College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Integrative Biology

Plant Biology

Monday, January 20, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline to cancel registration (dropping all Spring 2025 classes)
- Informational

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for students to register for first classes without being charged $15 late fee penalty
- Informational
- All Day
First day of instruction for Spring POT 1 and POT A courses
- Informational
- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
Late registration begins via Student Self-Service, $15 late fee applies
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Matthew Doremus, Affiliation Talk, UIUC, Too Hot to Handle?: Temperature shapes the heritable endosymbiont community of an agricultural spider
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 23, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Friday, January 24, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Thomas Benson, Principal Research Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, INHS: Spatiotemporal variation in avian reproduction
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, January 25, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Sunday, January 26, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Monday, January 27, 2025

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
Transcripts on hold for Fall 2024 degrees are released
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis

LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Reed Crawford, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Intentional roosts: Using science to improve artificial roosting habitats for bats
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 30, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Friday, January 31, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Anderson Lab, SICB talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Natural History Building Core
Recruiting Reception
- Reception/Open House

Saturday, February 1, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Sunday, February 2, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Monday, February 3, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
"10th Day" Add/Drop Deadline
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Lightning Talks by Entomology Faculty and Graduate Students, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 8:30 am
- Morrill Hall 286
SIB Awards Applications due
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Sophie Larsen, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Intentional roosts: Using science to improve artificial roosting habitats for bats
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Friday, February 7, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - EEB Graduate Student Recruiting Event
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, February 8, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Sunday, February 9, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Monday, February 10, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Tierney Brosius, Associate Professor, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Dorota Porazinska , University of Florida, Antarctic cryoconite holes: a model ecosystem for microbial community research
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Friday, February 14, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to drop a POT A course via Student Self-Service
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to drop a POT A (1st 8 week) course via Student Self-Service without grade of W
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis in POT A course
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to file intent to use Campus Grade Replacement option in POT A course
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Lisa Surber-Cunningham - EEB PhD Candidate - Exit Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, February 15, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Sunday, February 16, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Monday, February 17, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Gene Robinson, Professor, Entomology, IGB, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: TBA -- Trainee Host: Vanessa Jones/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Michael Catchen, Université de Montréal, Predicting the shifting biogeography of species interactions with machine learning
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational

Friday, February 21, 2025

- All Day
Health Insurance Change/Waiver Period
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Isaac Miller-Crews, Indiana University - Topic: Cool transcriptomics work
- Seminar/Symposium

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

- 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

- 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

- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to drop a POT A course without a grade of W
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to elect credit/no credit for a POT A course or to change from credit/no credit to a regular grade
- Informational
- All Day
Full payment due for Spring 2025 charges unless on a payment plan
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Sheela Turbek, Colorado State University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Daniel Schmehl, Science Fellow, Global Pollinator Safety Expert, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis
- 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

- 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

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cheng Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Alison Ravenscraft, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Faculty deadline for reporting midterm grades for freshmen.
- Informational
- 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
- 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 - Michelle Samuel-Foo, Chief of Staff, USDA-NIFA, Atlanta, GA
- 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

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

- All Day
2:00 PM Faculty deadline for reporting POT A (1st 8 week) grades
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for ALL students to drop POT B (2nd 8 week) course for refund if tuition range changes or billing hours decrease.
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to add POT B course via Student Self-Service
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to add POT B (2nd 8 week) course
- 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

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Elliott Zieman, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
- 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

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

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

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
- 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

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: "TBA"
- 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

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

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

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