UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00   8:00 p.m.
  • Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

  CHBE 121 Poster Session

  Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.

  • Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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  • 3:30 pm
  • I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center

  Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics

  "The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 321 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"

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

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."

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

  'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogels for Drug Release Applications in Wound Healing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

  "Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 - 5:45 pm
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Joel Roberts, Final Defense, UIUC, "Towards Stimuli Responsive Molecules for Cancer Drug Delivery and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology

  Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • 164 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • 1027 Lincoln Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"

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

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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  • 9:30 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 am
  • 433 RAL

  Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics,  neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

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  • 9:30 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface

  Wade Zeno, PhD Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California "Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"

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

  Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "TBA:

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

  Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "TBA"

  Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 219 Gregory Hall

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

  "Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 1:00 pm
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it

  Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  An Introduction to the LSM 980

  "An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"

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

  Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "How FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, Induces Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

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  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  The Science and Practice of Team Science: Panel and Reception

  Panel, 12:00-1:00pm ​180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Medical Sciences Bldg 274

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk

  Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon

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

  Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "Mechanism of ATP-dependent phosphonate ester formation"

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

  Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University "TBA"

  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

  • 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, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"

  • Lecture