Advith's Calendar

Showing events filtered by Event type: Seminar/Symposium.

Monday, June 29, 2026

Final Exam: Yicong Dong

9:00 - 11:00 am

Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab 3005
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Subhrangsu Saha

11:00 am

Newmark 2311
- Seminar/Symposium
Zhenxiang Zhao, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Activity-Based Triggers for Imaging and Targeted Molecular Delivery"

1:00 pm

Roger Adams Labortatory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, Room 117
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Yi-Chia Chang

1:00 pm

CEEB 2012 (Conference Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Final Exam: Leah Espenhahn

9:00 - 11:00 am

HMNTL 1000
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Shirin Qiam

9:00 am

Newmark 1311
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Xinan Chen

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Coordinated Science Laboratory 301
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

PhD Final Defense – Weiheng Zhong

10:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Yuqi Li

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

ZOOM
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Noah Bender "Chiral Separation and Measurement of D- and L-Amino Acids in Mammals." Advisor: Professor Jonathan Sweedler

2:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Final Defense of Ye, Joshua, "How Rhodotorula toruloides uses difficult substrates to yield biofuels"

11:00 am

612 IGB (Institute for Genomic Biology)
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Conrad Milton "Probing Acetylcholine Dynamics from Single Living Cells with Nano-Liquid/Liquid Interface Electrodes". Advisor: Professor Mei Shen

2:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 29, 2026

Final Exam: Yicong Dong

9:00 - 11:00 am

Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab 3005
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Subhrangsu Saha

11:00 am

Newmark 2311
- Seminar/Symposium
Zhenxiang Zhao, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Activity-Based Triggers for Imaging and Targeted Molecular Delivery"

1:00 pm

Roger Adams Labortatory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, Room 117
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Yi-Chia Chang

1:00 pm

CEEB 2012 (Conference Room)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Final Exam: Leah Espenhahn

9:00 - 11:00 am

HMNTL 1000
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Shirin Qiam

9:00 am

Newmark 1311
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Xinan Chen

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Coordinated Science Laboratory 301
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

PhD Final Defense – Weiheng Zhong

10:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Yuqi Li

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

ZOOM
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Noah Bender "Chiral Separation and Measurement of D- and L-Amino Acids in Mammals." Advisor: Professor Jonathan Sweedler

2:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Final Defense of Ye, Joshua, "How Rhodotorula toruloides uses difficult substrates to yield biofuels"

11:00 am

612 IGB (Institute for Genomic Biology)
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Conrad Milton "Probing Acetylcholine Dynamics from Single Living Cells with Nano-Liquid/Liquid Interface Electrodes". Advisor: Professor Mei Shen

2:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, July 6, 2026

PhD Final Defense – Xiaokai Yang

9:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Mick Gardner

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Beckman 4269, 4th floor tower room
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Sebastian Pozo Ocampo

2:00 pm

CEEB 2015
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Ebin Joseph, "Expanding fatty alcohol production in Yarrowia lipolytica"

3:00 pm

612 IGB (Institute for Genomic Biology)
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Exam: Chihun Song

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Coordinated Science Laboratory 301
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Prelim Exam: Masa Sakakura

9:00 - 11:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Final Exam: Samhita Marri

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

CSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 9, 2026

PhD Final Defense – Travis A. Shoemaker

9:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 10, 2026

PhD Final Defense – Dylan Centella Raef

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Prelim Exam: Yuanbo Zhang

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Beckman Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Final Defense of Wesley Harrison, "Development of New-to-Nature Enzyme Chemistries with Photobiocatalysis"

3:00 pm

1092 Lincoln hall
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Samantha Barlock, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 17, 2026

Prelim Exam: Ziyang Xu

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Beckman 2169 or Zoom
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Prelim Exam: Dimitrios Gotsis

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Beckman 4369
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Raj Kishor Joshi (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) "Interior magnetic field dynamics in Magnetars"

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

I-MRSEC REU Final Symposium

9:00 am

MRL 280

I-MRSEC REU students' final symposium.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

I-MRSEC REU Final Symposium

9:00 am

MRL 280

I-MRSEC REU students' final symposium.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, August 10, 2026

Prelim Exam: Xiaodong Ye

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

MNTL 2003
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Final Exam: Weiman Yan

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Coordinated Science Laboratory 419
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

NSP Faculty Mixer

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dynamic Expression of a Splicing Factor Promotes Cell Migration and Proliferation Following Drug-Induced, Acute Liver Injury".

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

NSP Faculty Mixer

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dynamic Expression of a Splicing Factor Promotes Cell Migration and Proliferation Following Drug-Induced, Acute Liver Injury".

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

"Topological Brain Maps and the Shape of Thought," by Marty Sereno, Emeritus Professor Psychology, San Diego State University Adjunct Professor Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 10, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Prof. Hyun Joon Kong) "Physical Intelligence at the Interface of Biology and Engineering"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 11, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "Phospho-BRD4 IDR-Targeting Compounds as Antiviral and Anticancer Agents"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 14, 2026

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Title TBA"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Title TBA"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Aubrey Kelly, Emory University

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Prof. Dayne Swearer, Northwestern University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 17, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 18, 2026

Sandage Symposium: Advancing Advertising Together

9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Illini Union

The Sandage Symposium brings together industry experts, researchers, and students who are shaping the future of advertising.
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 21, 2026

R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Kimberly Long, Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Prof. Hsing-Ta Chen, University of Notre Dame, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 24, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University (Host: Prof. Hong Yang)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 25, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 28, 2026

Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Guo-li Ming, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 1, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
TBA

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1002 Grainger Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 28, 2026

Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Guo-li Ming, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 1, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
TBA

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1002 Grainger Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Shelly Buffington, Baylor College of Medicine

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 8, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University (Host: Prof. Theresa Schoetz)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
TBA

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1002 Grainger Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 9, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Balthazor-Senter Symposium of Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Speakers: Prof. Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Betsy Parkinson (Purdue University), Prof. Kevin Brown (Indiana University), Prof. Quentin Michaudel (Texas A&M), Prof. Tianning Diao (New York University).

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

Beckman Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Samy Meroueh, Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Prof. Yelena Simine, McGill University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 16, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Sam Sternberg (Columbia University) - "RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Jingqiong Kang, Vanderbilt University

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Prof. Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 22, 2026

2026 Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry, Professor Polly Arnold, University of California Berkley, TBD

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California Berkeley, (Host: Prof. Deborah Leckband)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Michael Schappe, MIP, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Sam Belsky (Jin Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Statistics Seminar - Jose Zubizarreta (Harvard)

3:30 pm

2310 Everitt Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
TBA

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1002 Grainger Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 2, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

5:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sujit Datta, California Institute of Technology (Host: Prof. Ying Diao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

2026 iSchool Research Showcase

12:00 - 4:30 pm

Illini Union, Illini Rooms B & C

The iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters by School of Information Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.
- Seminar/Symposium
Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 6, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine) - "Mechanistic insights of RNA toxicity and disrupted RNA processing from modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in mice"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 9, 2026

Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology, Professor Christopher J. Chang, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Emerging Leaders Seminar, Professor Henry La Pierre, Georgia Tech University, TBD

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 13, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lucas Meirelles (Harvard/Mass General) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 14, 2026

NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium