Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Friday, January 16, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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  PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 23, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Mentoring Sessions"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Tai Josek, Microscopist, Beckman Institute, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

• 

  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Julia Jehn, EEB, "Plant Defenses"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Juan Du (Northwestern) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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  Lightning Talks by Entomology Faculty and Graduate Students

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Working together for sustainable bat diversity in a changing world: The Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Yiran Zheng (Chen Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, Julian Catchen, and Grads, EEB, "Graduate Recruiting"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

• 

  ENT Faculty-Grad Student Discussion (for Entomology Dept. Faculty and Students only please) - NO speaker Colloquium

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Meeting

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Bell Lab members, EEB, "Stickleback Behavior"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Andrew Jones (Duke University) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Kasey Fowler-Finn, Professor, St. Louis University

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, "Evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms as a driver for cell type expansions in animals"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Tour of Champions, Meaghan Clark, "Rattlesnake conservation"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Dominic Evangelista, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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  Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Wenkan Liu (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Katie Karl and Amanda Martinez, "Conservation Genomics of Herps"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yang Hai (University of California Santa Barbara) - "Natral product discovery, biosynthesis, and biocatalysis."

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Marianne Alleyne, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

• 

  Madhusree Seal (Stadtmueller Lab)

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Kevin Johnson, Principal Ornithologist, INHS, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

• 

  PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris, "Interdisciplinarity and Museum Collections in the Study of Cockroach Evolution"

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Alex Mortenson (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 13, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: EEB, "Coffee Hour"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• 

  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

• 

  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Laramy Enders, Associate Professor, Purdue University

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• 

  Andy Briercheck (Y. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Abhinav Masih (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Ed Newcomer, "Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Nonacademic career, Conservation Stings"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Dianne Newman (CalTech) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Peter Marting, Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University - "Morphogenesis, organization, and defense of Honey bee nests"

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Agustin Fuentes, Princeton University, "Sex is bodies, behaviors & lives: the biological limits of the binary and the benefits of a spectrum approach"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Hossein Omidi Ardali (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Laura Ingwell, Associate Professor, Purdue University

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• 

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Brooke Bouwens (Hergenrother Lab)- "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Dr. Tamas Balla (NIH) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Rex Cocroft, Professor, University of Missouri

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• 

  Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Minsoo Kim (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

• 

  Final Defense: Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  10:00 am

  419 RAL (Rose Room)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Anne Aka, EEB, UV Coloration and Vision in Fish

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

• 

  No Entomology Colloquium - ESA North Central Branch Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa

  All Day

  • Other

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

• 

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Piyush Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Pelham Kogut (van der Donk Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Elizabeth Bello, Grad Student Exit Seminar, Entomology, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Amy Toth, Iowa State University, "Remote Control of Complex Social Behavior from Outside of the Brain: Lessons from Functional Genomics in Wasps"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Zixiao Li (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  4:00 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  4:30 pm

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, EEB, "ASN Presidential Address Practice Talk"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Parisa Hosseinzadeh (University of Oregon) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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  Entomology Colloquium - Josephine Rodriguez, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Virginia at Wise

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  2025-2026 Entomology Alumni / Department Potluck Picnic

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Crystal Lake Park Lake House, 206 West Park Street, Urbana, IL

  Please bring a dish to share, and label ingredients for food allergens. Family members and significant others are welcome. Our alumna speaker, Dr. Josephine Rodriguez, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Virginia at Wise, will join us.

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• 

  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• 

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Juan Guan (University of Texas) - "TBA"

  12:00 pm

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 

  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other