Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Friday, September 4, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Grad Handbook - New Students Only"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Wilfred Tang and Jaden Rankin, Grad Students, Suarez Lab, UIU

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Topological Brain Maps and the Shape of Thought," by Marty Sereno, Emeritus Professor Psychology, San Diego State University Adjunct Professor Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shrunali Amin / Sokac Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sara Ruane, Field Museum of Natural History, "Museums Collections as a Backbone for Contemporary Science"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• MIP Seminar: Dr. Felix Chan, University of Birmingham "'Targeting brain metabolism to treat rare genetic epilepsies"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 11, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Milton Tan, INHS, "Preliminary Work on Understanding the Taxonomic, Morphological, and Genomic Diversity of North America’s Dominant Vertebrate Radiation (Leuciscidae)"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "Phospho-BRD4 IDR-Targeting Compounds as Antiviral and Anticancer Agents"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Minxue Liu / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Dylan Schultz, Postdoc, Doremus Lab, UIUC - "Not like the others: Uncovering the genes involved in cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by the endosymbiont Cardinium hertigii in Encarsia parasitoids"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Neural mechanisms of group living," by Aubrey M. Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program, Emory University

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Joseph Walker, University of Illinois Chicago, "Herbarium RNA as a Source of Evolutionary Insights"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Zihan Chu (Climer Lab) "Hippocampal Representational Drift in Memory Processing" & Hannah Eichenberger (M. Gillette Lab) "Modulation of Tight Junction Proteins and Neuroinflammation at the Blood-Brain Interface Under Environmental Circadian Disruption"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Rob Kanter, SESE, "Environmental Writing and the Natural History of Central Illinois"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Translation beyond Initiation, Elongation and Termination"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• "Mechanisms of monogamy: Neural and genomic foundations of social memory and attachment in prairie voles," Kimberly Long, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Tracey Tuberville, University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab, "Conservation Takeaways from Stalking North America’s Tortoises"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Josh Gibson, Beckman Institute Microscopy Suite, "Close Encounters of the Microscopic Kind: A Tour of Beckman's Microscopy Suite"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "Enhanced FIB-SEM: A High-Resolution 3D Imaging Platform for Biology"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Elena Gratton, Research Specialist / Grad Student, Dolezal Lab, Entomology, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Human 2D neurons and 3D brain organoid models for understanding brain development and neurological disorders," by Guo-li Ming Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, University of Chicago, "Where Science Meets Story: Engaging Audiences Through the Arts"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Hammad Bajwa, EEB Postdoc Talk, "Approaches in Tracking Patterns, Places, and Pathways of Disease"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

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

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• ENT Faculty-Grad Student Townhall Discussion (for Entomology Dept. grad students and faculty only)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Meeting

  

• "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

  

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

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Bernie Kuhajda, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, "The Southeast’s Aquatic Biodiversity: Why it Rocks!"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Aaron Goodman, Entomology Postdoc, UIUC, "AI in Species Distribution Modeling (SDM): Methods, Applications, and Emerging Trends"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • 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

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Matt O'Neal, Professor, Iowa State University

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • 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

  

• 2026 Entomology Alumni / Department Potluck Picnic

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

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

  • Social/Informal Event

  

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

  

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Eric Gulson-Castillo, UIUC EEB Department, "From Senses to Songs: The Evolution of Complexity in Birds Across Scales"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Group Discussion, "Graduate Student Townhall"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

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

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - James Crall, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • 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

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Madhusree Seal (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Robin Warne, UIUC Prairie Research Institute, "The Gut, the Bad, and the Hungry: Microbial Mediation of Nutrients, Immunity & Survival"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Katy Denise Heath, Plant Biology UIUC, "Mutualisms: Plants and Rhizobia Co-Evolution"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • 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

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Ifeoma Ozodiegwu, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • 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

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Stephanie Porter, Washington State University Vancouver, "Adaptation in Symbioses: Mobile Genetic Elements, Microbes, and the Plants that Host Them"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Final Defense - Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  124 Burrill Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Princeton Vaughn, Princeton University, Tour of Champions, "Adaptation on Repeat: Wildlife Responses to Human-Driven Change"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang / Brieher Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - ESA Practice Talks

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• SfN Preview Poster Night

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute Atrium

  • Exhibition

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jenny Heppert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Are you my microbe? What insect-killing nematodes and their bacteria can teach us about symbiosis?”

