Seminars of Interest

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

• • 1:00 pm
    
  • C605 CLSL

  FINAL DEFENSE: Chunyu Layla Wu (van der Donk lab) - "Investigations into the biosynthesis and mode of action of the antimicrobial peptides epilancin 15X and sublancin"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 14, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • TBA

  FINAL DEFENSE, Matthew Chan, "Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Transport in Neurons"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

• • 8:30 am
    
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Emily Tonogai, UIUC, Final Defense, "Identifying the Basis for Anticancer Synergy with PAC-1, with Applications to Meningioma"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 22, 2022

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Pu "Mason" Xue, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 4, 2022

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 161 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Tomas Ricciardulli, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, August 21, 2022

• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
    
  • Chicago - near McCormick Place - location TBD

  ACS Chicago - Chemistry at UIUC Alumni & Friends Reception

  Save the date for our return to an in-person alumni and friends reception in conjunction with the ACS National Meetings. More details coming soon!

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, August 25, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture: Merck Rep: Dr. Dipannita Kalyani, "Accelerating Drug Discovery: Innovations in Catalysis and High-Throughput Experimentation"

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

  Merck Lecture: Professor Josep Cornella, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 'Bismuth Redox Catalysis'

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • NL 350M

  FINAL DEFENSE, Reshmi Dani, UIUC, TBD

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

  Fuson Student Talks: Kristen Muñoz, "Development of a Narrow-spectrum Antibiotic Selective for Gram-negative Bacteria"; Marko Nesic, "Overcoming Undesired Atropisomerism Towards the Synthesis of Darobactin"; Yunyan Sun, "Mechanically Triggered Carbon Monoxide Release with Turn-On Aggregation-Induced Emission: From Mechanism to Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • CLSL B-102

  Physical Chemistry Dissertation Award Seminar, Mr. Sohang Kundu, UIUC, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 1, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Bryan R. Goldsmith, University of Michigan (Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 2, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 144

  Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Hee Sun Han (UIUC) "Nano- and microscale technologies for systems biology"

  • Lecture

Thursday, September 8, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Dr. Jacob Spendelow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Kenis)

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

  BMS Lecture: BMS rep: Dr. Andrew Degnan: "Title: TBD"

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

  BMS Lecture: Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Netz Arroyo, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Title: Electrochemical Aptamer-based Sensors for Real-time Molecular Monitoring in the Body

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 12, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture: Amgen rep: Dr. Andrew Parsons, "Title: TBD"

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

  Amgen Lecture: Professor Don Hilvert, ETH Zurich, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Andrea Hernandez Garcia (Nair)

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

  Zac Dewald (Kalsotra)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 15, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Ryan Chiechi, NC State University, (Schroeder)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 19, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture, Professor Scott J. Miller, Yale University, "Title: TBD"

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

  C. S. Marvel Lecture, Prof. Scott J. Miller, Yale University, "Title: TBD"

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of CLSL.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture, Professor Scott J. Miller, Yale University, "Title: TBD"

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

  C. S. Marvel Lecture, Prof. Scott J. Miller, Yale University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Heather Liu (Stadtmueller)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 22, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Samuel W. Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado Boulder

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

  Professor Hening Lin, Cornell University. "Protein acylation-deacylation cycles regulate signaling pathways in cancer and inflammation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Govindjee Fellow: Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab)

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

  Recny Fellow: Santanu Ghosh (Shapiro lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 29, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michelle O'Malley, University of California Santa Barbara (Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 30, 2022

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Udayan Apte, The University of Kansas, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 3, 2022

• • 7:00 pm
    
  • CLSL B102

  Bailar Lecture: Professor Greg Robinson, University of Georgia, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Chem Annex 1024

  Bailar Lecture: Professor Greg Robinson, University of Georgia, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 6, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Chris Paolucci, University of Virginia (Flaherty)

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

  Eli Lilly Lecture: Eli Lilly rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"

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

  Eli Lilly Lecture: Professor Yoshiaki Nakao, Kyoto University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Issac Kim (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 13, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Tagbo Niepa, University of Pittsburgh

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

  Genentech Lecture: Genentech rep: Dr. Jason Zbieg, "Title: TBD"

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 14, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Graduate and Alumni Awards Ceremony"

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, October 15, 2022

• • All Day
    
  • Grange Grove

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Alumni and Friends Homecoming Tailgate"

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 17, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, University of Michigan, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Kritika mehta (Zhang lab)

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

  Lainie Liang (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 20, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: Dr. Ryan Phelan, "Development of High-Throughput Experimentation for Biocatalytic Reaction Development"

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 22, 2022

• • 8:30 am
    
  • TBD

  Senter Symposium of Frontiers in Organic Chemistry, speakers: Prof. Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology, Prof. Ryan Shenvi, Scripps Research Institute, Prof. Paul Chirik, Princeton University, Prof. Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Samson Jenekhe, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 24, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of CLSL.

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

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

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

  R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Stella Ekaputri (Burke lab)

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

  TJ OH (Zhang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 27, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. A. Shoji Hall, Johns Hopkins University (Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 28, 2022

• 

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

  Gottleib Lecture presented by the Biotechnology Center: Prof. David Craik

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Delia Milliron, The University of Texas at Austin (Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Huaxun Fan (Zhang lab)

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

  Sonya Kumar Bharathkar (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 3, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University (Rogers)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 5, 2022

• • All Day
    
  • Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

  Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 7, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Janssen Lecture: Janssen rep: TBD

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

  Janssen Lecture: Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Che yang (Zhao lab)

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

  Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 10, 2022

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Philippe Sautet, UCLA (Mironenko)

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

  Professor Zachary K. Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 14, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture, 3M rep tbd, "Title: TBD"

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Mashiat Chowdhury (Jin lab)

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

  Shukun Yang (Silverman lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Chris Hawk (Jin lab)

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

  Yannan Tian (Huang lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 1, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • TBD

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

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 9, 2022

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  18th Annual Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium, Daniel Nomura, University of California, Berkeley, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 19, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Professor Peter Mahaffy, The King's University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Krishna Narayanan (Procko lab)

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

  Yanheng Chen (Chen lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab)

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

  Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 16, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Adrian Keatinge-Clay, The University at Texas at Austin, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab)

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

  Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab)

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

  Mat sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 6, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Arthur Zou (Leckband lab)

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

  JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Tsapatsis, Johns Hopkins University (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab)

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

  Nick Baker (Kalsotra lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 6, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Professor Sara Sawyer, University of Colorado, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Doherty, University of California Santa Barbara, (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo lab)

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

  Jackson Scholar Yuwei Pan (Zhao lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 14, 2023

• • All Day
    
  • Illini Union Ballroom

  CHBE/OXE Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Other

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • To be determined

  2023 Nelson J. Leonard Lecture in the School of Chemical Sciences: Dr. Hiro Suga

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo lab)

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

  Yiquan Wang (Wu lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 20, 2023

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah (Su)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 116 RAL

  Chi Zhang (Fratti lab)

  • Seminar/Symposium