Seminars of Interest

Monday, November 18, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Novartis Lecture: Dr. Duncan Shaw, "Designing Kinase Inhibitors for Inhaled Delivery the PDGFR Story"

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

  Novartis Lecture: Professor Janine Cossy, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris Tech), "Transition Metal Catalysts. Construction and Functionalization of Heterocycles"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 419 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE: Paola Estrada (Nair lab) - "METABOLITE BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES: CATALYSIS, SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
    
  • 217 NL

  Informal - Professor Ginger Shultz, University of Michigan, "The Development of Expertise in Structure Elucidation using NMR Spectroscopy"

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

  Ms. Rachel Farmer, UIUC, "Arene Functionalization by Cooperative Catalysis of Pd(II) and Norbornene"

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Physical Chemistry Literature Seminar, Hannah Shay, "Causes of Extraterrestrial Non-Mass-Dependent Isotope Fractionations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Physical Chemistry Literature Seminar, Joseph Wright, "Beyond Oganesson: Relativistic Effects and the Next Row of the Periodic Table"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Physical Chemistry Literature Seminar, Rachel Wallick, "SO2 Adsorption onto Aqueous Aerosol Surfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
    
  • 1000 Lincoln Hall

  Informal - Professor Ginger Shultz, University of Michigan, "Writing in STEM: Faculty conceptions of writing and its role in the undergraduate classroom"

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

  Lawrence Wang (Shapiro lab) - Estrogen-Receptor--Positive Breast Cancer Metastasis: Therapy and Mechanisms

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Paige Daniels (van der Donk lab) -"Insights into the biosynthesis of pyrolloiminoquinones with PEARL enzymes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 21, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley, "Negative Diffusion Coefficients in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 22, 2019

• 

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

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Andrew Gulick (The State University of New York at Buffalo), "Structural Studies of Antibiotic Production by Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases"

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

  Ms. Sara Bell, UIUC, Title: "Mid-Infrared Photothermal (MIP) Imaging of Live Cells."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 2, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Masayuki Wasa, Boston College, "Recent Advances in Enantioselective Cooperative Catalysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Ericka Bruske, UIUC, "TBA"

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

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Kelly Gullett, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Student Select Seminar: Prof. William Moerner, Stanford University, "Providing 3D for Super-Resolution Microscopy and Single-Particle Tracking in Cells with Single Molecules”

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

  JI Eun Kim (Shapiro lab) -

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

  Kisurb Choe (Sweedler lab) - Characterization of microbial fatty acids for biofuel research

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 5, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Ralph Colby, Penn State University, "Flow-Induced Crystallization of Engineering Thermoplastics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 6, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Professor Dana Baum, St. Louis University; Title: "Investigating the redox properties of aptamer-cofactor complexes."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 9, 2019

• • 9:00 am
    
  • 279 Davenport

  FINAL DEFENSE, Ms. Ge Qu, "Multi-scale Morphology Development in Solution Coated Conjugated Polymer Thin Films"

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

  Professor Song Lin, Cornell University, "Amping Up Organic Chemistry with Electricity: An Electrocatalytic Approach to Reaction Discovery"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

• • 1:00 pm
    
  • 419 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE: Kuan-Yu Lai (van der Donk lab) - ’Diverse functions of LanCL proteins in mammalian cells’’

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington, "Structure-function Relationships at the Bio/Nano Interface"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, “Plasmonic Bio-Assemblies and Metastructures: Chirality, Coherent Transfer of Plasmons and Generation of Hot Electrons”

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

  Dayu Zhang (Martinis lab) -

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

  Josephine Watson (Das lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 7:00 pm
    
  • 100 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Chemistry Holiday Magic Show

  Holiday Magic will take place at 100 Noyes Lab (505 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana). Show times are December 11 (Wednesday) at 7:00 p.m. and December 14 (Saturday) and 15 (Sunday) at 2:00 p.m. The show is free and open to the public; no tickets required. We invite guests to bring nonperishable food items to be donated to the Eastern Illinois Food Bank.

  • Performance

Thursday, December 12, 2019

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Chris Murray, University of Pennsylvania, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 14, 2019

• 

  • 2:00 pm
    
  • 100 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Chemistry Holiday Magic Show

  Holiday Magic will take place at 100 Noyes Lab (505 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana). Show times are December 11 (Wednesday) at 7:00 p.m. and December 14 (Saturday) and 15 (Sunday) at 2:00 p.m. The show is free and open to the public; no tickets required. We invite guests to bring nonperishable food items to be donated to the Eastern Illinois Food Bank.

  • Performance

Sunday, December 15, 2019

• 

  • 2:00 pm
    
  • 100 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Chemistry Holiday Magic Show

  Holiday Magic will take place at 100 Noyes Lab (505 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana). Show times are December 11 (Wednesday) at 7:00 p.m. and December 14 (Saturday) and 15 (Sunday) at 2:00 p.m. The show is free and open to the public; no tickets required. We invite guests to bring nonperishable food items to be donated to the Eastern Illinois Food Bank.

  • Performance

Saturday, December 21, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Winter 2019 Convocation

  The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will hold a winter convocation ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, in Room 116 of Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 South Mathews Ave., Urbana. The speaker is Dan Hanus, BS '86.

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, January 23, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Hosea M. Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Aldrich Lecture: Prof. Todd Hyster, Princeton University, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Arpita Chakravarti (Huang lab) -

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

  Lauren Carnevale (Das lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Alison Narayan, University of Michigan, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Adedolapo Ojoawo (Rienstra lab) -

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

  Darjan Durjaki (Shapiro lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture: BMS rep: TBD, Title: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture: Professor Michinori Suginome, Kyoto University, Title: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Ing Ongpipattanakul (Nair lab) -

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

  Qiqi Tian (Zhao lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Amilra De Silva, Queen's University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Emily Que, University of Texas - Austin, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Herbert E. Carter Fellow: Ullas V. Chembazhi (Kalsotra lab) -

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

  Xuejiao Song (Cronan lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture: Amgen rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture: Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Reactions Lecture: Professor Corey Stephenson: "title: TBD:

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Charles F. Kade Fellow: Zhenglin Yang (Lu lab) -

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

  Kevin Gill (Procko lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. Patrick Hopkins, University of Virginia, TBD

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

  Andrew Blake (Burke lab) -

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

  Zac Dewald (Kalsotra lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 5, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Thomas Kempa, John Hopkins University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 9, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Keary Engle, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Jimmy Do (Tajkhorshid lab) -

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

  Qi Zou (Cronan lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Fuson Student Talks:

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Santanu Ghosh (Shapiro lab) -

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Andrea Hernandez Garcia (Nair lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 26, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • TBD

  Sylvia M. Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry

  • Lecture

Monday, March 30, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Student Selected Seminar: Prof. Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBA"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor David Powers, Texas A&M University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C.S. Marvel Postdoc Symposium: Speakers: Dr. Anastassia Matviitsuk, "Title: TBA", Dr. Stephen Motika, "Title: TBA", Dr. Yun Liu, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2020

• • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    
  • B 102 CLSL (Miller Auditorium)

  Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Award Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • CLSL A-Atrium and B102 CLSL Auditorium

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium and Awards Ceremony

  • Other

Monday, April 6, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Xin Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBA

  Prof. Xin Zhang, Penn State, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Akif Tezcan, University of California San Diego, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. Tianquan (Tim) Lian, Emory State, TBD

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

  Isaac Kim (Martinis lab) -

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

  Qianqiao Liu (Rienstra lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Amanda Morris, Virginia Tech, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 13, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Emily Derbyshire, Duke University, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Inorganic Student Select Seminar: Professor Harry Gray, Caltech, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. Eric Neuscamman, University of California Berkeley, TBD

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

  Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab) -

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

  Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture: 3M representative: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture: Professor Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture: Genentech rep: Dr. Steve Saben, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture: Professor Eiji Yashima, Nagoya University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. James McCusker, Michigan State University, TBD

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

  Brendan Sullivan (Leckband lab) -

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

  Yannan Tian (Huang lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 27, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture: Merck rep: Dr. Greg Hughes, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture: Professor Masayuki Inoue, University of Tokyo, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor David Goldberg, John Hopkins University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Che Yang (Zhao lab) -

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

  Chunyu Wu (van der Donk lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Jonathan Sczepanski, Texas A&M University, "Title TBA"

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

  Professor William Dichtel, Northwestern University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2020

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Naomi Halas, Rice University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
    

  Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Naomi Halas, Rice University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

  Nelson J. Leonard Lecture, Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

  Nelson J. Leonard Lecture, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University

  • Lecture

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Professor Philip Power, University of California - Davis, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 10, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, September 26, 2020

• • 8:30 am
    
  • TBD

  Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry, Speakers: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 5, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Craig M. Crews, Yale University, "Title: TBA"

  Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Craig M. Crews, Yale University, "Title: TBA"

  Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium