Seminars of Interest

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

• • 11:00 am
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Faculty Candidate Seminar: Crystal Chu, MIT: "Disentangling the Design Space: Structure-Property Relationships for Catalyst and Biomaterials Development"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

• • 11:00 am
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Faculty Candidate Seminar: John Blanchard, Helmholtz-Institut Mainz: "Measuring the Unmeasurable with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR): Zero-Field NMR, Ultralight Dark Matter, and Molecular Parity Violation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 30, 2020

• • 10:00 am
    
  • B102

  Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Mikael Backlund, Harvard University, "Extracting Hidden Information from your Fluorescence Microscope"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Dr. Nicholas Carruthers, Janssen Research & Development, "Two Decades of Neuroscience Medicinal Chemistry at Janssen"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2020

• 

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

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Vladimir Lupashin (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), "Regulation of Golgi complex function by vesicle tethering complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Alison Narayan, University of Michigan, "Biocatalysis and Complex Molecule Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

• • 11:00 am
    
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Steven Banik, Stanford University, "Hijacking the Lysosome for Targeted Protein Degradation""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

• • 8:30 am
    

  Special Seminar: Seungeun Oh

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

  Faculty Candidate Seminar: Connor Bischak, University of Washington - Seattle: "From Solar Cells to Bioelectronics: The Interplay Between Electron and Ion Transport in Soft Semiconducting Materials"

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

  Adedolapo Ojoawo (Rienstra lab) - Investigating Protein Structure and Dynamics using Solid-State NMR and Other Biophysical Methods

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

  Darjan Durjaki (Shapiro lab) - ERa-Dependent Hyperactivation of the Unfolded Protein Response Induces Immunogenic Cell Death in Breast and Ovarian Cancer

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture: BMS rep: Dr. Antonio Ramirez, "Mechanism-Based Research in Process Development: Case Studies from the BMS Portfolio"

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

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture: Professor Michinori Suginome, Kyoto University, "Asymmetric Amplification Using Dynamic Helical PQX as a Catalyst Platform"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 144 Loomis

  Special Seminar: Mirna Milhovilovic

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

• • 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

  Ing Ongpipattanakul (Nair lab) - "Structural Characterization of a Protein Involved in Fosfomycin Biosynthesis"

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

  Qiqi Tian (Zhao lab) - Discovery and Characterization of Secondary Metabolites from Plant-Associated Bacteria

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 2269 Beckman

  Abigal Halmes, UIUC, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor AP de Silva, Queen's University, "Fluorescent Sensors and Logic Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Emily Que, University of Texas - Austin, "Coordination Chemistry in 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Agents for Illuminating Biological Environments in Vitro and in Vivo"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Prof. Ramon Grima, University of Edinburgh, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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: Dr. Kyle Quasdorf, "Title: TBA"

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

  Amgen Lecture: Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol, "Exploiting Conformational Predisposition: Biomimetic Function and New Reativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Reactions Lecture: Professor Corey Stephenson: "Redox Catalysis Strategies for Complex Molecules"

  • 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

Thursday, February 27, 2020

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Gabriela Ibarra, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 144 Loomis Lab

  CPLC Seminar: Kimberly Beatty ( Oregon Health Science University)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 2, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Squire Booker, Pennsylvania State University, title "New Insights into Radical-Dependent Methylation Reactions"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

• • 3:00 pm
    

  Alumni in Industry Lecture

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 pm
    

  Mr. Daniel Szczepankiewicz, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • 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

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Sara Eslami, UIUC, Title "TBD"

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Ashlee Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University (host: Prof. Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Dr. Nsikan Akpan, PBS NewsHour & ScienceScope, title "TBD"

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

  Professor Thomas Kempa, John Hopkins University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 6, 2020

• 

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

  Herbert E. Carter Lecture in Biochemistry: Dr. Barbara B. Kahn (Harvard Medical School), "TBA"

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

  Professor Martyn G. Boutelle, Imperial College London Title: "Wireless microfluidic sensor devices for acute clinical care"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 9, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Keary Engle, Scripps Research Institute, "Universal Alkene Functionalization as an Aspirational Driver"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Chem 585 Literature Seminar: Susan Pham, UIUC, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Mr. Neil Heberer, UIUC--Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 419 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE: Payal Mondal (Zhang lab) - "Optogenetic Regulation of Protein Activity in Live cell".

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Laura Daigh, UIUC, Title "TBD"

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Nate Lynd, University of Texas at Austin (host: Prof. Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Fuson Student Talks: Summer Laffoon, Christopher Reinhardt, Aaron Roth

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 23, 2020

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 419 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE: Surbhi Jain (Zhao lab) - "MAMMALIAN GENOME ENGINEERING: FUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lilian Hsiao, North Carolina State University, "Soft Friction Matters in Colloidal Suspensions and Tactile Perception" (host: Prof. Simon Rogers)

  • 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

Friday, March 27, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 144 Loomis Lab

  CPLC Seminar: Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford University)

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

  G. F. Smith Lecture - Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Research Campus, Title: "Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 30, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Student Selected Seminar: Prof. Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality "

  • Lecture

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Pushkar Lee, Texas A&M University (host: Prof. Chris Rao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    

  Ms. Annie Hooper, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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, "Enantio- and Diastereoselective, Lewis Base-Catalyzed, Cascade Sulfenoacetalization of Alkenyl Aldehydes", Dr. Stephen Motika, "Novel Gram-Negative Antibiotics that Target the FMN Riboswitch", Dr. Yun Liu, "From Polymer Mechanochemistry to Force-Enhanced Chemistry"

  • 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
    

  Ms. Brenna Budaitis, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Zhengxin Yu, UIUC, Title "TBD"

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

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. David Hibbitts, University of Florida (host: Prof. David Flaherty)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. James Ferry, Pennsylvania State University, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2020

• 

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

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Erika A. Taylor (Wesleyan University), "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

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Reid Van Lehn, University of Wisconsin (host: Prof. Charles Sing)

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    

  Mr. Marko Nesic, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • 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

Friday, April 17, 2020

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. Joseph Petrosino, Baylor College of Medicine, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 144 Loomis Lab

  CPLC Seminar: John F. Marko (Northwestern University)

  • 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

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Chem 515 Literature Seminar: Brian van Dyke UIUC, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    

  Mr. Zohaib Siddiqi, UIUC, 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

Thursday, April 23, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jian Qin, Stanford University (host: Prof. Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2020

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. Charles Thornton, University of Rochester Medical Center, title "TBD"

  • 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
    

  Mr. Sungjong Lee, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Arpita Chakravarti (Huang lab) -

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

  Lauren Carnevale (Das lab) -

  • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Friday, November 13, 2020

• 

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

  Rabinowitch-Govindjee Seminar: Dr. Yifan Cheng (University of California, San Francisco), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium