College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

Plant Biology

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Kelsey Coffman, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - "When viruses turn good: parasitoid wasps as models for understanding mutualistic virus evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Investigating and engineering the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies

Beth M. Stadtmueller, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Biomedical & Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mining for anti-infectious Molecules from Genomes Research Theme "Investigating and engineering the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Morgan Letzkus/Mera Lab and Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Optimization of In Vitro Reservoir Computing informed by Volume Electron Microscopy and Simulation

"Optimization of In Vitro Reservoir Computing informed by Volume Electron Microscopy and Simulation" Andrew Dou, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Science & Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Michelle Facette, UMass.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Andrew Gloss, University of Georgia, : Illuminating evolutionary transitions to herbivory using genomics and functional genetics
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2025

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Daniel Schmehl, Science Fellow, Global Pollinator Safety Expert, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis - “Expanding beyond the requirements: Modernizing pesticide risk characterization for bee pollinators”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures

"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Maria Salas Fernandez, Iowa State University.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Edwin Lewis, University of Idaho, Group dynamics of parasitic worms: learning from the slithering herd
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cheng Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Tracy Lawson
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Alison Ravenscraft, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington - "Where do the insect gut microbiota come from? Patterns and implications of environmental symbiont acquisition in herbivorous insects"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Faculty deadline for reporting midterm grades for freshmen.
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Expanding the Functional Proteome

Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- All Day
POT A (1st 8 week) grade entry enabled for Instructors in Faculty Self-Service
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Coralie Salesse- Smith, UIUC.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Jacob Goheen, Iowa State University, A game of thorns: how plant defense shapes predator-prey interactions in African savannas
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other
- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Sunday, March 16, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Monday, March 17, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Thursday, March 20, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Friday, March 21, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Saturday, March 22, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Sunday, March 23, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other
- All Day
POT B courses begin (non-standard courses may begin earlier or later)
- Informational
- All Day
Priority registration Time Tickets (earliest registration times) for Summer and Fall 2025 available on Student Self-Service
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Jon Tetlie, Grad Student Exit Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago. "The mode and tempo of plant adaptation to contemporary agriculture”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Elliott Zieman, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University - "Seminar title: Implications of altered ecosystems for vector-borne pathogens"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Steven Eichinger/Brooke Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
Deadline to withdraw from the university and receive the minimum 40% pro-rata refund if enrolled mainly in full semester classes
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Alex Weiss, Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo - Topic: Non-Academic Career
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Don Ort
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- All Day
Priority registration for Summer and Fall 2025 begins
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Entomology Graduate Student Appreciate Week
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yaowu Yuan, UConn. "How and why do plants evolve so many beautiful forms of flowers in nature?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Yuki Haba, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montréal, QC - "Spiders on the web: silk-based communication, flexible foraging strategies, and the transmission of online (mis)information"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Moeller, UMN.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Cassandra Extavour, Professor, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Tie Liu, UF. “Aging, senescence, and stress in plants: what we have learned from Arabidopsis to horticultural crops”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Kevin Neumann, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, The individual and collective behavior of social organisms across environments
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- All Day
Open registration begins for Summer and Fall 2025
- Informational
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Hojun Song, Professor, Texas A&M University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yiping Qi, UMD. "Developing Genome Engineering Tools to Advance Crop Improvement"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- All Day
Deadline to update Study Abroad and Thesis 599 registration.
- Informational
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to drop POT B course without grade of W
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis for POT B course
- Informational
- All Day
Deferred (DFR) grades for Study Abroad and Thesis 599 sections are rolled to Academic History
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cáceres Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Ya Min (Minya)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Tolulope (Tolu) Morawo, Entomologist, US Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- All Day
Last day of instruction
- Informational

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational
- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 10, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational

Sunday, May 11, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational

Monday, May 12, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- All Day
Final examination period (weekdays only)
- Informational

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Degree conferral and campus-wide commencement
- Informational

Monday, May 19, 2025

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

Friday, May 23, 2025

- 8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Faculty deadline for reporting grades
- Informational

Friday, May 30, 2025

- All Day
College deadline for reporting Academic Standing
- Informational

Monday, June 2, 2025

- All Day
Transcripts on hold for Spring 2025 grades will be released.
- Informational

Monday, June 16, 2025

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

Monday, June 23, 2025

- All Day
College deadline for reporting Dean’s List
- Informational

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

- All Day
Transcripts on hold for Spring 2025 degrees are released.
- Informational

School of Integrative Biology

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

2002 Natural History Building

1301 W. Green St.

Urbana, IL 61801