Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Master Calendar
Monday, September 23, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Nathalie Pochet, PhD Broad Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Neurology "AMARETTO for network biology and medicine: linking diseases, drivers, targets and drugs via graph-based fusion of multi-omics, clinical, imaging and perturbation data"
While there is general agreement about which patches of cortex are involved in reading words, there is extensive debate about the type of cognitive comptutation carried out in those patches.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Current crop models predict an increasing gap between food supply and demand over the next 50 years. Technology is needed to predict the fitness of existing germplasm in response to global change, and also to design of crop ideotypes. I will highlight our efforts to generate virtual plant models that capture whole system dynamics in response to in silico environmental and
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
John Glass, PhD J. Craig Venter Institute; Professor and Leader of the Synthetic Biology & Bioenergy Group
"Even a Moon Shot Needs a Flight Plan: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration" Dr. Alondra Nelson President, Social Science Research Council Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
There are significant concerns about the reproducibility of scientific results across many fields including neuroimaging. This talk will discuss the source of these problems and outline a set of approaches to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
The metastatic spread of tumors to distant organs is responsible for more than 90% of cancer-related deaths. Malignant cells that detach from a primary tumor and spread through the bloodstream are called circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Analysis of CTCs collected from blood holds promise as a repeatable and minimally invasive alternative for tissue biopsies. However, widesp
Thursday, October 3, 2019
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar
Friday, October 4, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Jay Keasling, PhD University of California Berkeley College of Chemistry; Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Antibodies act as a nexus between innate and adaptive immunity: they provide a means to target the potent toxic activities of a spectrum of innate immune effector cells in order to clear viral particles and infected cells. This functional landscape is remarkably complex, with multiple antibody variants directed to multiple epitopes on multiple viral antigens. This diversit
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
The event will recognize recipients of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Awards and graduate students who have won fellowships. 4 p.m.: Ceremony 5 p.m.: Reception
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Kevin White, PhD President of Tempus Labs Inc.; Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Medicine, University of Chicago
The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar
Friday, October 18, 2019
The Graduate Research Symposium allows graduate students to present their work in the form of either a poster or an oral presentation. Research areas include a range of topics. Judges are alumni from industry and academia.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Maja Bucan, PhD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Professor, Department of Genetics
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar
Friday, October 25, 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of CLSL
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Trudy Mackay, PhD Clemson University; Professor, Department of Genetics and Biochemistry
There has been a surge in technologies to observe how genes and proteins change in the brain during disease. I will describe a new method, DART (drugs acutely restricted by tethering), to rapidly restrict drugs to genetically defined neurons in behaving mice. The approach offers a new way to establish causal circuit and molecular substrates of normal and aberrant behavior.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Microbial strains have been successfully engineered to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds, several of which have been commercialized. As new products are targeted for biological synthesis, yield is frequently considered a primary driver towards determining feasibility. Theoretical yields can be calculated, establishing an upper limit on the potential conversion
Thursday, October 31, 2019
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar
Friday, November 1, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
In this talk I will describe ongoing work focused on how the experiences of both mothers and fathers can induce epigenetic, neurobiological and behavioral effects and the interactive and multigenerational consequences of these effects.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Advisor: Prof. Wilfred van der Donk
This talk will focus on the role of the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), the first itch-specific receptor identified in the spinal cord, in itch transmission. He will also discuss about the differences between itch and pain sensations.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
There are currently no effective approaches to treat presbyopia, the unavoidable age-related loss of the ability of the eye to accommodate (i.e., to change focus). Most of the current strategies for the correction of presbyopia rely on the assumption that presbyopia is due mainly to age-related changes in the mechanical properties of the crystalline lens of the eye. Howeve
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
A chemistry-wide undergraduate research conference.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Spontaneous physical activity (SPA) behavior, or the drive to move, is initiated by brain centers and could therefore be therapeutically targeted. A major goal of our work is to understand the brain circuitry driving SPA, so that obesity therapies based on SPA can be considered.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
While many animals use the earth's magnetic field to navigate their environment, much remains unknown about its molecular and cellular basis. We will present insights into the behavioral, cellular, and molecular basis for magnetoreception yielded by the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will hold a winter convocation ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, in Room 116 of Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 South Mathews Ave., Urbana. More information about registration and the convocation speaker will be shared here when it becomes available.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Monday, February 3, 2020
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Biologics, products produced from living organisms, have revolutionized treatment of disease. Examples of FDA-approved biologics include therapeutic proteins (e.g. blood clotting factors and antibodies), engineered viruses for gene therapy, and cell therapies. Biologics are addressing previous unmet medical needs, but are challenging to manufacture and therefore high in co
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Stepping towards this goal of incorporating biochemical data into ASD diagnosis, we analyzed measurements of metabolite concentrations of the folate-dependent one-carbon metabolism and transulfuration pathways taken from blood samples of 83 participants with ASD and 76 age-matched neurotypical peers. Fisher Discriminant Analysis enabled multivariate classification of the p