OCR Event Manager - Master Calendar

Monday, August 17, 2026

• Warblers, Sparrows, and Thrushes, Oh My!

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  801 N Country Fair Dr, Ste D, Champaign, IL, United States, Illinois 61821

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

• Final Defense of Changhyun Hwang, "Autonomous experimentation for AI-driven discovery of functional molecules""

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

• Final Defense of Tiara Torres-Flores, "Iterative Synthesis of Precise Conjugated Oligomers for Understanding Assembly and Photostability"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3269 Beckman

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 20, 2026

• Final Defense of Song Yin, "Integrating Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning for Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• IQUIST Town Hall: IQUIST Director Elizabeth Goldschmidt

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Interim Department Head, Professor Nicole Riemer

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Rizwan Uddin and Mohan Sankaran

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

• TBD with Dr. James Santiago

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 27, 2026

• Leader-Driven Collusion

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 28, 2026

• Urbana-Style Condensed Matter, Condensed, a mini-symposium

  Time

  1:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190 & Supercon 2nd Floor

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, August 31, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker Max Li: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Professor Kelvin Droegemeier

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Measuring the physical properties of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Wenzhen Yuan

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• TBD with Dr. Alvaro Hernandez

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, "AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  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".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "When Industry Asks "How?", Scientists Ask "Why?": Molecular Interactions Behind Carbon Capture and Surface-Controlled Chemical Transformations"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Shanjun Li (Stanford)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 4, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, August 31, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker Max Li: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Professor Kelvin Droegemeier

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Measuring the physical properties of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Wenzhen Yuan

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• TBD with Dr. Alvaro Hernandez

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, "AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  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".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "When Industry Asks "How?", Scientists Ask "Why?": Molecular Interactions Behind Carbon Capture and Surface-Controlled Chemical Transformations"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Shanjun Li (Stanford)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 4, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "A unifying tool for stabilizer codes beyond the qubit model", Lane Gunderman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Chicago

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Jacob P. Covey

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sara Ruane, Field Museum of Natural History, "Museums Collections as a Backbone for Contemporary Science"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • 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"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Materials Seminar, "Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Matter at the Nanoscale", Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • 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"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 14, 2026

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• Seminar Speakers: Professors Jerry Harrington, Meteorology and Miriam Freedman, Chemistry-Penn State University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Taek K. Kim

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Final Defense of Genesis Rios-Adorno "TBA"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3217 Everitt Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Dayne Swearer, Northwestern University, "Catalytic Chemistry Far from Equilibrium"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Joseph Walker, University of Illinois Chicago, "Herbarium RNA as a Source of Evolutionary Insights"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 17, 2026

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Roger Adams Labortatory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, Room 419

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Translation beyond Initiation, Elongation and Termination"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• A Conversation on the Modern University, the Mind, and Well-Being With Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님)

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Rooms A, B, & C at 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 21, 2026

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Elizabeth Maroon-University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE) "From Catalytic Insights to Transformative Technologies"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Marie Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Marie Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Areg Danagoulian

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Saurabh Gupta

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Tracey Tuberville, University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab, "Conservation Takeaways from Stalking North America’s Tortoises"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 24, 2026

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 25, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "Enhanced FIB-SEM: A High-Resolution 3D Imaging Platform for Biology"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Kyle Abo, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Synthesis Towards the Development of Novel Anticancer Compounds Derived from Natural Products and Existing Drugs"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 28, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Microbial Chemistry in Anoxic Host Environments"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Troy Zaremba-Mississippi State University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Ashley Hartwig CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Director & Founder Professor Jim Rehg

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, "Theory of Extended Bose-Hubbard Systems and Two-Dimensional Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, University of Chicago, "Where Science Meets Story: Engaging Audiences Through the Arts"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Erin Swanson CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Krishna Bharadwaj CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 28, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Microbial Chemistry in Anoxic Host Environments"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Troy Zaremba-Mississippi State University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Ashley Hartwig CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Director & Founder Professor Jim Rehg

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, "Theory of Extended Bose-Hubbard Systems and Two-Dimensional Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, University of Chicago, "Where Science Meets Story: Engaging Audiences Through the Arts"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Erin Swanson CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Krishna Bharadwaj CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Erika Huang CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Rajesh Maingi

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Yuxiong Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• TBD with Ms. Alyssa Hartman

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Bernie Kuhajda, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, "The Southeast’s Aquatic Biodiversity: Why it Rocks!"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• 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

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Kyle Lancaster, Cornell University, "TBD"

  Time

  1:30

  Location

  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).

  Time

  8:00 am - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  

  • Seminar/Symposium