Morrill Hall Display Calendar

Thursday, April 2, 2026

MIP Seminar: Dr. Jimmy Dooley, Purdue University "From brainstem to cortex: REM sleep and the developmental hand-off of motor control. "

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Md Ashraf Ul Hasan, Kingston Bat Conservation Ecology Lab, "Agroforest perforations of forest remnants threaten forest interior bat diversity in a highly modified landscape "

9:00 - 9:20 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
EEB Colloquium: Isham Azar, Kingston Bat Conservation Ecology Lab, "Trait-mediated dietary partitioning in niche-packed bat communities"

9:20 - 9:40 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Susan Hafenstein (University of Minnesota) - "Structural Studies of virus and host interactions"

12:00 pm

Charles G. 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

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
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Elena Lopez Peredo, From ponds to deserts: The many faces of green microalgae diversity, Rochester Institute of Technology

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
Brooke Bouwens (Hergenrother Lab)- ""Investigating the Role of TRPM4 in ErSO-TFPy Mediated Cell Death".

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): "Structural Characterization of Avian Polymeric Antibodies: Insights into Evolutionary Divergence and Function"

10:00 am

116 RAL
- 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 - "The acoustic ecology of insect-plant interactions"

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
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Camila Pizano, Janzen-Connell effects in tropical dry forests; the interactive effects of drought and soil microbial communities on seedling growth

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "From Cold Shock to Ribosome Heterogeneity : How Bacteria Reshape The Translational Landscape Under Stress"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Affiliation Seminar- Dr. Laura Adamovicz, "Chelonian Pathogen Dynamics and Conservation"

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) - “Flow boosts antimicrobial effectiveness and patterns bacterial population gradients”

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
MIP Seminar: Dr. Ajay Jain, SSM Health, "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- 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
"Translating 3D molecular atlas to brain function and dysfunction," by Xiao Wang, PhD, Associate Professor at MIT Chemistry and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Final Defense: Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Combined effects of flow and hydrogen peroxide on bacteria."

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) - "Shear force counterintuitively enhances surface colonization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

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) - "Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow"

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 - "Let’s Get Physical: Exploring Structures That Enable Multifunctional Insect Cuticle"

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
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Ronan O'Malley, The Gene Regulatory Landscape of Flowering Plants , University of Chicago

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- 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

Monday, August 24, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day

your class
- Other

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Fall break begins

8:30 am

Swanlund Administration Building
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, November 30, 2026

Instruction resumes

All Day

I-Hotel
- Other

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day
- Other

Friday, December 11, 2026

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 18, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

All Day
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 15, 2027

Winter Session Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

All Day
- Other

Saturday, March 13, 2027

Spring Vacation Begins

1:00 pm
- Other

Monday, March 22, 2027

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other