DH @ Illinois

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• "Neural mechanisms of group living," by Aubrey M. Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program, Emory University

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• CU Bike to Work Day

  Time

  7:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  Research Park (First Street & St. Mary's Road)

  Champaign County Bike to Work Day 2026 is happening on Wednesday, September 16th from 7-10 a.m. Registration is forthcoming.

  • Health/Fitness

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Fire at Five Happy Hour and Bonfire - Hispanic Heritage Month

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak St

  Join us on Thursday, September 17 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - September

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• "Mechanisms of monogamy: Neural and genomic foundations of social memory and attachment in prairie voles," Kimberly Long, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Nathan Hensley | No Escape, No Ending: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• "Human 2D neurons and 3D brain organoid models for understanding brain development and neurological disorders," by Guo-li Ming Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Navigating Google's Latest Updates for Business Growth

  Time

  1:30 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820

  Join us on Wednesday, September 30 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. for a workshop on Navigating Google's Latest Updates for Business Growth with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Stephanie O'Rourke | Landscapes of Dis-placement: Mining and Mapping the 19th-century British Empire

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Justin Jackson | Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• First Friday Breakfast - October

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. on the first Friday of every month. 

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• "Host-microbe interactions mediating adverse effects of maternal environmental exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental health," Shelly A. Buffington, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Research Park Flu Shot Clinic

  Time

  2:30 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Join us on Wednesday, October 7 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks for the annual Flu Shot Clinic.

  • Health/Fitness

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefan Vogler

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Data + AI User Group - October

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, October 9 from noon to 1 p.m. for their monthly meetup.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Brent Roberts | Studying Lives and Living a Life: Personality Development Across the Life Course

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• "Small-Molecule Antagonists of Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Auxiliary Subunits," by Samy Meroueh, Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - October

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• "From Molecular Pathogenesis to 4 phenylbutyrate rescue in Genetic Epilepsies associated with Impaired GABA receptor and transporter,," by Professor Jingqiong Kang, Department of Neurology & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast

  Time

  8:00 - 9:30 am

  Location

  Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

  Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation host a Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast for community leaders and local professionals in the agricultural technology sector. The event is by invite-only and held 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Illinois Conference Center.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• "Physiology under pressure: Sensory circuits of body-brain physiology," by Michael Schappe, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Affiliate Faculty, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Fire at Five: Happy Hour and Bonfire - Spooky Pet Paw-Palooza

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak St

  Fire At Five Happy Hour has returned! Join us on Thursday, October 29 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio & Lawn.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• SfN Preview Poster Night

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute Atrium

  • Exhibition

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• First Friday Breakfast - November

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. on the first Friday of every month. 

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• "Illuminating neurochemical signaling with non-genetically encoded sensors," by Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Data + AI User Group - November

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 13 from noon to 1 p.m for their monthly meetup.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - November

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• "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

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast

  Time

  8:00 - 9:30 am

  Location

  Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

  Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation host a Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast for community leaders and local professionals in the agricultural technology sector. The event is by invite-only and held 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Illinois Conference Center.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetric

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• First Friday Breakfast - December

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. on the first Friday of every month. 

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Neuroscience Program's Winter Holiday Party

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union's South Lounge

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Data + AI User Group - December

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, December 11 from noon to 1 p.m. for their monthly meetup.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Friday, December 18, 2026

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - December

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

  • Conference/Workshop