Plant Biology

Monday, December 1, 2025

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  Instruction resumes

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - Debajit Saha, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University - "Development and application of novel insect olfaction-based “Cyborg” gas sensors for disease detection"

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

  12:00 pm

  612 Conference Center

  Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley “What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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  Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization

  12:00 pm

  612 Conference Center

  "Engineered High-Throughput Microtissue System for Liver Differentiation and Organization" Brock Grenci, PhD Candidate Department of Bioengineering

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  "Plant and bacterial technologies to enhance associative biological nitrogen fixation in non-leguminous crops. " with Dr. Jean-Michel Ane

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Raffaela Lesch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Urbanization, Domestication, and the Neural Crest: A Shared Developmental Pathway?"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

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  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "Harnessing the power of genomics to detect and control pathogens and antimicrobial resistance"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

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  EEB Colloquium: Zach Heiple, UCSD, "Evolution of Morphology in Deepsea Fishes"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Plant Biology Colloquium - James Dalling, Professor, SIB, UIUC

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Plant Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Room 1103

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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  Entomology Colloquium - Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC

  11:00 am

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  Activity of chromatin remodeling motors controls nuclear mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments

  12:00 pm

  612 Conference Center

  Paul A. Janmey, PhD Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Center for Engineering Mechanobiology University of Pennsylvania "Activity of chromatin remodeling motors controls nuclear mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  "TBD. " with Dr. Eliana Monteverde

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Ramapo College of New Jersey, "Uniting Tinbergen’s four questions to understand avian brood parasitism"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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  PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 23, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Mentoring Sessions"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 29, 2026

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  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Matthew Cabeen, Oklahoma State University -- "Careful control for costly competition: a “two-key” mechanism for pyocin regulation in P. aeruginosa"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Julia Jehn, EEB, "Plant Defenses"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

• 

  PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Working together for sustainable bat diversity in a changing world: The Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 5, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Andrea Graham, Princeton University -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, Julian Catchen, and Grads, EEB, "Graduate Recruiting"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 12, 2026

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  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. John Schroggins, University of Texas Southwestern -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Bell Lab members, EEB, "Stickleback Behavior"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, "Evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms as a driver for cell type expansions in animals"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

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  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Vanderbilt University -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Tour of Champions, Meaghan Clark, "Rattlesnake conservation"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

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  EEB Colloquium: Katie Karl and Amanda Martinez, "Conservation Genomics of Herps"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

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  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 5, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Bernhardt, Harvard University - "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

• 

  PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris, "Interdisciplinarity and Museum Collections in the Study of Cockroach Evolution"

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 13, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: EEB, "Coffee Hour"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• 

  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

• 

  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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  Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• 

  PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 26, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Chen Chen, Louisiana State University -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Ed Newcomer, "Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Nonacademic career, Conservation Stings"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

• 

  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"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "Understanding hantavirus pathogenesis through innate immune activation"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Michelle Villalobos, EEB, "Defense"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adam Deutschbauer, University of California - Berkeley -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Anne Aka, EEB, UV Coloration and Vision in Fish

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mauricio Pontes, Penn State University -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

• 

  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"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

• 

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Courtney Ellison, University of Georgia -- "TBA"

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

• 

  EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, EEB, "ASN Presidential Address Practice Talk"

  9:00 am

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• 

  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• 

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 

  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other