Integrative Biology

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
"Underground connections: microbial interactions in US farming systems" with Dr. M. Soledad Benitez Ponce

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. John J. Wiens, University of Arizona, "The Origins and Future of Global Biodiversity"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, October 17, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Tandy Warnow, EEB Affiliate, “TIPP3: a new method for abundance profiling of microbiomes”

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- 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

Entomology Colloquium - Marc Milne, Professor, University of Indianapolis - "How do spider assemblages respond to disturbance and evolve over space and time?"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

"Agricultural Stress and Mental Health: Research and Resources to Protect Producers and Communities" with Dr. Josie Rudolphi

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Affiliation Seminar- Dr. Jonathan Henn, NRES, "Grassland restoration and management under environmental change"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Arthur Charles-Orszag, University of California - Davis -- "Cellular, molecular mechanisms and evolution of chromosome segregation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius"

4:00 pm

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

Friday, October 24, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Coffee Hour"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

SIB Distinction Application due date
Recurring

8:30
- Informational
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

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

SIB Distinction Application due date
Recurring

8:30
- Informational
Entomology Colloquium - Derek McFarland, Grad Student, PEEC, UIUC - "Tick-borne disease in a dynamic landscape: Does exposure risk change over time?"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

"Emerging threats to food security: Lessons learned from tar spot of corn and the critical importance of having a strong connection between research and Extension." with Dr. Darcy Telenko

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar (Virtual) - Dr. Denise Devotta, Moleaer, "Career Options Outside of Academia and the Federal Government for PEEC Students"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, October 31, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Al Roca, Animal Sciences, "Most Likely Elephants"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Entomology Colloquium - ESA Practice Talks

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
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
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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
"The African Orphan Crops Consortium, Building Capacity and Delivering Impact" with Dr. Allen Van Deynze

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Ya Min, Plant Biology (UIUC), "Patterning the meristem: development and evolution of the floral ground plan"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, November 7, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Gio Madrigal, EEB, "Fish Genomics"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Entomology Colloquium - NO SEMINAR - ESA Meeting - Portland, OR

All Day

N/A
- Seminar/Symposium
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
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

"Chemistry of agricultural trade " with Dr. Spencer Walse

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- 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
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Scott Hotaling, Utah State University, "Climate Change in High Mountains of the Western USA: Using Long-Term Data to Understand the Future"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- 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
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, November 14, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Nina Shearrill, EEB, "Defense"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
Plant Biology Colloquium - Wendy Yang, Professor, SIB, UIUC

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Plant Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Room 1103
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

ENT Faculty-Grad Student Discussion (for Entomology Dept. Faculty and Students only please) - NO speaker Colloquium

All Day

B102 CLSL
- Meeting
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
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

"AI-Powered Plant Phenomics: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges " with Dr. Kevin Wang

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- 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
PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Wei Qin, Dept. of Microbiology (MCB), "Adapting to a Changing World: Ecophysiological Insights into Nitrifying Microorganisms and their Impact on the Future Nitrogen Cycle""

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, November 21, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Gerald Wilson, Technology Entrepreneur Center, "Enterprise Works"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Fall break begins

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

Instruction resumes

All Day
- Other

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Entomology Colloquium - Debajit Saha, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

"Plant and bacterial technologies to enhance associative biological nitrogen fixation in non-leguminous crops. " with Dr. Jean-Michel Ane

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Raffaela Lesch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Urbanization, "Domestication, and the Neural Crest: A Shared Developmental Pathway?"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, December 5, 2025

EEB Colloquium: Zach Heiple, UCSD, "Evolution of Morphology in Deepsea Fishes"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Entomology Colloquium - Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day
- Other
"TBD. " with Dr. Eliana Monteverde

12:00 - 12:50 pm

W109 - Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Ramapo College of New Jersey, "Uniting Tinbergen’s four questions to understand avian brood parasitism"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

All Day
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

All Day
- Other

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 23, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Mentoring Sessions"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Julia Jehn, EEB, "Plant Defenses"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Why Do People Hunt Bats?"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, Julian Catchen, and Grads, EEB, "Graduate Recruiting"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Bell Lab members, EEB, "Stickleback Behavior"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Tour of Champions, Meaghan Clark, "Rattlesnake conservation"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Katie Karl and Amanda Martinez, "Conservation Genomics of Herps"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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

PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris

9:00 - 10:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - 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

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

Monday, March 23, 2026

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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

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

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

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail 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

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

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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

Friday, April 10, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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

PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

EEB Colloquium: Anne Aka, EEB, UV Coloration and Vision in Fish

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- 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

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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

Friday, May 1, 2026

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

9:00 am

2004, NHB
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Friday, May 8, 2026

Final Exams Begin

All Day
- Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Commencement

8:30 am

Memorial Stadium
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

All Day
- Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

All Day
- Other