Seminars of Interest

Thursday, May 29, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • RAL 171

  "SERS Investigations of Additive Interactions at Cu Surfaces for Cu Electrodeposition and Cu Electroless Deposition", Final Defense, Gavin Linsday

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  Casey Olen, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemoinformatics for the Identification of More Optimal Copper-Bis(oxazoline) Catalysts and Mechanistic Investigations into the Catalytic, Enantioselective Tin-Amine Protocol"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 30, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave, RAL 433

  Physical Final Defense: Kevin Adams, "From Tilings and Master Equations to Microkinetic Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1002 Lincoln Hall

  Joenisse Rosado-Rosa, UIUC, Final Defense, "Metabolomic Insights Into Pseudomonas aeruginosa Behavior, Secretome, and Biofilm Development Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging"

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

  "Electrocatalysis in environmental management: Tuning the interface to achieve reaction selectivity", Professor Carlos M. Sánchez-Sánchez, Sorbonne Université

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • RAL 419

  "Probing Functionalized Interfaces for Carbon Capture Using Spectroelectrochemistry", Abdur-Rahman Siddiqui, Final Defense

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 5, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1024 Chemistry Annex

  Joe Forzano, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of ALDH1A1-Activated Photosensitizers for Targeted Photodynamic Therapy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "Novel Understandings of Yielding in Soft Materials Through Recovery Rheology Techniques""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 6, 2025

• • 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
  • RAL 116

  St. Elmo Brady Academic Job Application Workshop

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Chris Hawk (Jin Lab) - "Alleviating Ribosomal Stalls: Functional Characterization of Conserved DRG GTPASES"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • 419 Roger Adams Lab

  Sungjong Lee, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am   1:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Riccardo Candeago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  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

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik, University of Rhode Island (host: Simon Rogers)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Alex Spokoyny, University of California, Los Angeles, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 11, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta (host: Baron Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 CHEM ANNEX

  Inorganic Seminar, Professor Selvan Demir, Michigan State University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 18, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania (host: Joon Kong)

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

  Materials Seminar, Professor Adam Jaffe, University of Notre Dame, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University (host: Theresa Schoetz)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California, Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 25, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, October 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

  37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 12, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Danielle Mai, Stanford University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Inorganic Seminar, Professor Raúl Hernandez Sanchez, Rice University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 27, 2026

• • 5:00 pm
  • TBD

  2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor Dr. Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

• • 3:30 pm
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Speaker, Professor Dr. Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium