Daehyuk's Seminars

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Joel Roberts, Final Defense, UIUC, "Towards Stimuli Responsive Molecules for Cancer Drug Delivery and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 pm
  • Everitt 1103

  Final Defense - PhD - Shraddha Shirguppe

  • Other
• • 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
• • 1:00 pm
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"

  • 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
• • 3:00 pm
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

  • 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
• • 3:00 pm
  • 1027 Lincoln Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman 2269 and zoom

  Final Defense - PhD - Jaena Park

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• 

  • 9:30 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 am
  • 433 RAL

  Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics,  neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 10:00 am
  • 319 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 1:00 pm
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• 

  • 9:30 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  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
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  NSP Graduate Student Only _ Meeting & Workshop

  • 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"

  • 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
  • 219 Gregory Hall

  Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  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
• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it

  Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • **Beckman Institute 5602**

  "Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with the Core: An Introduction to the LSM 980

  "An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "How FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, Induces Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  The Science and Practice of Team Science: Panel and Reception

  Panel, 12:00-1:00pm ​180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Medical Sciences Bldg 274

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk

  Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Xin Yu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 105 Noyes Laboratory

  SCS Academic Advising and Career Services Open House

  • Reception/Open House
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "Mechanism of ATP-dependent phosphonate ester formation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Lunch with CNRG: Generative AI

  "Generative AI" Chris Panumpabi, CNRG Conference & Events Audio/Visual Specialist

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102

  2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"

  • Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder/S. Prasanth Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with the Core - Creating Art of Science

  "Creating Art of Science" Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Graeme Lindsey (Mehta Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Weber Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab)- "“High-throughput synthesis and specificity characterization of natively paired antibodies using oPool+ display”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Fellows Symposium

  Learn about IGB research, hear about current issues in the life sciences, and connect with others at the poster session at the 2025 Fellows Symposium.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "“Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial innate immunity”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana, IL

  Art of Science 15: AERENCHYMA - Opening Reception

  The IGB’s Art of Science program is a celebration of the common ground between science and art. Images from Illinois research were the starting point for these works, which were created by researchers working in partnership with IGB artist Julia Pollack. These pieces are the result of conversations between the scientists and the artist.

  • Exhibition

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 161 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Lunch with CNRG - Ask CNRG: General Q and A

  "Ask CNRG: General Q and A" CNRG Staff

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:00 am
  • Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Illini Union - room ABC

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, June 5, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• • 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

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• • 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

Monday, November 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium