Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

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
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 1
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Callan Luetkemeyer
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Thursday, January 30, 2025

- 4:00 pm
Can polymeric flows be the Drosophila of continuum mechanics?
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

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

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Direct Digital Manufacturing of Multi-material Structures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 2
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Chi Hwan Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, New York University, "Beating the viscosity-conductivity inverse relation barrier to create a breakthrough electrolyte for emerging battery applications: Quantum mechanics holds the key"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Watson Lecture "The renaissance of general relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 9:30 am
- Virtual meeting details will be provided upon request.
Final Defense, Mr. Timothy James Tan, "Engineering the fusion machinery core of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for vaccine immunogen design"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "Medullary Circuits in Satiety and Aversion: Implications for Anti-Obesity Drug Development"
- 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
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanical computing in adaptive materials: From neuromorphic intelligence to parallel information processing
- 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
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Hodges
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Joe (Huanyu) Qiao, University of Illinois, "Meiotic Silencing is Regulated by Asynapsis Levels and Gel-like Phase Separation"

Associate Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Dept. Bioengineering, Dept. Biophysics, IGB, CCIL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 14, 2025

- 11:15 am
- TBD
Analytical Seminar - Dr. Dingran Chang, Northwestern University, “Exploring Functional Nucleic Acids for Biosensor Development”
- 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
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Janet Conrad (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "TBA

Assistant Professor, College of Aces, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Frans Pretorius (Princeton), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational