Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "Rapid evolution in the gut microbiome"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lucas Meirelles (Harvard/Mass General) - "Dynamic Host-Pathogen Co-Adaptation in Chronic Airway Infections”

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The tenfold way on a finite Hilbert space: topology of entanglement for qubits and fermions"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra / Belmont 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, Ruben Verresen (U Chicago), "Intrinsically Gapless Topological Matter"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Sedina Tsikata - Stability and Time-Resolved Dynamics of Fluctuations in Magnetized Electric Propulsion Plasmas

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Scanning NV Microscopy for Quantum Materials: From Magnetic Imaging to Nanoscale EPR", Huan Zhao, Eugene Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Huan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Beckman Core Facilities Tech Talk

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

  Beckman Core Facilities Tech Talk

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Spontaneous Fission and Fusion of Block Copolymer Micelles"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• From Winds to Explosions: The Physics of Interacting Cool Giants

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Adapting to Cracks: Learning from the Dynamic Structure of Mineralized Tissues and Cells

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Yishuo Jiang/Sirk Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• IQUIST Special Seminar: "Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Strontium," Julio T. Barreiro, University of California San Diego

  Time

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Supercon 1002

  Speaker: Julio Barreiro

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• FINAL DEFENSE: Lakshmy Priya Ajayakumar "Reporter Spins on Demand: Photoswitchable Organic Radicals for Quantum Sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers"

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Noyes Lab 164

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Ahmet Yildiz (University of California Berkeley) "Stepping dynamics of dynein characterized by MINFLUX"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "Mexican axolotl SIgX structure reveals conserved pIgR mediated IgX(A) mucosal transport in amphibians"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers) "Influence of Block Length and Tacticity on Polyampholyte Conformation and Phase Behavior"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mechanics of bubble bursting in dilute oil-in-water emulsions

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "In situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hua Wang - "Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines for Treating Solid Tumors"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonconventional magnets: from materials to devices"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical Seminar, "Expanding fast scan cyclic voltammetry at carbon fiber microelectrodes to new molecular spaces", Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi / Belmont 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, Raquel Pinheiro de Almeida Queiroz (Columbia U.)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thomas Trzupek, Final Defense, UIUC, "Ring Distortion of Oleanolic Acid Enables Discovery of a TrxR1 Inhibitor"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, B102 Charles G. Miller Auditorium, 601 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Charlotte Bottcher, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Charlotte Bottcher

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Energetic Materials Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  2005 Mechanical Engineering Building (JDP)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Lit Seminar, Duncan Easter, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Lit Seminar, Josh Bohl, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Brain-wide metabolomic imaging with cellular specificity," by Fan Lam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Full-time faculty at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Parker Kintigh CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Prof. Eli Pollak, Weizmann Institute of Science, "After a Century – Progress in Semiclassics and Tunneling"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Evan Hebner (Leckband) - “E-cadherin Mechanosensing Regulates Spheroid Morphology”

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Brian Fields (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis: the Rise of the Elements in the Early Universe"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Christina Li (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Xin Zhou, Harvard University, "Rewiring Cell-surface Signaling with Engineered Biologics"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• IQUIST Special Seminar: "Organic Molecules and Ultracold Atoms for a Hybrid Network," Jonathan Hood, Purdue University

  Time

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Supercon 1002

  Speaker: Jonathan Hood

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Edwin Antony (SLU School of Medicine) - "Visualizing allostery in large enzyme complexes"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Sheng Ran, Washington University

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical Seminar, "Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Scanning Ion-Conductance Microscopy: From Nanoscale Spectroscopy to Plasmon-Assisted Intracellular Delivery"Professor Naihao Chiang, University of Houston

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 7, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Shiwei Zhang

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno - Large-eddy simulation of transonic buffet with wind-tunnel confinement effects

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Devon Fontaine, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, B102 Charles G. Miller Auditorium, 601 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Assessment and Remediation of Discourse Reading Difficulties from the Information-Processing Perspective," by Professor Shuo Lu, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Shenzhen University, China

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Room 104

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Literature Seminar, Josephine Lin, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Literature Seminar, Maxim Kraniak, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Lit Seminar, Sunyu Jung, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Planetary Architectures and Insights Towards Planet Formation

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cyrus Chen CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Doug Natelson (Rice University) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• Final Defense: Jorge Calderin (Fratti Lab) - "The Detection of Vacuolar Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PI(3,4,5)P3), and its Control on SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion Through Binding Vam7 and Impacting the Assembly of Critical Membrane Microdomains."

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Reean Abdullah / Chen Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 15, 2026

• Inorganic Literature Seminar, Jinwoo Jung, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Literature Seminar, Sophia Liu, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 20, 2027

• Prakhar Bharadwaj (Meroueh Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Abhinav Masih (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, January 21, 2027

• Organic Syntheses Lecture: Professor Dirk Trauner, University of Pennsylvania, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 27, 2027

• Piyush Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Wenkan Liu (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 1, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Luyan (Lorraine) Bai / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

• Minsoo Kim (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Amgen Lecture: Amgen rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Amgen Lecture w/Professor Huw M. L. Davies, Emory University, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 5, 2027

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 8, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ansumita Biswas / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, February 9, 2027

• AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AbbVie Lecture: Professor Ruben Martin, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 10, 2027

• Brooke Bouwens (Hergenrother Lab)- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Alex Mortenson (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 12, 2027

• Professor Martin Edwards, University of Arkansas, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 15, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zheng (William) Fang / Zhao Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 17, 2027

• Prof. Renee Frontiera, University of Minnesota, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sizhe Chen (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hossein Omidi Ardali (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 19, 2027

• Professor Julia Laskin, Purdue University, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 22, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shengyi Fei / Zhao Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, Professor Austin Evans, University of Florida, TBD

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 24, 2027

• Thy Ta (Burke Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Zhiye Lu (Y. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 1, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Diptika Raut / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Marvel & Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: speakers TBD

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• Yuan Zhou (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Evan Johnson (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, March 5, 2027

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 8, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Fuson Student Talks: "Speakers TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium