Daehyuk's Seminars

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
- Seminar/Symposium
BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Boxuan Zhao

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Yuwei Pan (Zhao Lab) - “Development of a new refactoring strategy for large complex natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.”

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

BIOE Bags & Hot Dogs for CCFD on the Quad
Recurring

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Engineering Quad
- Social/Informal Event
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”

2:00 pm

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

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Genome Day

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801

Join us for a fun day of hands-on science! Talk with scientists and explore exhibits and activities including learning how organisms relate to each other on the Tree of Life, extracting strawberry DNA to make necklaces, and understanding how genomics pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Although designed for K-12 children, all members of the community are welcome.
- Festival/Celebration

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology; Weill Cornell Medicine "Targeting lipid metabolism to restore immune reactivity of irradiated glioblastoma"
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
"Network Neuroscience: Linking Structure and Function," by Olaf Sporns, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium
M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

7:00 pm
- Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Professor Stephen Maren

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Yang Yang, UW Madison, "Bridging Quantum and Classical: An Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Related Chemistry"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

4:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

5:00 - 6:00 pm

163 Noyes Lab
- Informational

Friday, October 24, 2025

BIOE Bags & Hot Dogs for CCFD on the Quad
Recurring

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Engineering Quad
- Social/Informal Event
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan" Ya Min, Assistant Professor Plant Biology, Physics
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
NSP DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR: "Breath, space and memory: How nasal respiration shaped the evolution of hippocampal function." by Lucia F. Jacobs, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Professor Amy Wagoner Johnson

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- 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
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

BIOE Bags & Hot Dogs for CCFD on the Quad
Recurring

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Engineering Quad
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, November 3, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

BIOE Seminar Series: Richard & Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering Xinchang Yao

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

2:00 pm

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

Saturday, November 8, 2025

East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Illini Union
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

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)

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
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Neil Cornish (Montana State University) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

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)

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
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

BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor 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) - "TBA"

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

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

"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 Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- 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)

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 Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

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