Urbana Campus Research Calendar
Friday, August 23, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Join us for Agronomy Day on Thursday, 8/26 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the South First Street Facility.
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Catherine Klapperich, PhD Boston University; Associate Dean for Research and Technology Development
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Friday, August 30, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Blue and White explores the technological advances, trade networks, and shared aesthetics that sustain a global appetite for blue-and-white ceramics.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Uwe Rudolph, PhD University of Illinois; Department of Comparative Biosciences "GABAA Receptor Subtypes: A new perspective on functional selectivity of inhibition in the brain"
NHGRI presents a public forum "Artificial Intelligence, Health, & Society" Rashida Richardson Director of Policy Research AI Now Institute Kristian J. Hammond Professor of Computer Science McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Join us for 5 sections of our workshop hosted to help support you in your research: Introduction to Scholarly Research! Each section will have two sessions, and we will meet on campus. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
"High plant density tolerance in maize"
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
The MBM Program's fall Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series begins Sept. 4 with Justin Rhodes, an associate professor of psychology. Rhodes will speak at 4 p.m. in Room 2269 Beckman on “Completely implantable, injectable, wireless microLEDs for optogenetic manipulations of exercise-brain interactions.”
Thursday, September 5, 2019
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
Friday, September 6, 2019
Monday, September 9, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Siobhan Brady, PhD University of California, Davis; Department of Plant Biology "Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism"
This session will give an overview of the structure of the NIH and the various funding mechanisms. Participants will learn to effectively communicate with Program Officers, and get tips for planning a successful proposal. A panel of faculty members will lead the session.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 8th.
"Conserved transcriptional responses for leaf blight in sorghum and maize"
Thursday, September 12, 2019
The School of Labor and Employment Relations is pleased to announce the Investiture of Michael H. LeRoy as the LER Alumni Professor. This ceremony will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 12, 2019 in the Wagner Education Center at LER.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Sarah E. O’Connor, PhD Director, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena, Germany "Chemistry and Biology of Plant Natural Products"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
James Eberwine, PhD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Co-Director Penn Program in Single Cell Biology "Integrating Single Cell Subcellular Biology in the Quest for Emergent Biologies"
This session will cover the review and scoring criteria for NIH proposals and the intricacies of the NIH peer review process. Participants will learn how to tailor their proposal to fit the NIH criteria.
Network science describes principles by which large numbers of pairwise relationships between brain regions can be illuminated. Examples will be given of descriptions of collections of brain regions into subnetworks or communities, individual differences in community structure, how community structure relates to disease, and how it might be changed through experience.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Join us for 5 sections of our workshop hosted to help support you in your research: Introduction to Scholarly Research! Each section will have two sessions, and we will meet on campus. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
"Forest genetics and forest species conversation"
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Mark Your Calendars for the Fall University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium!
Friday, September 20, 2019
Join us in shaping the future of K-12 Computer Science Education for all Illinois students.
Monday, September 23, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Nathalie Pochet, PhD Broad Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Participants will learn how to develop the Specific Aims section of their proposal.
While there is general agreement about which patches of cortex are involved in reading words, there is extensive debate about the type of cognitive comptutation carried out in those patches.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
"Balancing of productivity and sustainability goals in production agriculture research"
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Join the nation's foremost experts in human nutrition, obesity research, and child and family health at the Food and Family Conference 2019. Hosted by the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with the Christopher Family Foundation. Registration and more information coming soon!
Friday, September 27, 2019
The O’Leary Learning Center honors the family's lifelong commitment to education and learning with the establishment of a sophisticated 4,400 square foot laboratory space. It is designed to advance research and teaching in the college for enhanced collaboration of interdisciplinary research projects,an improved online learning space, and enriched STEM instruction.
Monday, September 30, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
This session will provide an overview of other components of a standard research grant including: developing the research strategy, background/significance, methods, biosketches, narrative, and the cover letter.
"Even a Moon Shot Needs a Flight Plan: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration" Dr. Alondra Nelson President, Social Science Research Council Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
There are significant concerns about the reproducibility of scientific results across many fields including neuroimaging. This talk will discuss the source of these problems and outline a set of approaches to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Join us for 5 sections of our workshop hosted to help support you in your research: Introduction to Scholarly Research! Each section will have two sessions, and we will meet on campus. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 29th.
