Daehyuk's Seminars

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Expanding the Functional Proteome

Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Room, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Pioneers Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Microglia regulating brain functions in development and degeneration," by Dr. Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Pinaki Sarder, Ph.D
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities

"Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities" Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director for Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 116 RAL
Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
No Seminar March 18, 2025 - UIUC SPRING BREAK (March 15-23, 2025)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 20, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Harshika Varadhan, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE Special Seminar - Dr. Stephanie Willerth Ph.D, P.Eng, FCSSE, FBSE
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

Sabrina C. Agarwal, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

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
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Characterization of Antibodies Against Influenza H3N2 Hemagglutinin Stem."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "The cartilaginous fish Immunoglobulin M provides insights into polymeric antibody assembly and evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- Beckman 4269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Hannah Kimmel
- Other
- 3:30 pm
- I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center
Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics

"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX

"Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

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

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Rudolph Jaenisch
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
Lecture by Chulhong Kim, Ph.D.
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology

Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Engineering viruses for efficient and targeted gene delivery to the brain," by Min Jee Jang, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Faculty Affiliate, Neuroscience Program & Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets

"The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Structural Investigation of Telost of Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "Title TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Wei-Chun Kao/M. Boppart Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface

Wade Zeno, PhD Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California "Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "TBA:
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 1005 Beckman Institute
Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic

This workshop sponsored by Beckman Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and Cancer Center at Illinois will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty and become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois.
- Conference/Workshop