Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, "Theory of Extended Bose-Hubbard Systems and Two-Dimensional Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Optional Seminar Speaker: Ken Jacobs - Artemis II Launch and Mission Overview

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 3039

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Terrestrial Worlds of Other Stars

  Time

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Theater

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Erin Swanson CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineering viral antigens to modulate humoral immunodominance"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Krishna Bharadwaj CHEM 575 Seminar: "Programming Peptide Coacervates for Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutics"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Founders Week fireside chat

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute, Auditorium (Room 1025) 405 N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Arpit Dwivedi ('22 Ph.D. MechSE) and Arnav Mishra ('17 B.S. CS, '18 MCS), moderated by Vidhi Chavda a MechSE and ILEE student.

  • Lecture

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Erin Green, University of Chicago -- "Defining regulatory control of environmental persistence in Acinetobacter baumannii"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• After Hours in Chicago - Fall 2026

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

  An informal career reception in Chicago for CS and ECE students and companies to connect, network, and socialize!

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Coming in from the Cold: A New Avenue for Exploring Post-Transcriptional Regulation"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Hot, disordered, and quantum: Electrons in materials from first principles"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical LIT Seminar - Catherine Ihrke & Zackary Epright

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  Talks include - "Going Supercritical with Extraction and Chromatography for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life" by Catherine Ihrke

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Alumni and Graduate Awards

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, October 3, 2026

• ChBE Homecoming Tailgate

  Time

  1:15 - 3:15 pm

  Location

  Gies Memorial Stadium and surrounding area

  • Sporting Event

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Andrew Riley / Brieher Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Jaewon Kim

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Inseok Hwang - Toward Trustworthy Human-aware Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Bone Response to Mechanical Loading: The Influence of Genetics

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute Garden

  Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Cavity Vacuum." Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The devil is in the details: Self-similarity from hysteresis to mechanical trees

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• As the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Graduates from Construction to Discoveries

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Erika Huang CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Host-microbe interactions mediating adverse effects of maternal environmental exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental health," Shelly A. Buffington, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CCIL Training & Education Featured Speaker Series

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute Room 2269

  Claire Schane is a Molecular and Integrative Biology, Ph.D. student and will present on "Breast cancer dormancy and the tumor microenvironment."

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Yelena Simine, McGill University, "New Methods for Simulating Disordered Materials: From Amorphous Graphene to DNA Aptamers"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) ": Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Theory at the Frontier "

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Giuliana Judge CHEM 575 Seminar: "Strain-Release Covalent Reactive Groups as Selective Irreversible Inhibitors"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sneha Jayaram CHEM 575 Seminar: "Enzymes in a New Light: Exploring Two Photobiocatalytic Strategies for [2+2] Cycloadditions."

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University (Host: Prof. Theresa Schoetz) "Energy Storage for an Autonomous Future"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karine Gibbs, University of California - Berkeley -- "Contact-dependent communication drives mesoscale spatial organization of bacterial virulence-associated behaviors"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• When bubbles burst in complex fluids

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical LIT Seminar - Josue Rodriguez & Marita Roshael Roy Anthony George

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Balthazor-Senter Symposium of Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Speakers: Prof. Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Betsy Parkinson (Purdue University), Prof. Kevin Brown (Indiana University), Prof. Quentin Michaudel (Texas A&M), Prof. Tianning Diao (New York University).

  Time

  8:00 am - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Sunday, October 11, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zhengmin Cong / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steve Ulrich

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute Garden

  Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Hybrid Superconducting Photonic Circuits," Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sal Shin CHEM 535 Seminar "Modern Trends in Semipinacol Rearrangement: “Taming The Carbocation”."

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Small-Molecule Antagonists of Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Auxiliary Subunits," by Samy Meroueh, Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Online Graduate Programs Information Session

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  Online

  Interested in our online graduate programs? Join us for a virtual information session hosted by Associate Director of Graduate Programs Meg Griffin and learn about our online master's degree options and our Certificate Program.

