College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

PEEC

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. John J. Wiens, University of Arizona, "The Origins and Future of Global Biodiversity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Affiliation Seminar- Dr. Jonathan Henn, NRES, "Grassland restoration and management under environmental change"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 8:30
SIB Distinction Application due date
- Informational

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

- 8:30
SIB Distinction Application due date
- Informational

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar (Virtual) - Dr. Denise Devotta, Moleaer, "Career Options Outside of Academia and the Federal Government for PEEC Students"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Ya Min, UIUC, "Patterning the meristem: development and evolution of the floral ground plan"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
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"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
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""
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Raffaela Lesch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Urbanization, "Domestication, and the Neural Crest: A Shared Developmental Pathway?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Ramapo College of New Jersey, "Uniting Tinbergen’s four questions to understand avian brood parasitism"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Why Do People Hunt Bats?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
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"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
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"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

- 8:30 am
- Memorial Stadium
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

School of Integrative Biology

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

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505 S. Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801