"Genomic and molecular characterization of Xanthomonas curcurbitae, the causal agent of bacterial spot disease of cucurbits"
Thursday, October 3, 2019
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
Monday, October 7, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
This session will cover any remaining sections such as compliance, key personnel, subawards, incorporating collaborators and subcontracts, building the budget and budget justification, cost sharing, data dissemination, data sharing, letters of support, and research resources.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
"Improving photosynthetic efficiency for increase yield"
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Your grant went through peer review, but didn’t get funded. Now what? This session will address how to respond to the reviewers’ comments, interpret critiques, and use feedback from reviewers or mentors to improve your grant proposal.
The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Join us for 5 sections of our workshop hosted to help support you in your research: Introduction to Scholarly Research! Each section will have two sessions, and we will meet on campus. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
"The physiology, mapping, and prediction of stable carbon isotopes: a proxy trait for water-use efficiency in maize"
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time and location TBD
Friday, October 18, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by October 20th.
"Spectral characterization of plant stress responses"
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
There has been a surge in technologies to observe how genes and proteins change in the brain during disease. I will describe a new method, DART (drugs acutely restricted by tethering), to rapidly restrict drugs to genetically defined neurons in behaving mice. The approach offers a new way to establish causal circuit and molecular substrates of normal and aberrant behavior.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Join us for 5 sections of our workshop hosted to help support you in your research: Introduction to Scholarly Research! Each section will have two sessions, and we will meet on campus. Register for more information here: https://go.library.illinois.edu/research.
Microbial strains have been successfully engineered to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds, several of which have been commercialized. As new products are targeted for biological synthesis, yield is frequently considered a primary driver towards determining feasibility. Theoretical yields can be calculated, establishing an upper limit on the potential conversion
"Unraveling the hexaploid sweet potato inheritance using ultra-dense multilocus mapping"
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
Do tiny CubeSat satellites measure up to much larger satellites?
Monday, November 4, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
In this talk I will describe ongoing work focused on how the experiences of both mothers and fathers can induce epigenetic, neurobiological and behavioral effects and the interactive and multigenerational consequences of these effects.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
"Fine mapping and mutagenesis of the NRT1.1 gene family in maize"
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Non-Traditional Publishing and Digitization in Slavic and East European Countries is a workshop focused on Slavic and East European resources, specifically primary sources created by underground, alternative, and counter-culture social groups.
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
Friday, November 8, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
This talk will focus on the role of the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), the first itch-specific receptor identified in the spinal cord, in itch transmission. He will also discuss about the differences between itch and pain sensations.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by November 10th.
"Revolutionizing global wheat and rice breeding: Insights, realities, and untold stories"
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Monday, November 18, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
"Genomics-assisted breeding of tetraploid potato"
Monday, December 2, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Spontaneous physical activity (SPA) behavior, or the drive to move, is initiated by brain centers and could therefore be therapeutically targeted. A major goal of our work is to understand the brain circuitry driving SPA, so that obesity therapies based on SPA can be considered.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by December 1st.
"Impact of genotype calling methodologies on genome wide association and genomic prediction in polyploids"
Thursday, December 5, 2019
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
Monday, December 9, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
While many animals use the earth's magnetic field to navigate their environment, much remains unknown about its molecular and cellular basis. We will present insights into the behavioral, cellular, and molecular basis for magnetoreception yielded by the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
"Understanding perenniality in perennial wheat"
Thursday, January 2, 2020
FREE coffee and treats. You're invited to bring a friend, stop by and take a break!
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Biologics, products produced from living organisms, have revolutionized treatment of disease. Examples of FDA-approved biologics include therapeutic proteins (e.g. blood clotting factors and antibodies), engineered viruses for gene therapy, and cell therapies. Biologics are addressing previous unmet medical needs, but are challenging to manufacture and therefore high in co
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Stepping towards this goal of incorporating biochemical data into ASD diagnosis, we analyzed measurements of metabolite concentrations of the folate-dependent one-carbon metabolism and transulfuration pathways taken from blood samples of 83 participants with ASD and 76 age-matched neurotypical peers. Fisher Discriminant Analysis enabled multivariate classification of the p
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Thursday, April 30, 2020
The signature event of Undergraduate Research Week, the Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) has been held on the University of Illinois (U of I) campus since 2008.