Integrative Biology

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Kevin Johnson, Principal Ornithologist, INHS, UIUC - "Phylogenomics and cophylogenomics of lice at multiple scales"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

[VIRTUAL] PEEC Seminar (AM Session) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris, "Interdisciplinarity and Museum Collections in the Study of Cockroach Evolution"

9:00 - 10:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Rachel Hestrin, Mycorrhizal symbiosis alters rhizosphere bacterial carbon acquisition and resilience to drought, University of Massachusetts

12:00

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
[IN-PERSON] PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "Yes! Bacteria have organelles! How are they organized?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 13, 2026

EEB Colloquium: EEB, "Coffee Hour"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Spring Vacation Begins

1:00 pm
- Other

Sunday, March 22, 2026

Science on Tap

1:00 pm

Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, March 23, 2026

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Laramy Enders, Associate Professor, Purdue University - "Leveraging microbial partners to improve crop health and pest protection"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Lunch with the Core

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Jenn Brophy, Standford, Programmable Memory as a Tool for Plant Genome Engineering

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Chen Chen, Louisiana State University -- "Staphylococcal Superantigen-like Protein 11, a Foe or a Friend?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Ed Newcomer, "Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Nonacademic career, Conservation Stings"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Peter Marting, Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University - "Superorganism physiology: How behavior, architecture, and environments regulate insect societies"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Investiture of Dr. Tigga Kingston as Chair of the Shelford-Pitelka-Batzli Professorship in Mammalian Ecology

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Illini Union South Lounge
- Ceremony/Service
Microbiology Student Seminar: Abbi Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Steve Whitham, Atmospheric CO₂ as an Immunomodulator in Soybean and Maize Pathosystems, ISU

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
Tuning surface interactions of two-dimensional materials in dry and wet environments

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

“Tuning surface interactions of two-dimensional materials in dry and wet environments” Gus Greenwood, PhD Candidate Prof. Rosa Espinosa-Marzal’s Environmental Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
- Ceremony/Service
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Agustin Fuentes, Princeton University, "Sex is bodies, behaviors & lives: the biological limits of the binary and the benefits of a spectrum approach"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "Single-cell Studies of Phage Penetration and Implications for Antimicrobial Strategies"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Laura Ingwell, Associate Professor, Purdue University

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Creating Art of Science

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

“Creating Art of Science” Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Elena Lopez Peredo, From ponds to deserts: The many faces of green microalgae diversity, Rochester Institute of Technology

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "Understanding hantavirus pathogenesis through innate immune activation"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Rex Cocroft, Professor, University of Missouri

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Camila Pizano, Janzen-Connell effects in tropical dry forests; the interactive effects of drought and soil microbial communities on seedling growth

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adam Deutschbauer, University of California - Berkeley -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Science on Tap

1:00 pm

Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting. Our speaker will be Quang Nguyen, a neuroscientist who leads interdisciplinary projects using biochemical and physiological approaches.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

No Entomology Colloquium - ESA North Central Branch Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa

All Day
- Other
Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time; Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago "Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time" "Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices"
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mauricio Pontes, Penn State University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Elizabeth Bello, Grad Student Exit Seminar, Entomology, UIUC

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Eavesdropping on Biology by Using New Instrumentation and AI to Foster Multiscale Imaging

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Scott Fraser, PhD President, Dynamic Imaging, Head of Biohub, San Francisco "Eavesdropping on Biology by Using New Instrumentation and AI to Foster Multiscale Imaging"
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Fiber Rearrangement Redistributes Energy and Modulates Intrinsic Cutting Energy in Bovine Glisson's Capsule

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

“Fiber Rearrangement Redistributes Energy and Modulates Intrinsic Cutting Energy in Bovine Glisson's Capsule” Shaobo Zhan, PhD Candidate Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Ronan O'Malley, The Gene Regulatory Landscape of Flowering Plants , University of Chicago

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Turner Hall Room W109
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Amy Toth, Iowa State University, "Remote Control of Complex Social Behavior from Outside of the Brain: Lessons from Functional Genomics in Wasps"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Courtney Ellison, University of Georgia -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, EEB, "ASN Presidential Address Practice Talk"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
Art of Science 16

4:00 pm

Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana, IL

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. The show will run through the mon
- Exhibition

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Entomology Colloquium - Josephine Rodriguez, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Virginia at Wise

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
2025-2026 Entomology Alumni / Department Potluck Picnic

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Crystal Lake Park Lake House, 206 West Park Street, Urbana, IL

Please bring a dish to share, and label ingredients for food allergens. Family members and significant others are welcome. Our alumna speaker, Dr. Josephine Rodriguez, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Virginia at Wise, will join us.
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Instruction Ends

All Day
- Other
PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other
IGB 2026 Fellows Symposium

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Learn about IGB research, hear about current issues in the life sciences, and connect with others at our popular poster session at the 2026 Fellows Symposium.
- Seminar/Symposium