Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it

  Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm

  Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • RAL 116

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin: "Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology for a Sustainable Future"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack D'Amelio , UIUC, "Capturing Crystallinity over Length and Time Scales"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • **Beckman Institute 5602**

  "Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with the Core: An Introduction to the LSM 980

  "An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "Inhibitory decline in recurrent neural networks: behavioral effects, clinical consequences, and potential therapies"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  The Science and Practice of Team Science: Panel and Reception

  Panel, 12:00-1:00pm ​180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Medical Sciences Bldg 274

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "Shaping the Future Shapers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • RAL 116

  Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk

  Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  A Soft Material Paradigm To Address Energy-Water Nexus Challenges

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Alexandre Bisson, Brandeis University, "Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Model for Developmental Mechanobiology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Xin Yu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 105 Noyes Laboratory

  SCS Academic Advising and Career Services Open House

  • Reception/Open House
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University "TBA"

  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Lunch with CNRG: Generative AI

  "Generative AI" Chris Panumpabi, CNRG Conference & Events Audio/Visual Specialist

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Harnessing Fluid Mechanics for Single-Cell Manipulation in Personalized Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Acoustic and Spectral Imaging

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102

  2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with the Core - Creating Art of Science

  "Creating Art of Science" Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Grainger Library - Grainger Commons 233/235

  Final Defense - PhD - Ananthan Nambiar

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Fellows Symposium

  Learn about IGB research, hear about current issues in the life sciences, and connect with others at the poster session at the 2025 Fellows Symposium.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "“Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial innate immunity”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana, IL

  Art of Science 15: AERENCHYMA - Opening Reception

  The IGB’s Art of Science program is a celebration of the common ground between science and art. Images from Illinois research were the starting point for these works, which were created by researchers working in partnership with IGB artist Julia Pollack. These pieces are the result of conversations between the scientists and the artist.

  • Exhibition

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 161 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with CNRG - Ask CNRG: General Q and A

  "Ask CNRG: General Q and A" CNRG Staff

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:00 am
  • Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Illini Union - room ABC

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, June 5, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets

  "The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX

  "Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium