Seminars of Interest

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B-102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amanda Smith and Katherine Hatzis, "Obtaining a job as a Chemistry Professor at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory (CLSL)
Final Defense: Catherine Jalomo, "Nanomaterials as Delivery Systems"; Professor Catherine Murphy, Advisor
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
"Molecular Catalysts go Nano: Installing Active Sites on Clusters and Nanosheets", Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Graeme Lindsey (Mehta Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Weber Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab)- "“High-throughput synthesis and specificity characterization of natively paired antibodies using oPool+ display”
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "“Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial innate immunity”
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "Understanding Molecular Level Interactions and Design of Selective Electrochemical Processes for Wastewater Treatment"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House
- 2:00 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
May 2025 Chemistry Convocation Cermony
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, May 29, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Casey Olen, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 30, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1002 Lincoln Hall
Joenisse Rosado-Rosa, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Joe Forzano, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 6, 2025

- 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
- RAL 116
St. Elmo Brady Academic Job Application Workshop
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

- 10:00 am 1:00 pm
- 116 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Riccardo Candeago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
David Gottlieb Memorial Lecture: Prof. Gerard ‘Gerry’ Wright

The 2025-26 Gotlieb Lecture — honoring the legacy of David Gottlieb, best known for his isolation of chloramphenicol from Streptomyces venezuelae at the University of Illinois — will feature Dr. Gerard (Gerry) Wright, who is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University.
- Lecture

Saturday, November 1, 2025

- 8:00 am
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium