Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Master Calendar
Monday, August 20, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Friday, August 24, 2018
Saturday, August 25, 2018
All new engineering undergraduate students are invited to attend an afternoon of inspiring talks and engaging activities, which represents their official college-wide welcome to the Illinois Engineering family. Formerly separated into two events, Launch! and Freshman Fest, this year’s activities have been merged into one big event.
Monday, August 27, 2018
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Dominique Bergmann, PhD Stanford University, Department of Biology "Adjusting the Valves: Optimizing Stomata for a Changing World"
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Lab Interests: Liver injury and repair: To learn more about the mechanisms that regulate this process, we study cultured cells, animal models of acute and chronic liver damage and samples from patients with various types of liver disease. Our group also conducts clinical trials in patients with chronic liver disease. We are particularly interested in fatty liver disease
Friday, August 31, 2018
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Advisor: Prof. Wilfred van der Donk
I will describe the engineering of molecular tools to read and write neuronal function with light, with the goal of investigating how neuronal circuits function and adapt in the context of the living brain.
The School of Chemical Sciences Advising Team is hosting a welcome event for all incoming undergraduate first year and transfer students in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and CS+Chemistry on Tuesday, September 4 from 6 to 7:30pm in 117 RAL. Our featured guests at the event will be current RSO leaders and members from AIChE, ACS, OXE.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Dr. Carpenter is senior director of the Imaging Platform at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also an institute scientist. With a strong background in cell biology, microscopy, and computational biology, her expertise is in developing and applying methods for extracting quantitative information from biological images, especially in a high-throughput manner.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Research Interests: Epilepsy; autism; neurodevelopmental disease
Friday, September 7, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
KCNQ2/3 channels have arisen as critical regulators of neonatal brain excitability. Highlighting the importance of these channels, a growing number of loss- and gain-of-function variants in Kcnq2/3 have been reported in patients with severe neonatal epileptic encephalopathy. In this seminar, we will discuss our recent progress in deciphering the function of KCNQ2/3 channel
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Jakobsson's Beckman Institute research areas include: Computer-aided design of components for nanodevices, structure of biological membranes, structure-function relationships in biological and synthetic ion channels, computer-aided drug research, comparative genomics of microbes, use of technology to introduce quantitative approaches to biology education.
Professor Mark Hauber presents “Tracking the Neuroecology of Avian Recognition Systems for Self and Others.”
Friday, September 14, 2018
This town hall will discuss renewable energy, clean jobs, and other environmental issues with four panelists with experience in policy and technology.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Harmit S. Malik, PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center "Rules of Engagement: Molecular Arms-Races Between Primate and Viral Genomes"
AKT is a central kinase implicated by genetics in neurological disorders and diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and glioblastoma. AKT also regulates numerous intracellular signaling pathways affecting a myriad of neuronal processes, such as protein synthesis dependent synaptic plasticity. Importantly, it is expressed in the brain as three distinct isofor
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Dr. Walz is interested in processes that involve biological membranes, ranging from vesicular transport that distributes cargo molecules throughout the cell to the effects of lipids on the structure and function of membrane proteins.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
The Beckman Institute will once again be a host site for McKinley Health Center’s annual Flu Clinic, offering free flu shots for benefit eligible students and state employees.
What they do How do neurons in neocortex work in concert to encode the natural world, construct a representation of its behaviorally relevant content, and coordinate behavior based on those representations? This is a complex problem that we are addressing in multiple ways, with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
Friday, September 21, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Outpacing Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium - Join researchers in a two day symposium devoted to understanding and beating antibacterial resistant microbes at the University of Illinois, September 24 - 25 2018.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Outpacing Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium - Join researchers in a two day symposium devoted to understanding and beating antibacterial resistant microbes at the University of Illinois, September 24 - 25 2018.
Dr. Golshani has built new open-source miniaturized microscopes for imaging network dynamics in freely behaving mice. He is using these tools to image how hippocampal place cell ensembles become unstable in models of epilepsy.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Research Interest: The liver is a vital organ with a wide range of functions, including detoxification of various metabolites, protein synthesis, synthesis of bile acids, and, broadly, regulation of metabolism. Our laboratory's goal is to understand how these processes are regulated within the liver.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Learning to fear threats in the environment is critical for survival, but often leads to mental illnesses including PTSD. Once learned, traumatic memories can be suppressed—though this is often short-lived. New work reveals how brain circuits that make and break traumatic memories function to regulate fear and its relapse.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Professor Brad Sutton presents “Title."
