Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 23, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nannan Lu, Ph.D., Stanford University, "Decoding Peripheral-Brain Communication: The Role of Blood Plasma Proteins in Microglial Function"

Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:15 am
- 161 NOYES
Analytical Seminar - Dr. Zhifei, Harvard University, “Understand Ion Transport and Electron Transfer for Electrochemical Energy Storage”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis

LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- A133 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory (CLSL)
NMR Walking Tour
- Exhibition
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Roel Tempelaar, Northwestern University, "Steering Spin–valley Polarizations through Phonons and Photons"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Advancing Epigenetic Profiling and Genome Editing by Enzyme Engineering"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "The renaissance of general relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Andrew Webb, Ph.D
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: TBA -- Trainee Host: Vanessa Jones/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Alex Horswill, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, "Polymicrobial Cross-talk on the Skin Limits MRSA Colonization and Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"From Bird Brains to Science Diplomacy, and Back," by Timothy DeVoogd, Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Expanding the Druggable Space by Innovative Chemical Biology Approaches"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, "Enabling Polyolefin Circularity through Melt Functionalization and Upcycling" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Autonomous Systems: Research, Real-World Applications and Effective Industry-Academia Partnerships
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Homeobox genes and neuronal identity specification," by Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Morgan Letzkus/Mera Lab and Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford). Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - "Secondary messenger signaling at surfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amie Boal, Penn State University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jesse Chi Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Janet Conrad (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Room, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Pioneers Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Savas Tay
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Frans Pretorius (Princeton), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Frank Schroeder, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Steven Eichinger/Brooke Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Rudolph Jaenisch
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging and Therapeutics," by Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, Senior investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Director, Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology at Gladstone Institutes/ UCSF
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Gargi Maheshwari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Tom Soh, Stanford University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "Implantable and Portable D-Amino Acid Biosensors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- RAL 116
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin
- 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 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Elizabeth Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. James P. Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: Distinct Biologies of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blockade"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransico), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)
- 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: Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 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
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar:Dr. Jennifer Richer - University of Colrado Anschutz Medical Campus: "TBA"
- 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, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 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

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

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 Spring 2025 Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

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