Integrative Biology

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

  Faculty deadline for reporting midterm grades for freshmen.

  • Informational
• • 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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • All Day

  POT A (1st 8 week) grade entry enabled for Instructors in Faculty Self-Service

  • Informational
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Boxuan Zhao, UIUC (MCB). "A Multiomic Toolbox for Brain Mapping: Technologies with Applications Across Biological Systems"

  • 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
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Dr. Jacob Goheen, Iowa State University, A game of thorns: how plant defense shapes predator-prey interactions in African savannas

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to drop POT 1 course via Student Self-Service

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to drop POT 1 (full semester) course via Student Self-Service without grade of W

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis in POT 1 (full semester) course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to file intent to use Campus Grade Replacement option in a POT 1 course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to remove incomplete grade from previous semester to prevent change to F grade

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to withdraw from Spring 2025 semester(drop all courses) without grade of W

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Final exam schedule posted to Office of Registrar website and Course Explorer

  • Informational
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  Coffee Hour

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other
• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Sunday, March 16, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Monday, March 17, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Thursday, March 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Friday, March 21, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Saturday, March 22, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Sunday, March 23, 2025

• • All Day

  Spring Break

  • Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other
• • All Day

  POT B courses begin (non-standard courses may begin earlier or later)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Priority registration Time Tickets (earliest registration times) for Summer and Fall 2025 available on Student Self-Service

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Jon Tetlie, Grad Student Exit Seminar - "Trap or treasure: Understanding the community-level impacts of agricultural practices and land-use on prairie restoration ecosystems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 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   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 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
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago. "The mode and tempo of plant adaptation to contemporary agriculture”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Grace Tan, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Phenomics of epidermal patterning and water use efficiency in Setaria and Sorghum

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • All Day

  2:00 PM Faculty deadline for reporting POT A (1st 8 week) grades

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for ALL students to drop POT B (2nd 8 week) course for refund if tuition range changes or billing hours decrease.

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to add POT B course via Student Self-Service

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to add POT B (2nd 8 week) course

  • Informational

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Elliott Zieman, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University - "Implications of altered ecosystems for vector-borne pathogens"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• 

  • 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   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 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
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Sarah Lipps , UIUC (Crop Sciences) "Resistance to Gibberella Ear Rot in Maize: Potential mechanisms and breeding strategies"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Sean Ooi, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Characterization of soil moisture legacy control of nitrous oxide production vs. reduction dynamics in terrestrial soils

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline to withdraw from the university and receive the minimum 40% pro-rata refund if enrolled mainly in full semester classes

  • Informational
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Dr. Alex Weiss, Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo - Topic: Non-Academic Career

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103

  Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Don Ort

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Priority registration for Summer and Fall 2025 begins

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  Entomology Graduate Student Appreciate Week

  • Seminar/Symposium

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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yaowu Yuan, UConn. "How and why do plants evolve so many beautiful forms of flowers in nature?"

  • 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

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Dr. Yuki Haba, Columbia University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montréal, QC - "Spiders on the web: silk-based communication, flexible foraging strategies, and the transmission of online (mis)information"

  • 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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Moeller, UMN.

  • 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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to drop POT 1 course without grade of W

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to drop POT B course via Student Self-Service

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis in POT 1 course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to drop POT B (2nd 8 week) course via Student Self-Service without grade of W

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis in POT B course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for UG to file intent to use Campus Grade Replacement option in POT B course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day for GRAD students to withdraw from Spring 2025 semester without grade of W when enrolled mainly in full semester classes

  • Informational
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Fuller Lab Talks - Topic: Summer Research

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Cassandra Extavour, Professor, Harvard University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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

  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
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Tie Liu, UF. “Aging, senescence, and stress in plants: what we have learned from Arabidopsis to horticultural crops”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Kevin Neumann, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, The individual and collective behavior of social organisms across environments

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Open registration begins for Summer and Fall 2025

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Entomology Colloquium - Hojun Song, Professor, Texas A&M University - "Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae) as a model clade for understanding the evolution of phenotypic plasticity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

  Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yiping Qi, UMD. "Developing Genome Engineering Tools to Advance Crop Improvement"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Derek McFarland, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Tick-Borne Disease in a Dynamic Landscape: Does Exposure Risk Change Over Time?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline to update Study Abroad and Thesis 599 registration.

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to drop POT B course without grade of W

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deadline for GRAD to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis for POT B course

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Deferred (DFR) grades for Study Abroad and Thesis 599 sections are rolled to Academic History

  • Informational
• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 2004 Natural History Building

  EEB Colloquium - Cáceres Lab Talks

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103

  Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Ya Min (Minya)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • All Day

  Last day of instruction

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  PEEC Seminars- Sana Saboowala, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Reflections on interdisciplinary study at the graduate level: exploring the embodiment of historical trauma and migration on South Asian immigrants to the United States

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day for GRAD to add/drop POT 1 course without petitioning Graduate College

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day for GRAD to add/drop POT B course without petitioning Graduate College

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other
• • All Day

  Reading day (no classes, no final examinations)

  • Informational

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Saturday, May 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational

Sunday, May 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational

Thursday, May 15, 2025

• • All Day

  Final examination period (weekdays only)

  • Informational

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Degree conferral and campus-wide commencement

  • Informational

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Friday, May 23, 2025

• • 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

  Faculty deadline for reporting grades

  • Informational

Friday, May 30, 2025

• • All Day

  College deadline for reporting Academic Standing

  • Informational

Monday, June 2, 2025

• • All Day

  Transcripts on hold for Spring 2025 grades will be released.

  • Informational

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Monday, June 23, 2025

• • All Day

  College deadline for reporting Dean’s List

  • Informational

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Transcripts on hold for Spring 2025 degrees are released.

  • Informational

Monday, August 25, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Fall break begins

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other