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Synaptic plasticity underlies circuit refinement and memory formation. The NMDA-type glutamate receptor plays a central role in this process. I will discuss its function, trafficking, and a novel mechanism of regulation via Wnt signaling.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Monday, October 15, 2018
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
A symposium on the topic of energy and the environment in honor of Theodore “Ted” Brown, the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
The brain is fueled by nutrition; individual needs for nutrients are, in part, based on genetics. Dr. Cheatham will present data from an infant electrophysiology study that will illustrate two points: maternal genetics are an important consideration in infant brain development, and nutrients work synergistically to support brain function.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The World of Genomics will be showcased from October 18-20, 2018, at the St. Louis Science Center, one of America’s most visited museums and a destination for all ages with an interest in learning about science and technology.
Our long-term goal is to understand the transcriptional regulatory network in metabolism. We are currently pursuing two major projects. MLL3/4 complexes in transcription and Central roles of glucocorticoid in metabolism.
Friday, October 19, 2018
The World of Genomics will be showcased from October 18-20, 2018, at the St. Louis Science Center, one of America’s most visited museums and a destination for all ages with an interest in learning about science and technology.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
The World of Genomics will be showcased from October 18-20, 2018, at the St. Louis Science Center, one of America’s most visited museums and a destination for all ages with an interest in learning about science and technology.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
The Beckman Institute will once again be a host site for McKinley Health Center’s annual Flu Clinic, offering free flu shots for benefit eligible students and state employees.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Molecular neuroscience, fragile X syndrome
Friday, October 26, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Sensory feedback from the body influences the activity of brain circuits that organize motivated behavior and affective state. We use rodent models to study central neural pathways through which gastrointestinal signals shape stress responsiveness and aversively-motivated avoidance behaviors.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Dr. Xheng's lab has a long-standing interest in cell division. In recent years, their findings have broadened their research using animal models, to include the study of stem cells, genome organization, and lineage specification—how stem cells differentiate into their final cell forms.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Areas of Interest: Genetics of Birth Defects: neuroendocrine, auditory, and skeletal development. We use two main approaches in our birth defects research - sequencing patient DNA to identify novel disease genes and use of cell culture and animal models, especially the mouse, to understand the mechanism and pathophysiology of disease.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Monday, November 5, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Professor Dan Morrow presents “Title."
Ceremony at 4:30 pm, followed by reception.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Monday, November 12, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Recombinant viruses such as adeno-associated viruses have become major tools in the development of gene therapy for correcting genetic disorders. This seminar will highlight such work on the neurodevelopmental disorder, Fragile X Syndrome.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Research in the Wendt lab focuses on the molecular mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis. Research in his lab uses a combination of genetics, cell biology and in vivo imaging to identify and target key signaling processes involved in breast cancer metastasis.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
It is becoming increasing apparent that the abuse of alcohol during adolescence has long lasting effects of brain and behavior in adulthood. Our studies in a rodent model of intermittent adolescent alcohol exposure to investigate have revealed these changes include alterations in the prefrontal cortex.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Molecular & Integrative Physiology Seminar: Kevin Hascup, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, "TBA"
The primary emphasis of our laboratory is to understand the alterations among insulin signaling, bioenergetics, glutamatergic neurotransmission, and cognition that occur during disease progression versus successful aging.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Investiture ceremony at 4:30 p.m., followed by reception.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Learning a language is generally considered the crown jewel of human abilities. Yet the core question of ‘What is it about the human mammalian brain that allows us to learn our language?’, remains unresolved. In humans, language acquisition is mediated by a process called ‘vocal learning’. While humans are expert vocal learners, a remarkably sparse subset of mammals share
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Professor Mariana Kersh presents “Title."
Friday, February 15, 2019
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Professor Martha Gillette presents “Title."
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Professor Narayan Aluru presents “Title."