Microbiology@Illinois

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture "Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship" Abhishek Pandey, PhD Interim CEO/CTO of ASERTI Pharma

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Faculty Spotlight Lecture "Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience" Brett Loman, PhD Department of Animal Science; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Thursday, September 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Faculty Spotlight Lecture "Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience" Brett Loman, PhD Department of Animal Science; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Thursday, September 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

• Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Director's Office "Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation" Huimin Zhao, PhD Steven L. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Thursday, September 10, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Houra Merrikh, Vanderbilt University -- "Regulation of replication restart after conflicts with transcription"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nidia Sequeira Trovao, Pathobiology/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Gray, University of Alabama -- "How oral streptococci respond to the antimicrobial oxidants found in saliva"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karine Gibbs, University of California - Berkeley -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Shady Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi -- "Steroid hormones produced by coral-associated bacteria modulate the coral immune response during thermal stress"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Zoi Rapti, Mathematics/University of Illinois Urbana-Illinois -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Virginia Armbrust, University of Washington -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium