Falahkheirkhah, "Digital Chemical Pathology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Kameron Medine, "P(V) Methods for the Generation of Stereogenic Phosphorus in Bioactive Molecules"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Robert Gilliard, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, "The Cationization Strategy in Main-Group Chemistry: From Bond Activation to Luminescent Materials" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "On the Geometry of Exoplanet Systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: John Schneider/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
Interseminars | Macarena Gómez-Barris: “Unwriting the Colonial Anthropocene”

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 3111 Lincoln Hall
Workshop by Mahbubeh Moqadam
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Susannah Miller , ""Tunable Latency by Catalyst Encapsulation for Silicone Crosslinking"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:10 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
FINAL DEFENSE, Ryan Miller , """
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nohemy Celis Chance, UIUC, "Increasing Probiotic Stickiness Mitigates the Effects of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Jesse Lee Panger, UIUC, Final Defense, "Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization Enabled by Organochalcogen Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 424
HRI Undergraduate Coffee Hour
- Other
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Doran, University of Colorado -- "Life in Mucus: Colonization of the Vaginal Tract by Group B Streptococcus"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Nerses Kopalyan: "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-Led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"
- Lecture

Friday, April 7, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
6th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Lane Baker, Texas A&M University Title: Measuring ions at cell interfaces and moving towards high(er) throughput electrochemical measurements.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Hongxiang Li, "Recent Advances in Chemoenzymatic Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 208
Interseminars | Artist Talk with David Shrobe

Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Alumni Seminar 2023: Dr. Tudorita Tumbar, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Timothy Berkelbach, Columbia University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- GH 223
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 331 Gregory Hall
Graduate Studies Committee Meeting
- Meeting
- 6:00 pm
- I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom
Authors in Conversation: Dave Eggers & Daniel Gumbiner

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
- Other

Thursday, April 13, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Kellie Breen Church, Univ. Calif. San Diego "Regulation of reproduction during stress by a brainstem-hypothalamic neural pathway"

Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Diego Orea, UIUC, "Title TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Dave Eggers on Working with Community Organizations and Nonprofits

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
- Other
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Shrayesh Patel, University of Chicago, "Leveraging the Electrochemically Properties of Redox-Active Particles for Energy Storage" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Alfons Pineda-Knauseder, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Lazear, University of North Carolina -- "Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at Anatomic Barriers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 14, 2023

- All Day
- Illini Union Ballroom
CHBE/OXE Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom
Distinguished Lecture | Françoise Baylis: "Designer Babies: What Are They and Do We Want Them?"

Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
- Lecture

Monday, April 17, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor John McCutcheon, Arizona State University, "The origins and end points of cell-in-cell relationships"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 0357 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Alyssa Mathias, "Songs from the Silicon Mountains: Music and IT Development in 21st-Century Armenia"
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Doherty, University of California Santa Barbara (Su), "Integrated Chemical Reaction Process Systems: From Alan Turing to Martin Feinberg"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Stephanie Puentes/Mera Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

- 8:30 am
- CLSL-B 124
Emily Mumford, Final Defense, UIUC, "Organoselenium Redox-Catalyzed Alkene syn-Difunctionalization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
CDB Student Invited Seminar: Dr. Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchison Cancer Center
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney

Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- 3111 Lincoln Hall
Workshop by Fatou Jobe
- Conference/Workshop
- 7:30 pm
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium in person; livestream at go.illinois.edu/culturetalk
CultureTalk | Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown

Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
- Other

Thursday, April 20, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Zoom
Dr. Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University, St. Louis, "TBA"

Professor, Biophysics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah (Su)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine -- " Morphogenesis and cell division in diverse alphaproteobacteria"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Un/Doing | Poetry Reading and Book Signing: Nikky Finney

Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
- Performance

Friday, April 21, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Fengyi Wan (Johns Hopkins University), "Transient bacterial infection and colonic tumorigenesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Classics Colloquium: Evelyn Adkins
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 22, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 3057 Lincoln Hall
Dr. Tim Bartley - GSAC Annual Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union Room 314
History Department 2022-23 Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 24, 2023

- 7:00 pm
Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Simple Discrete Metal-Ligand Motifs to Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Morphologies" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Matthew E. Helgeson, University of California, Santa Barbara (Rogers), "Development of High-throughput Microrheology to Fuel the Biomaterials Revolution"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Fundamentals to Molecular Design for Energy, Materials and Biomedical Applications" (I)
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Seminar: Leilani Cannon, Director, Business Development, Essent Biologics
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 27, 2023

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Graduate Student Town Hall

HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.
- Other
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Max Robb, California Institute of Technology, (M&O), "Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Max Robb, Cal Tech, "Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 28, 2023

- All Day
Humanities Research Lab Showcase

Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Christopher S. Hayes (UC Santa Barbara), Post-translational activation of a toxic antibacterial effector protein"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Nicholas Angello, UIUC, Final Defense, "Closed-loop Iterative Molecular Discovery Engines"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
2023 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor George C. Schatz, Northwestern University, "Plasmons, Molecules and Theory: Where Top-down Meets Bottom-up."
- Lecture

Monday, May 1, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- TBD
Kristen Munoz, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, University of California, Los Angeles, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania (Shukla), "AI-enabled Physics-Based Models in Cancer and Nanomedicine"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Javier Vela, Iowa State University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
Astronomy Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, University of California, Los Angeles, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- GH 223
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting

Thursday, May 4, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 3111 Lincoln Hall
Florian Znaniecki Lecture - TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 4:00 pm
- 317 GH
Reacting to the Past Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 422
HRI Prizes for Research | Ceremony and Reception
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, May 5, 2023

- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Research Cluster Event: Central Asia Research Forum

The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 8, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Kyle Shelton, Final Defense, UIUC, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 165 Noyes Lab
Corinne Soutar, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 12, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Mediterranean Gallery of the Spurlock Museum
Graduation Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Novartis rep: Dr. Brian Hurley, "Development of small molecule rescuers of survival of motor neuron-2 (SMN2) for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Professor Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

- 10:00 am
- RAL 171
FINAL DEFENSE: Sophie McClain, UIUC, TBD, Advisor: Catherine Murphy
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 31, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Michael F. Freeman, University of Minnesota, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 14, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Christina Woo, Harvard University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 23, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Alice Y. Ting, Stanford University, "Title: TDB"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Gerton, University of Kansas School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium