Seminars of Interest

Friday, September 17, 2021

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  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Contact Department for Zoom Link

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Sujatha Jagannathan (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics), “When cell's garbage disposal fails: Compromised RNA quality control in the human muscle disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85464755166?pwd=NWF4NmxXeWl6NUZVZ0VKVjBCaXpjZz09 Meeting ID: 854 6475 5166 Password: 122305

  Professor Sara Thoi, Johns Hopkins University, Title: Designing Functional Sites in Porous Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 20, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Frank Leibfarth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Modern Approaches to Functional and Sustainable Thermoplastics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Prof. Kenneth Suslick - The Seminar on Seminars

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Qiqi Tian (Zhao lab) - Insights into bacterial secondary metabolism in plant-associated ecosystems.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 23, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Virtual Event via Zoom (link will be provided at later time)

  Professor Shanteri Singh, University of Oklahoma, "Utilizing Aromatic Prenyltransferases for the Late-stage Diversification of Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 24, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84458568819?pwd=blc3UU0yVUJna2JLTWlXZ1F4WFh3UT09 Meeting ID: 844 5856 8819 Password: 535875

  Professor Christopher Barile, University of Nevada, Reno Title: Electronically Switchable Windows based on Reversible Metal Electrodeposition

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Toney, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Insights into Battery Operation and Degradation through X-ray Scattering" (host: Diao)

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

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Thomas Trzupek, "Norrish Type II Reaction-Enabled C–H Functionalization and Annulation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    

  Prof. James Shepherd, University of Iowa, "Developing electronic structure methods for metals and electrons with finite temperature”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 30, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88040774859?pwd=T2JLNGFGdEVhOGFteXc1UlZnZ3FQZz09

  Professor R. Lee Penn, University of Minnesota

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 4, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Virtual Event via Zoom

  Prof. Xin Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, "Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Chiwon Hwang, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

• • 3:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Kimberly Hilby, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of a Lewis Base Catalyzed, Sulfenium-ion Initiated Enantioselective, Spiroketalization Cascade".

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Andrea Hernandez Garcia (Nair lab)

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Page Daniels (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 8, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    

  17th Annual Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium, Pam Silver, Ph.D., Duke University, title "Designing Biology for Health and Sustainability"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 11, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85090613157?pwd=d0RQY2JyTWwyYWxhank4OUpUMC9rUT09

  Professor Yaoqiu Zhu, University of Texas at El Paso, "Integrative Organic Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Studies for Reviving Natural Product Drug Discovery and Solving Clinical Pharmacotherapy Conundrums"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Amanda Milkovits, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    

  Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova, University of California Los Angeles, " Dynamic catalytic interfaces: ensembles of multiple metastable states break the rules of catalysis"

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

  Darjan Duraki (Shapiro lab)

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Christine Devlin (Procko lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 14, 2021

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Noah Haskin, UIUC, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 15, 2021

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Contact Department for Zoom Link

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wilfried Weber (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies), “TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 18, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Dr. Eugenia Trushina, Mayo Clinic, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    

  Prof. David Masiello, University of Washington, TBA

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

  Qi Zou (Cronan)

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

  Yanheng Chen (Chen)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 21, 2021

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mayuresh Gadgil, UIUC, Title TBD

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lily Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors" (host: Shukla)

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

  Professor Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 25, 2021

• • 1:15 pm
    

  FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Bijal Bankim Patel, "Self-Assembly and Additive Manufacturing of Bottlebrush Block Copolymer Photonic Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Arnab Mukherjee, University of California Santa Barbara, "Biomolecular Imaging with Magnetic Resonance" (host: Schroeder)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Huaxun Fan (Zhang)

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

  Stella Ekaputri (Burke)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 28, 2021

• • 9:00 am
    
  • 279 Davenport Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Whitney Sinclair, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Thomas Pires, UIUC, Title TBD

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

  Professor Jason Hein, University of British Columbia, Title: "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 29, 2021

• • 8:00 am
    
  • registration details coming soon

  Student Research Lightning Talks

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Contact Department for Zoom Link

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Kenneth Matreyek (Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology), “TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • registration details coming soon

  Student Research Lightning Talks

  • Lecture

Monday, November 1, 2021

• • 1:00 pm
    
  • TBA

  FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Hao Yu, "TBA"

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

  Professor Song Lin, Cornell University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Zachary Firestein, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Christopher Hawk (Jin lab)

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

  Sonya Kumar Bharathkar (Stadtmueller lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 4, 2021

• • 10:00 am
    

  Allan Sykes, UIUC, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jennifer Laaser, University of Pittsburgh (host: Sing)

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

  Professor Christina W. Li, Purdue University, "Tuning Active Sites in Catalytic Nanomaterials through Colloidal Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 8, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Julia Kalow, Northwestern University, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Nolan Green, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Cheyenne Mitchell, UIUC, TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: David Friday, UIUC, TBA

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

  Junya Li (Kalsotra lab)

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

  Lainie Liang (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 12, 2021

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wenjing Wang (University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry), “Designing molecular sensors and tools for studying brain signaling"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lisa Hall, The Ohio State University, "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Transport through Block Copolymers" (host: Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • TBD

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: David Durden, UIUC, TBA

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

  Chem 545 Literature Seminar: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, UIUC, TBA

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

  Kisurb Choe (Sweedler lab)

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

  Kritika Mehta (Zhang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 18, 2021

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Marya Ornelas, UIUC, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Blair Brettmann, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    

  Professor Michael Jewett, Northwestern University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 29, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Hans Renata, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • contact cbowser@illinois.edu

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Carlos Aguilar, University of Michigan (host: Harley)

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

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Samantha Barlock, Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Recny Fellow: Santanu Ghosh (Shapiro lab)

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

  TJ Oh (Zhang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 2, 2021

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Christopher Rakowski, UIUC, Title TBD

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Rafael Verduzco, Rice University, "Molecular Engineering and Processing of Covalent Organic Frameworks" (host: Guironnet)

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

  Prof. Daniel Suess, MIT, TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 3, 2021

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program and Dept. of Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Erin Adams (The University of Chicago) "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Erin Adams, University of Chicago, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Dr. Gregg Beckham, "Development of Chemical Recycling Approaches for Waste Plastics" (host: Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Mashiat Chowdhury (Jin lab)

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

  Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 27, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • PENDING VIRTUAL VS. IN-PERSON

  Professor Laura Kiessling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Sarah Gardner (Chan lab)

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

  Zack Dewald (Kalsotra lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Heather Liu (Stadtmueller lab)

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

  Issac Kim (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab)

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

  Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Brendan Sullivan (Leckband lab)

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

  Yannan Tian (Huang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 24, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Aldrich Lecture: Professor Tristan Lambert, Cornell University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Che Yang (Zhao lab)

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

  Layla Wu (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 3, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Marvel Postdoc Symposium: 'TBD'

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Dylan Blaha (Kranz lab)

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

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Krishna Narayanan (Procko lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 10, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Fuson Student Talks: "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Arthur Zou (Leckband lab)

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

  Ullyot Fellow: Shukun Yang (Silverman lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 28, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    

  Novartis Lecture: Novartis rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

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

  Novartis Lecture: Professor Ruth Gschwind, University of Regensburg, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 31, 2022

• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Suslick-Sessler Lecture: Professor Thomas Mallouk, U. Penn., TBA

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Suslick-Sessler Lecture: Professor Thomas Mallouk, U. Penn., TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 1, 2022

• • 11:00 am   1pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 4, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

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

  AbbVie Lecture: Prof. Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab)

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

  Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 11, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  3M Lecture, Dr. Mike Wendland, 3M rep, "Title: TBD"

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

  3M Lecture, Prof. Oren A. Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab)

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

  Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 18, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Merck Lecture: Merck Rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins, TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab)

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

  Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 25, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

  Genentech Lecture: Genentech rep: Dr. Mike Siu, "Title: TBD"

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

  Genentech Lecture: Prof. Eiji Yashima, Nagoya University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Professor David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins, TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 6, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    

  Flygare Memorial Lecture, Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, TBA

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    

  Flygare Memorial Lecture, Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, TBA

  • Lecture