Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Final Defense - PhD - Siva Nalla

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Everitt 1103

  • Other

  

• Computational development of novel therapeutics for precision oncology

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  "Computational development of novel therapeutics for precision oncology" Daniel P. Wickland, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Senior Associate Consultant in the Division of Computational Biology Mayo Clinic

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Decoding Diet Using Genomics

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Dr. Lawrence David, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Duke University "Decoding Diet Using Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Spontaneous Fission and Fusion of Block Copolymer Micelles"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Adapting to Cracks: Learning from the Dynamic Structure of Mineralized Tissues and Cells

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Yishuo Jiang/Sirk Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Department Chair & Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Professor Yingxiao Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ana Pombo / Johns Hopkins University

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Using the Axioscan and ImageJ to Examine How Dietary Fiber Influences Stress-Induced HPA Axis and Microglial Activation

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Using the Axioscan and ImageJ to Examine How Dietary Fiber Influences Stress-Induced HPA Axis and Microglial Activation” Jordan Rindels, Ph.D Student Gut-Microbiota Communication Lab, Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• FINAL DEFENSE: Lakshmy Priya Ajayakumar "Reporter Spins on Demand: Photoswitchable Organic Radicals for Quantum Sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers"

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Noyes Lab 164

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Ahmet Yildiz (University of California Berkeley) "Stepping dynamics of dynein characterized by MINFLUX"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers) "Influence of Block Length and Tacticity on Polyampholyte Conformation and Phase Behavior"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Andrew Haak, Mayo Clinic, "TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mechanics of bubble bursting in dilute oil-in-water emulsions

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "In situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hua Wang - "Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines for Treating Solid Tumors"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical Seminar, "Expanding fast scan cyclic voltammetry at carbon fiber microelectrodes to new molecular spaces", Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Energetic Materials Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  2005 Mechanical Engineering Building (JDP)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Engineering stomata for improved water use efficiency

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  "Engineering stomata for improved water use efficiency" Tracy Lawson, PhD Department of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Biology Co-leader, IGB Photosynthesis & Food Security Research Theme University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Brain-wide metabolomic imaging with cellular specificity," by Fan Lam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Full-time faculty at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Hao Wang, PhD

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Vision and plans for the Advanced Microscopy and Diagnostics Facility

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Vision and plans for the Advanced Microscopy and Diagnostics Facility” Subha Srinivasan Associate Director for Research & Operations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Eli Pollak, Weizmann Institute of Science, "After a Century – Progress in Semiclassics and Tunneling"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Brian Fields (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis: the Rise of the Elements in the Early Universe"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• MIP Seminar: Dr. Dave Zhao, University of Illinois "TBA"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Xin Zhou, Harvard University, "Rewiring Cell-surface Signaling with Engineered Biologics"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Edwin Antony (SLU School of Medicine) - "Visualizing allostery in large enzyme complexes"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Analytical Seminar, "Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Scanning Ion-Conductance Microscopy: From Nanoscale Spectroscopy to Plasmon-Assisted Intracellular Delivery"Professor Naihao Chiang, University of Houston

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Naihao Chiang, University of Houston, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• The Regulation of Human Skeletal Development and Musculoskeletal Disease Risk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Terence Capellini, PhD Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology; Harvard University “The Regulation of Human Skeletal Development and Musculoskeletal Disease Risk”

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Assessment and Remediation of Discourse Reading Difficulties from the Information-Processing Perspective," by Professor Shuo Lu, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Shenzhen University, China

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Room 104

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Neuroscience Program's Winter Holiday Party

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union's South Lounge

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Biological Physics Seminar: Ruobo Zhou (Penn State)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Lecture

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Doug Natelson (Rice University) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• Final Defense: Jorge Calderin (Fratti Lab) - "The Detection of Vacuolar Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PI(3,4,5)P3), and its Control on SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion Through Binding Vam7 and Impacting the Assembly of Critical Membrane Microdomains."

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 15, 2026

• Final Defense - PhD - Oliver Qu

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  Room 3526, Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building

  • Other

  

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

• Final Defense - PhD - Matthew Wester

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  HMNTL 1000

  • Other

  

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, February 11, 2027

• Biological Physics Seminar: Shixin Liu (Rockefeller University)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Lecture

  

Friday, February 12, 2027

• Professor Martin Edwards, University of Arkansas, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 17, 2027

• Prof. Renee Frontiera, University of Minnesota, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 19, 2027

• Professor Julia Laskin, Purdue University, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Julia Laskin, Purdue University, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

• Prof. Matthew Crane, Colorado School of Mines, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, March 12, 2027

• Professor Devleena Samanta, University of Texas Austin, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• Professor Devleena Samanta, University of Texas Austin, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, March 23, 2027

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and William Wightkin/Blanke Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, March 30, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Samantha Yruegas, Rice University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 31, 2027

• Prof. Teresa Head-Gordon, University of California Berkeley, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, "TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 2, 2027

• Professor Jeff Nivala, University of Washington, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• Professor Jeff Nivala, University of Washington, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, April 6, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Bryan Hunter, Northwestern University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Claire Murphy/Slauch Lab and J.D. Norcross/Dr. Steven Blanke

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 7, 2027

• Prof. Allison Squires, University of Chicago, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, April 13, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Brandon Barnett, University of Rochester

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Nathan Walker/Whitaker Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, April 20, 2027

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Katlyn Meier, University of Miami

  Time

  3:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 30, 2027

• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Jennifer Richer, University of Colorado Anschutz "TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2027 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Paul Alivisatos, University of Chicago, TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

• Prof. Haw Yang, Princeton University, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, May 6, 2027

• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Jeanne Stachowiak, University of Texas at Austin, "TBD"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, May 12, 2027

• Prof. Martin Zanni, University of Wisconsin Madison, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium