College of Liberal Arts & SciencesSchool of Molecular & Cellular Biology

School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal/Li Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CANCELED: Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amie Boal, Penn State University, "The Periodic Table of Ribonucleotide Reductases"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures

"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "A Small Molecule That Targets Oncogene mRNA Stability & Kills Uterine Cancer Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm
- 116 RAL
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Exploring the role of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A in anti-viral immune responses."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Denise Okafor, Ph.D., Penn State University, "Allosteric mechanisms of transcriptional control in FXR"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Journal Club for Dr. Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Journal Club for Dr. Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Expanding the Functional Proteome

Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Microglia regulating brain functions in development and degeneration," by Dr. Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities

"Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities" Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director for Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Vipendra Kumar, UIUC (Tsai Lab), " Exploring the therapeutic potential of mGluR7 in Fragile X syndrome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
No Seminar March 18, 2025 - UIUC SPRING BREAK (March 15-23, 2025)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

Sabrina C. Agarwal, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Characterization of Antibodies Against Influenza H3N2 Hemagglutinin Stem."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "The cartilaginous fish Immunoglobulin M provides insights into polymeric antibody assembly and evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "Neural Systems that Maintain Body Weight by Activating Tissue Thermogenesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
- Seminar/Symposium

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