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Andrew Dillin (University of California Berkeley ) - "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  180 Bevier Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Akane Hatsuda, EEB Postdoc Talk, "Brain Metabolism and Honey Bee Aggression"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Navdeep Chandel (Northwestern University) - " Mitochondrial signaling in physiology and disease"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• "Illuminating neurochemical signaling with non-genetically encoded sensors," by Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Lauren Otolski, UIUC PEEC, "The Effects of Wood and Soil Nutrients on Tropical Wood Decomposition"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Emily Laub, Bell Lab, "Variation in Stickleback Social Networks Across Ecotypes"

  Time

  9:00 - 9:20 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• EEB Colloquium: Francis Dihn, Bell Lab, "Population Structure of the Canadian Maritimes' Sticklebacks"

  Time

  9:20 - 9:40 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

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

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Annaliese Wargin, Grad Student Exit Seminar, Harmon-Threatt Lab, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Iris Holmes, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "Quantifying the Impact of Reporting Bias on Inferences about Zoonotic Pathogen Ecology and Evolution"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: EEB Community: Discussion of AI in Science

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Fall break begins

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

  • Other

  

• 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

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• "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

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Nídia S. Trovão, UIUC VetMed, "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Christina Li (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: SICB / ASN Practice Talks

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Neuroscience Program's Winter Holiday Party

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union's South Lounge

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Rachel Mueller, Colorado State University, "What Sets the Upper Bound on Animal Cell Size?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• Final Defense: Jorge Calderin (Fratti Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Final Exams Begin

  Time

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

  

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

  

Friday, December 18, 2026

• First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  Time

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Friday, January 15, 2027

• Winter Session Final Exams Begin

  Time

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Wednesday, January 20, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Jeannette Cullum, UIUC PEEC, "Disturbing Disease: Anthropogenic Stressors Shape Short- and Long-term Disease Dynamics in Daphnia"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, January 22, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Arianna Kuhn, INHS, "From Madagascar to Museum Collections: Using Snake Genomics to Understand Evolution and Conservation"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 27, 2027

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Brent Hawkins, UIUC EEB Department, "Zebrafish Models of Key Anatomical Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Shasta Kamara, UIUC PEEC, "Quantifying Paddlefish Physiological Responses to Temperature and Latitudinal Variation"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 5, 2027

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

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • 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

  

Wednesday, February 10, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Vivian Cheng, UIUC PEEC, "Narwhals of Past and Present: Combining Museomics and Archival History"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Hollis Woodard, UC Riverside, "The Future of US Bee Conservation"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 19, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Graduate Student Invited Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, UTK, "Lessons About Diversity and Coexistence from the Salamander Capital of the World"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • 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

  

Wednesday, February 24, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Ilana Zeitzer, UIUC PEEC, "Exploring the Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Mutualism Through Native Illinois Prairie Plants - Looking Beyond Biomass"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Jonah Dominguez, UIUC PEEC, "Ghosts that We Knew: Avian Communication Across Species and Continents"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

  

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Michelle Wong, Yale University, "Plant Strategies in Response to Nutrient Limitation in Tropical and Temperate Forests"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, March 13, 2027

• Spring Vacation Begins

  Time

  1:00 pm

  • Other

  

Monday, March 22, 2027

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  7:00 am

  • Other

  

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Divisha Biswas / Sokac

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 24, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Michelle Gaynor, Florida State University, "Ecological and Evolutionary Impacts of Whole Genome Duplication in Flowering Plants" 

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 29, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Connor Powers / Smith-Bolton Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 31, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. William Sanders, University of Michigan, "The Enigmatic Phylogeny of the Iconic African Plio-Pleistocene Elephant Elephas recki"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 2, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Abby Weber, EEB, Graduate Student Exit Seminar and Final Defense, "Evolution of Pins & Needles: Exploring the Physical Parameters of Host Materials as Drivers of Parasitoid Wasp Ovipositor Morphological Diversity"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 12, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Cecilia Sun / Ceman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 14, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Solomon David, University of Minnesota, "Modern Conservation Insights from Ancient Fishes"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 16, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Timothy Legare, EEB, "Killifish Speciation"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 19, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Youyang Wang / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 21, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Isaiah Goertz, UIUC PEEC, "History of Locally Derived Plasmid-bound Gene Modules in a Co-housed Swine Population"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 23, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Rowan French, Indiana University, Tour of Champions, "Evolution of Beetle Antennae"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 26, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jacob Yan / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 28, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Katie Fitzgerald, UIUC PEEC, "Ecology and Health of Temperate Bats in Missouri"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 30, 2027

• EEB Colloquium: Annika Bagazinski, EEB, Thesis Defense

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, May 3, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Yiran Zhang / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

• Instruction Ends

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

  

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Fahren Zackery, UIUC PEEC, "Microbial Ecology and Human Health: Exploring Diversity, Disease, and Microbiome Dynamics"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, May 6, 2027

• Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

  

Friday, May 7, 2027

• Final Exams Begin

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Saturday, May 15, 2027

• Commencement

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Monday, May 17, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Monday, June 14, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  Time

  All Day

  • Other