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Superconductivity and magnetism in crystalline graphite allotropes"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Karp - Receptivity of Shock Waves to Flow Perturbations

  Time

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  CIF 3031

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko) "The New Alchemy of Scientific Discovery: From Electrons to AI Agents"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cookie Collab

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Atrium

  Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Materials Seminar, 'Molecular Strategies for Assembling and Disassembling Polymer Networks and using them in Medical Devices', Professor Matthew Becker, Duke University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Matthew Becker, Duke University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Biological Living Matter: From Confluent Tissues to Bacterial Aggregates

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Sam Sternberg (Columbia University) - "RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

• Analytical LIT Seminar - Emily Clayton & Satirtha Saha Protya

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  Emily Clayton will be presenting, " Molecular Basis of Mouthfeel: Analytical Approaches to Measuring Wine Astringency". Satirtha Saha Protya will be presenting, " Seeing Beyond the Scalpel: Emerging Analytical Technologies for Real-Time Surgical Decision Making".

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi, "Long-range toric code: finite-temperature topological order in two dimensions"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense of Destiny Gray "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  165 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Mark Messner - Smarter Materials Modeling with AI, Physics, and Large Data

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BMS Lecture: Dr. Lucas Hernandez, BMS, "Process Development of BMS-986365: Evolution of a Discovery Route into a Commercial Process"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BMS Lecture: Professor Thomas Maimone, University of California, Berkeley, "Synthetic Studies and Applications of Complex Natural Products"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute Garden

  Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• IQUIST Seminar: Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Beckman Core Facilities Tech Talk

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

  • Other

  

• Making Network Knowledge First-Class: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Network Management

  Time

  2:00 - 3:15 pm

  Location

  Room 2405, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 'Cartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision', Professor Josh Buss, University of Michigan

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Relativistic Stellar Explosions: The Landscape Revealed by Wide-field, High-cadence Optical Surveys

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "From Molecular Pathogenesis to 4 phenylbutyrate rescue in Genetic Epilepsies associated with Impaired GABA receptor and transporter,," by Professor Jingqiong Kang, Department of Neurology & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Joshua Pack CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Graduate Programs Overview Information Session

  Time

  7:00 pm   CST

  Location

  Online

  Want to learn more about our on-campus graduate programs? This virtual session for prospective students is hosted by CEE Associate Head and Director of Graduate Programs John Popovics, it will provide an overview of the CEE at Illinois MS and PhD programs.

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Prof. Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University, "Molecular Optical-Spin Interfaces for Quantum Information Applications"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Madhusree Seal (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Structural characterization of mammalian and avian Fcα/µR".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  Time

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Learn about our M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership degree program.

  • Webinar

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Cubist Lobby Day

  Time

  11:00 am - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium

  • Informational

  

• Hannah King CHEM 575 Seminar: "Thalidomide and the Unexpected Path to Targeted Protein Degradation"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Shuaiqi Yuan CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry, Professor Polly Arnold, University of California Berkley, “f-block aryloxides; a new class of catalysts for dinitrogen conversion at ambient conditions”

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry, Professor Polly Arnold, University of California Berkley, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Shady Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi -- "Steroid hormones produced by coral-associated bacteria modulate the coral immune response during thermal stress"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Nirmal Ghimire, University of Notre Dame

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Andreas Gleis (Rutgers)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  236 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: H.S. Udaykumar (Uday)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Nicholas L. Truex, University of South Carolina, "Protein Technologies for Unlocking Immunity and Expanding the Folding Code"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Final Defense: Hina Zhou (van der Donk Lab) - "Beyond the Peptide: Physiological Function of LanC-like Proteins and Noncanonical Substrate Scope of Peptide Aminoacyl-tRNA Ligases"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  419 RAL (Rose Room)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute Garden

  Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Hannah Manetsch

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Timothy Johstone, University of California Santa Cruz

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Timothy Johstone, University of California Santa Cruz

  Time

  3:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Aiden Parente CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab and Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Physiology under pressure: Sensory circuits of body-brain physiology," by Michael Schappe, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Affiliate Faculty, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure / Smith-Bolton Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Saumya Saurabh, New York University, "Using Light to Decipher Life: Mapping the Chemical Environment Inside Biomolecular Condensates"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Danielle Otero CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Kellen Sharpe CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense - Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "Deep Mutational Scanning Reveals Patterns in Broadly Neutralizing Influenza and Betacoronavirus Antibodies"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  124 Burrill Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Zoi Rapti, Mathematics/University of Illinois Urbana-Illinois -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine) - "Mechanistic insights of RNA toxicity and disrupted RNA processing from modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in mice"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Jiwoong Park, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense: "Vortex Dynamics and Anomalous Metallic Behavior in Superconducting Island Arrays"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  276 Loomis

  • Lecture