Daehyuk's Seminars

Monday, November 10, 2025

Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

1:00 - 1:50 pm

157 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Deciphering antibody sequences

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
"Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Sudin Bhattacharya

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Zhengyi Bian "From Purification, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Carbon Dots to Synthesis Modeling and AI-assisted Spectral Data Extraction" Advisor: Stephan Link

3:30 pm

Everett Lab 3100
- Seminar/Symposium
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Developing a novel mouse model for studying chronic metabolic dysfunction and alcohol associated liver disease (MetALD)"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "“Elucidating the molecular basis of cardiac mitochondria and bioenergetic defects in myotonic dystrophy type I”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
- Seminar/Symposium
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor & Chair Steve McAleavey

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene.

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - “Exploring the antiviral functions and engineering potential of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

NO SEMINAR: UIUC Thanksgiving Break

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 1, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley “What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences”
- Seminar/Symposium
"Molecular Determinants of Prion Disease; A Guide to Therapeutic Development?" by James A. Mastrianni, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Program, Helen McLoraine Neuroscientist of the Brain Research Foundation, The University of Chicago

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Professor Ketul Popat

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Eneda Toska / John Hopkins University

12:00 pm

ZOOM
- Seminar/Symposium
Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

"Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization" Brock Grenci, PhD Candidate Department of Bioengineering
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - 'TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Faizan Rashid / Sokac Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao) "Scalable Approaches to Study and Engineer Immune Receptors"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium “Programmable optical clocks for quantum metrology”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Lunch with CNRG: AI

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

"AI" Dan Davidson Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 12, 2025

Final Defense - PhD - Gangwon Jeong

10:00 am

Everitt 1103
- Other

Monday, December 15, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal / Li Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 20, 2025

ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

10:00 - 11:00 am

Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Reception/Open House

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

BIOE Seminar Series: Ruixuan Gao

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Lukas Muechler, Penn State, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 30, 2026

CHBE 121 Poster Session

6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.

Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University

2:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 17, 2026

CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:30 11:00 am

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

11:00 1:00 p.m.

Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Reception/Open House