Integrative Biology

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 - "Development and application of novel insect olfaction-based “Cyborg” gas sensors for disease detection"

11:00 am

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley “What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences”
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

"Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization" Brock Grenci, PhD Candidate Department of Bioengineering
- Seminar/Symposium
"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
Lunch with CNRG: AI

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center

"AI" Dan Davidson Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Matthew Cabeen, Oklahoma State University -- "Careful control for costly competition: a “two-key” mechanism for pyocin regulation in P. aeruginosa"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Andrea Graham, Princeton University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. John Schroggins, University of Texas Southwestern -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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, "Evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms as a driver for cell type expansions in animals"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Vanderbilt University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Bernhardt, Harvard University - "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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, "Interdisciplinarity and Museum Collections in the Study of Cockroach Evolution"

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

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "TBA"

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

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

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Chen Chen, Louisiana State University -- "TBA"

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

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

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- 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

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "TBA"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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