Seminars of Interest

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

• • 1:00 pm
    
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  FINAL DEFENSE: Mashiat Chowdhury (Jin lab) - RNA BINDING PROTEINS AND SNORNAS CHANGE THE RIBOSOME DYNAMICS IN TRANSLATION

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 14, 2023

• • 9:00 am
    
  • 171 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Austin Weigle, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Selectivity Principles of Translocation Catalysis by Membrane Transporters"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 15, 2023

• • 10:00 am
    
  • Noyes Lab 217

  FINAL DEFENSE: Daniel Hu, "Development of Organometallic Nickel Complexes with Oxygenase-type Reactivity”, Advisor: Professor Liviu Mirica

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 16, 2023

• • 1:30 - 2:30 pm
    
  • Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE Winter Convocation

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 2:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  CHBE Winter Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, January 4, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Jolene Reid, The University of British Columbia, "Predictive Chemistry as an Enabling Tool For Asymmetric Catalysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 5, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 roger Adams Lab

  Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Mayuko Isomura, Harvard University, "Title TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 11, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Dr. John Mcintosh, Merck, "Evolving Ideal Syntheses of Therapeutics with Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 18, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Joe Clark, Marquette University, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 22, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture: Amgen rep TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture: Professor Sunkyu Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Carter Fellow: Yanheng Chen (Chen lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 25, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Jeetain Mittal, Texas A&M University (Shukla)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Matthew R. Golder, University of Washington, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 26, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Daniel Conway, The Ohio State University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Dabich Fellow: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Nick Baker (Kalsotra lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 1, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 5, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Laura M. K. Dassama, Stanford University, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 8, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan (Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture: Genentech rep: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture: Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zürich, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 9, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Beth Stadtmueller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Carter Fellow: Yiquan Wang (Wu lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Yuwei Pan (Zhao lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 15, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: David Piwnica-Worms, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 16, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Diana Rose E. Ranoa (University of Illinois), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Abdoulaye Djire, Texas A&M University (Shukla)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Weber Fellow: Chi Zhang (Fratti lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 26, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  BMS Lecture: BMS rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Adrianne Rosales, Texas A&M University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  BMS Lecture: Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, University of Bologna, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Rebecca Tang (Huang lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 29, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C.S. Marvel Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 1, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nicholas Wu (University of Illinois), “Deciphering antibody sequences”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 4, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture, Merck rep: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture w/Professor Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Herdeline Ardona, Texas A&M University (Shukla), "Designing Peptidic Materials as Transducer Biointerfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

• • 3:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Sylvia M. Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Janhavi Borkar (Nair lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Xinyi Dai (Shapiro lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 7, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Michael Doherty, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Integrated Chemical Reaction Process Systems: From Alan Turing to Martin Feinberg" (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Fuson Student Talks: Dinh Thanh Nguyen: "Bioinformatic-guided discovery of a novel natural product biosynthesized by distinct classes of metalloenzymes", Chelsea Swartchick:"Activity-based Bioluminescence Probe Reveals Crosstalk Between the Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment and the ALDH Cancer Stem Cell Biomarker, Jacob D. Weaver: "A preparative small-molecule mimic of liver CYP450 enzymes in the aliphatic C–H oxidation of carbocyclic N-heterocycles"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 8, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Jonathan Chekan (UNC-Greensboro), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

• • 8:30 am
    
  • TBD

  International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin Madison (Mironenko) "Catalytic Performance Descriptors: An Atomic-scale Perspective"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 14, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    

  International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. David Waite, UNSW Sydney, (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 25, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture: 3M Rep: TBD, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture: Professor Clemence Corminboeuf, EPFL, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey R. Long, University of California, Berkeley (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Evan Hebner (leckband/Brieher lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Jessica Derham (Kalsotra lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 28, 2024

• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  Alumni Lecture - Prof. Richard Lazarus (BS, ’76), Harvard Law - title TBD

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Andrew Greytak, University of South Carolina, (TBD) (M)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 1, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Jeffrey Rudolf, University of Florida, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 4, 2024

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Student Select Seminar: Professor Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, University of Utah, (TBD)(M)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 5, 2024

• • 11:00 am
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

  7th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 8, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep TBD, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: Professor Daniele Leonori, RWTH Aachen, Germany, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey Greeley, Purdue University (Mironenko)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Michael Green, University of California - Irvine, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Jackson Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Recny Fellow: Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Eric Appel, Stanford University (Rogers)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo, University of Central Florida, (TBD) (M)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 12, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar: Asst. Prof. Andrew R. Buller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • Illini Union Ballroom (2nd floor)

  CHBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • Illini Union Ballroom

  ChBE Undergraduate Scholarship and Awards Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 15, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Janssen Lecture: Janssen rep TBD: "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Janssen Lecture: Professor Motomu Kanai, University of Tokyo, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Han Li, University of California, Irvine (Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Shweta Shree (Sligar lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• • 8:30 am
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  2023 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis: Francis Alcorn, (TBD) (M)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Chinedum Osuji, University of Pennsylvania (Kuenstler)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Thomas Muir, Princeton University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 19, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Andrew Ward (Scripps Research), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Todd Hyster, Princeton University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 25, 2024

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Oana Luca, University of Colorado, (TBD) (M)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2024

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Armita Nourmohammad (University of Washington), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    

  OutinChem Annual Invited Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Petter, Founder and CIO of Arrakis Therapeutics

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Priya Shah, University of California, Davis (Shukla)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Dean Allan Sherry, University of Texas - Dallas, (TBD)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Distingushed Inorganic Lecture: Professor Dean Allan Sherry, University of Texas - Dallas, (TBD)(I)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Adam Renslo, University of California-San Francisco

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Jesus Velazquez, University of California - Davis, (TBD) (M)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 4, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium