Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Master Calendar

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

- 4:00 pm
Nonlinear Oscillators: Information, Dynamics, & Music
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Chen-Yu Liu (UIUC): "Goldilocks and the three bears or: How we made the most precise neutron lifetime measurement and why."
- Lecture

Friday, February 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CANCELLED: Professor Adam Cohen, Harvard University, "Optical tools for mapping brain dynamics: from synapses to circuits"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Natural convection in a cylindrical cavity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 pm
- B102 Chem Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)
Timothy Precord, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigation of Radical SAM-Mediated Thioether Installation in RiPP Natural Products"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 6, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Bioinspired Multifunctional Soft Materials with Unusual Electromechanical Properties for Soft Bioelectronics
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

- 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
BIOE 500 Seminar: Shreya Saxena, Ph.D., University of Florida
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of choanoflagellate cell physiology

Nicole King, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department of Genetics, Genomics and Development; University of California, Berkeley "Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of choanoflagellate cell physiology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentation - Ellie Bacon, Jilai Cui, Jonathan Cerna, Chen Huang, and Urbi Saha
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sangeetha Ramesh/Mitchell Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Midwest Mechanics Seminar 2022-2023: Dynamic Strength of Energetic Material Simulants: Experiments and Modeling
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Kamau Grantham, University of Illinois Counseling Center
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physic Colloquium: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins), Title: Hubble trouble and the early Universe
- Lecture

Thursday, February 9, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Sean Fanning, Loyola University, "Unconventional Antagonists Reveal Novel Estrogen Receptor Structure-Transcriptional Relationships in Breast Cancer"

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Keith Gagnon (SIU-C), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 13, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Textiles for Soft Wearable Robotics
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

- 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
- 2310 Everitt Laboratory
BIOE 500 Seminar: Edgar Peña, Ph.D., Duke University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Machine learning for spatial genomics

Jian Ma, PhD Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science; Carnegie Mellon University "Machine learning for spatial genomics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentation - Jake Maxon, Laura Rosok, Rafael Gonzalez-Ricon, Martin Irani and Usan Dan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Nic Handy/Wilson Lab and Tongyu "Tony" Liu/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:35 pm
CDB Student Seminar - Gabriela Hernandez / Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
CDB Student Seminar - Yunshu Song / Stubbs Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Siewert-Jan Marrink, University of Groningen, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of an Entire Cell"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Chemistry Library
2022 SCS Science Image Challenge Award Ceremony

A ceremony celebrating the winners and finalists in the 2022 School of Chemical Sciences Science Image Challenge. SCS Director Dr. Paul Kenis will deliver remarks around 4:30 p.m.
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Micromechanics of particular soft matter: the governing role of inter-particle interactions
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Kate Scholberg (Duke University), Title: Scattering in Neutrino Alley
- Lecture

Thursday, February 16, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Ilia Karatsoreos, UMass, "Biological Clocks in Health and Disease"

Associate Professor, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
CBITG Seminar: Adrian Keatinge-Clay, University of Texas-Austin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Professor Adrian Keatinge-Clay, The University at Texas at Austin, "Engineering Polyketide Synthases Using the Correct Module Boundary"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 17, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Multi-Scale Textured Surface Designs with Passive Anti-Frosting Capabilities
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 20, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Daniel Hu, Genetech, Buck Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Artificial Organ Fabrication by Recreating Physiological Environments
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

- 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
BIOE 500 Seminar: Yuan Yang, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The Macro-Dynamics of the History of U.S. Oversight for Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Environment : What have we learned?

Jennifer Kuzma, PhD Goodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, Genetic Engineering & Society Center; North Carolina State University "The Macro-Dynamics of the History of U.S. Oversight for Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Environment : What have we learned?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"fMRI of cortical layers and neurovascular coupling in humans and animals," Jozien Goense, Department of Psychology, Department of Bioengineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Lucy Chou Zheng/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Matthew Georgiou/Slauch Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Pei-Ciao Tang, University of Miami
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins), Title: The future of gravitational-wave astronomy: challenges and opportunities
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Systematic manipulation of structural disorder for extraordinary mechanical function in materials
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 23, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Aisha Burton, National Institutes of Health -- "Small but Mighty: Small Proteins and Bacterial Stress Responses"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joel McManus (Carnegie Mellon University), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Paola Mera (UIUC) "It’s all about communication: how bacteria coordinate their life cycles"
- Lecture

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Spatial Omics Initiative / Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling working group

The Spatial Omics Initiative / CAIM monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, and to facilitate the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods.
- Meeting

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

- 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
- 2310 Everitt Laboratory
BIOE 500 Seminar: Multi-Color Ultrasound Molecular Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentation - Allison Louie, Shelby Martell, Meghan Connolly, Eunyoung Kim, and Jinyan Zhou
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tongyu "Anna" Zhang/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 10:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Charles Bou-Nader (Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Haiting Ma, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Matt Jones, Rice University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Mike Crommie (Berkeley), Title TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, March 2, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Aijun Wang, UC Davis, "TBA"

Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Elisia Meyle, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Peggy Cotter, University of North Carolina -- "Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin: a phagocyte-specific toxin delivery system?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Tianchi Xin, Yale University, School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Kehl-Fie Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Tuning landscapes of the primate ventral stream," by Carlos R. Ponce, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Erin Jimenez, NIH
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Peter Rossky, Rice University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Lecture

Thursday, March 9, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Angie Salles, UIC, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Yonatan Grad, Harvard University -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 10, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 11, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- Academic Date
2023 Spring Semester: Spring Break Begins
- Other

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

- All Day
Tuesday Neuroscience Seminar - SPRING BREAK
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

- 4:00 pm
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Lecture

Monday, March 20, 2023

- 7:00 am
- Academic Date
2023 Spring Semester: Instruction Resumes
- Other

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Tsapatsis, Johns Hopkins University (Su), "Manufacturing of Metal-Organic Framework Membranes "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Mireille Farjo/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
Tuesday Neuroscience Seminar, Heather Read, University of Connecticut
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Esteban Orellana
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Cynthia Keeler (Arizona State University), Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, March 23, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Lori Zeltser, Columbia University, "TBA"

Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling working group

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) monthly working group facilitates the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods, covering such topics as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, biomolecular networks in space and time explored using single-cell biophysics, microbiome dynamics and methods for control, and cancer genomics.
- Meeting

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

- 4:00 pm
"Development of Expert-level Classification of Seizures and Rhythmic and Periodic Patterns During EEG Interpretation," by Jimeng Sun, Professor, Computer Science and Health Innovation, Professor, Carle's Illinois College of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Haiyan Gao (Duke University), Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Martin Myers, University of Michigan "TBA"

Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Susan Lovett, Brandeis University -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 3, 2023

- All Day
- Academic Date
2023 Spring Semester: Instruction Ends
- Other

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Brain-behavior evolution in dogs and foxes," Erin E. Hecht, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: John Schneider/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, April 6, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Brad Rothberg, Temple University "TBA"

Professor, Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nohemy Celis Chance, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Doran, University of Colorado -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Professor Sara Sawyer, University of Colorado, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 7, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
6th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 10, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Spatial Omics Initiative working group

The Spatial Omics Initiative monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, jointly with CAIM.
- Meeting