Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Thursday, January 30, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: NO SEMINAR JAN. 30, 2025
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Anderson Lab, SICB talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Natural History Building Core
Recruiting Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zhengmin Cong/K. Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Lightning Talks by Entomology Faculty and Graduate Students, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 2
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Caroline Oldstone-Jackson
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Sophie Larsen, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Host heterogeneity and coronavirus dynamics: from structural inequity to immune history, Exit Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "Medullary Circuits in Satiety and Aversion: Implications for Anti-Obesity Drug Development"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - EEB Graduate Student Recruiting Event
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Tierney Brosius, Associate Professor, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL - "Insects as Fashion Influencers: A Journey Through Time and Style"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 3
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Hodges
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Cassandra Allsup, UW-Madison. "Forest Ecology and changing climates."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Dorota Porazinska , University of Florida, Antarctic cryoconite holes: a model ecosystem for microbial community research
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Sounak Saha (Jin Lab): "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Joe (Huanyu) Qiao, University of Illinois, "Meiotic Silencing is Regulated by Asynapsis Levels and Gel-like Phase Separation"

Associate Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Dept. Bioengineering, Dept. Biophysics, IGB, CCIL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Babu Neethu/Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Gene Robinson, Professor, Entomology, IGB, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"From Bird Brains to Science Diplomacy, and Back," by Timothy DeVoogd, Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Laura Gunn, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00
- 116 RAL
Evan Hebner (Leckband/Brieher lab) - "The Impact of E-cadherin in the Organization of Multicellular Spheroids."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Michael Catchen, Université de Montréal, Predicting the shifting biogeography of species interactions with machine learning
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Westcott Fellow: Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Qat Antiphage Defense Systems."
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Isaac Miller-Crews, Indiana University - Topic: Cool transcriptomics work
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Mark Lara
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Faizan Rashid/Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Kelsey Coffman, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - "When viruses turn good: parasitoid wasps as models for understanding mutualistic virus evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Homeobox genes and neuronal identity specification," by Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Michelle Facette, UMass.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab): "Shear flow patterns Antimicrobial gradients across bacterial populatoins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Andrew Gloss, University of Georgia, : Illuminating evolutionary transitions to herbivory using genomics and functional genetics
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - "Secondary messenger signaling at surfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal/Li Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Daniel Schmehl, Science Fellow, Global Pollinator Safety Expert, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Maria Salas Fernandez, Iowa State University.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Edwin Lewis, University of Idaho, Group dynamics of parasitic worms: learning from the slithering herd
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "TBA

Assistant Professor, College of Aces, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cheng Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Tracy Lawson
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Alison Ravenscraft, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Microglia regulating brain functions in development and degeneration," by Dr. Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Coralie Salesse- Smith, UIUC.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Jacob Goheen, Iowa State University, A game of thorns: how plant defense shapes predator-prey interactions in African savannas
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Michelle Samuel-Foo, Chief of Staff, USDA-NIFA, Atlanta, GA
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago. "The mode and tempo of plant adaptation to contemporary agriculture”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Elliott Zieman, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Vishnu Krishnamurthy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Alex Weiss, Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo - Topic: Non-Academic Career
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Don Ort
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Rudolph Jaenisch
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Entomology Graduate Student Appreciate Week
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging and Therapeutics," by Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, Senior investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Director, Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology at Gladstone Institutes/ UCSF
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yaowu Yuan, UConn. "How and why do plants evolve so many beautiful forms of flowers in nature?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Yuki Haba, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Wei-Chun Kao/M. Boppart Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montréal, QC
- 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 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Moeller, UMN.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "TBA:
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Fuller Lab Talks - Topic: Summer Research
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Cassandra Extavour, Professor, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Xiao Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Tie Liu, UF. “Aging, senescence, and stress in plants: what we have learned from Arabidopsis to horticultural crops”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. James P. Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: Distinct Biologies of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blockade"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransico), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Hojun Song, Professor, Texas A&M University
- 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
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yiping Qi, UMD. "Developing Genome Engineering Tools to Advance Crop Improvement"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"
- 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

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cáceres Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar:Dr. Jennifer Richer - University of Colrado Anschutz Medical Campus: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Ya Min (Minya)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder/S. Prasanth Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Tolulope (Tolu) Morawo, Entomologist, US Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Graeme Lindsey (Mehta Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Weber Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab)- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other