Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

First Year Project Presentations - Group 4

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Faculty Search Candidate

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Mingyuan Zhu

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
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) - "Targeting Non-neuroendocrine Lung Cancer with SMIRIB: An Integrative Functional and Transcriptomic Study"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Dr. Meaghan Clark, [Hybrid] "Genomic and demographic data reveal the evolutionary trajectories of wild populations in the face of environmental change"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 23, 2026

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

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anusmita Biswas / Freeman Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Corlett Wood, Integrating beneficial symbioses into defense ecology and evolution, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Thursday, February 26, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Catherine Christian-Hinman, UIUC, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Amanda Martinez, "Conservation genomics of the critically endangered Louisiana Pinesnake”

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
EEB Colloquium: Kaitlin Karl, "Pitvipers in Peril: Evolutionary Resilience and Risk in Two North American Rattlesnake Species"”

9:20 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yang Hai (University of California Santa Barbara) - "Natural product discovery, biosynthesis, and biocatalysis."

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 2, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi / Belmont Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Marianne Alleyne, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC - "Jump, Glide, Fly, and Roll: Understanding Insect Locomotion Through Engineered Models"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Mechanisms underlying perception and mnemonic interaction in the human brain," by Adam Steel, Assistant Professor, Psychology

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: William Fang / Zhao Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Final Defense: Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Accelerating Vaccine Design Through Antibody Discovery and High-Throughput Immunofocused Antigen Engineering"

3:00 pm

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 9, 2026

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

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Kevin Johnson, Principal Ornithologist, INHS, UIUC - "Phylogenomics and cophylogenomics of lice at multiple scales"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Understanding Individual Variation in Cortical Dynamics: A Computational Approach," by Matthew Singh, Dept. of Statistics, University of Illinois; Beckman Institute

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- 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
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- 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

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 23, 2026

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shengyi Fei / Zhao Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - "High-throughput profiling of the arms race between antibodies and viral antigens."

3:00 pm

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Laramy Enders, Associate Professor, Purdue University

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"The proximate (including neural!) basis of evolutionary divergence in paternal care in sticklebacks," by Alison Bell, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Hina Ahmad / Gillette Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
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

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

Monday, March 30, 2026

Final Defense: Rachel Martini (van der donk Lab) - "Discovery and Characterization of Glycocin and Lanthipeptide Natural Products"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Lorraine Bai / Li Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense: Junyao Zhou (Shapiro Lab) - "A Novel Pathway Controlling the Anticancer Therapy-induced Immunogenic Cell Death"

2:00 pm

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Circadian clocks in brain aging and Alzheimer's Disease," by Erik S. Musiek, MD, PhD, Charlotte & Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium
Investiture of Dr. Tigga Kingston as Chair of the Shelford-Pitelka-Batzli Professorship in Mammalian Ecology

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Illini Union South Lounge
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

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

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Jimmy Dooley, Purdue University "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 6, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Laura Ingwell, Associate Professor, Purdue University

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Multiplexed connectomic imaging of brain microcircuits in health and disease," by Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 4269**
- 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

Thursday, April 9, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Evangelos Kiskinis, Northwestern University "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense: Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller Lab): "TBA"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Tamas Balla (NIH) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 13, 2026

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

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Rex Cocroft, Professor, University of Missouri

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Regulating CNS Border Security," by Tony Filiano, PhD, Associated Professor of Neurosurgery, Duke University

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- 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

9th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai / Chen Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- 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

Final Defense: Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Thursday, April 23, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Avtar Roopra, University Wisconsin-Madison, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joe Sanfilippo (UIUC) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Gene Yeo / UC San Diego

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Thursday, April 30, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Mitchell Roitman, University Illinois Chicago, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

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

Monday, May 4, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Surabhi Sonam / UIUC

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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
MIP Seminar: Dr. Micah Schott, University of Nebraska Medical Center, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

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

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

All Day
- Other