Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Richard & Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering Xinchang Yao

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Our Shared Stories" (2025 AIP Andrew Gemant Award)

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineered Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editors"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar: "Small-Molecule Based Cellular Reprogramming to Control Stem Cell Fate"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense - PhD - Saeed Ahmad

1:00 pm

Everitt 2100
- Other
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Microbial messengers in pregnancy: how commensals and pathogens shape the fetal brain"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
The challenge of invasive fish in streams: some lessons from laboratory experiments

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium
"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 8, 2025

East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Illini Union
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow "

1:00 - 1:50 pm

157 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Deciphering antibody sequences

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Decoding the Cellular Mechanisms Responsible for Traumatic Brain Injury

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
"Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Sudin Bhattacharya

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm

W109 Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Data-driven polymeric constitutive equations: Can GENERIC help machine-learning discover?

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Nick Polizzi, Harvard University, "Understanding and Manipulating Immune Modulation by the Microbiome"

1:30 - 5:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Steve McAleavey

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene.

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University, "Making it Stick: Applications of Covalent Activity Based Probes"

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

NO SEMINAR: UIUC Thanksgiving Break

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

"Molecular Determinants of Prion Disease; A Guide to Therapeutic Development?" by James A. Mastrianni, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Program, Helen McLoraine Neuroscientist of the Brain Research Foundation, The University of Chicago

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Professor Ketul Popat

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao) "Scalable Approaches to Study and Engineer Immune Receptors"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The Physics Colloquium Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 12, 2025

Final Defense - PhD - Gangwon Jeong

10:00 am

Everitt 1103
- Other

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 20, 2025

ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

10:00 - 11:00 am

Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Reception/Open House

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

BIOE Seminar Series: Ruixuan Gao

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Lukas Muechler, Penn State, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Donald McDonnell, Duke University, "TBD"

12:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 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

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Danielle Mai, Stanford University, "TBD"

2:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Brent Stockwell, Columbia University "TBD"

4:00 pm

TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern, "TBD"

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University

2:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

TBD, Professor Henry White, The University of Utah

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Robert Lazenby, Florida State University

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

GF Smith Lecture, TBD, Professor Joseph Wang, University of California San Diego

4:00 pm

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 15, 2026

TBD, Professor David Issadore, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium