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IEI Event Calendar

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Saturday, December 21, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Friday, January 3, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Alex Cusumano, University of California, Los Angeles, "Transition Metal-catalyzed Pericyclic and Photochemical Strategies for C–C Bond Construction"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 6, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Evert Njomen, Scripps Research, "Targeting the Undrugged Proteome with Small Molecules"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Carly Schissel, University of California, Berkeley, "Strategies to Discover, Design, and Synthesize Unnatural Bioactive Peptides"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 13, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 419 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Monday, January 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: Professor Michael C. Jewett, Stanford University, "Synthetic Biology for People and Planet Health"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Michael Strauss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Developing General Synthetic Methods Across Molecular Dimensions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Anastasiia Strakhova, "Benefits of Illegality: Clandestine Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe, 1870s-1914"
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- TBD
Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Marissa Lavagnino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prof. Shauna M. Paradine, University of Rochester, "Title - TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone
- Lecture

Monday, February 17, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Organic Faculty Candidate: Dr. Sophia Shevick, Harvard University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Lilly Lecture: Lilly rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Lilly Lecture: Professor Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Maxim Krupskiy, "'Foreign Agents' Legislation: Between Democratic Resilience and Weaponized Transparency"
- Lecture

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Amgen Lecture, Amgen rep: Dr. Heather Johnson, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Amgen Lecture w/Professor Jeffrey W. Bode, ETH Zurich, "Title: TDB"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 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

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Location TBA
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Alexis Peri
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Marvel/Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis) )
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Fuson Student Talks: speakers TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Novartis rep: TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Novartis Lecture: Professor Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan , (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Professor Andy Thomas, Texas A&M University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- TBD
J&J Innovative Medicine Lecture: J&J rep:TBD, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- TBD
J&J Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 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

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, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- 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 Spring 2025 Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

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