College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Monday, October 27, 2025

Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Icko Iben Jr. Series: The Fates of Stars Orbiting too Close to Massive Black Holes

3:45 - 4:45 pm

NCSA Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Colloquia: Dr. Michael Light

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

MIP Endowed C. Ladd Prosser Lecture: Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, "Understanding Energy Homeostasis, and its Impact on Obesity Pharmacotherapy"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar: "From Poison to Messenger: Cyanide As An Emerging Gasotransmitter"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar: "Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Potential for Broad Spectrum Antivirals through Host-Targeting Therapeutics

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (host: CHBE/IGB/BioE) "Bionic Human Organoids & Fundamental Mechanisms of Disease"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone, "Russia in World History: Updating the Long Telegram"

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
History Film Night: Oliver Stone's JFK

7:00 - 11:00 pm

213 Gregory Hall

Join the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta for a screening of the film JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) followed by a discussion.
- Film Screening

Friday, October 31, 2025

FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab 419
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, "Do Sweat It: Recent Developments In Non-Invasive Sweat Sensors for Biomolecule Detection”, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, “Fingerprints: Who, What, and now When”, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
- Conference/Workshop
Wassaja and Other Famous Native Americans in Illinois

2:00 pm

Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

Join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David R. M. Beck at the Urbana Free Library to hear the fascinating stories of Native Americans living in Illinois in the early 20th century.
- Lecture
Spurlock Museum Book Club: A Thousand Acres

4:00 - 5:00 pm

The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Meeting

Monday, November 3, 2025

BMS talk w/BMS rep (for grad students & postdocs only), Dr. Deborah S. Mortensen, Bristol Myers Squibb, "Ligand Directed Degradation and Discovery of BMS-986458, a Potential First-in-Class BCL6 Degrader"

11:35 am - 12:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, "Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

4:00 pm

Illini Union, Room 210

Erik McDuffie ( African American Studies and History) will discuss his book The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Part of the Story & Place event series.
- Lecture
Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

4:00 pm

Illini Union, Room 210

This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
- Other

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, MOF-based Photosensitizers as Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy, Husna Azhakath Valappil

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, Revisiting Zintl Chemistry: The Contemporary Shape of a Traditional Field, Akra Ghosh

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dinner and conversation with professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck

6:30 - 8:00 pm

ISR 94 A/B

Students can join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck for dinner and conversation at ISR.
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 6, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "The Role of ApoE4 in Hyperactive brains and Alzheimer's disease", Grad student Lara Kockaya, (Nelson Lab) "Delineating the Role of MEF2A/2C and NF-kB in the Anti-Cancer Activity of Macrophage Expressed ABCA1"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineered Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editors"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar: "Small-Molecule Based Cellular Reprogramming to Control Stem Cell Fate"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Brittany Prempin "Secondary Structure Effects on Molecular Conductance of Peptoid Oligomers" Advisors: Jeffrey Moore and Charles Schroeder

1:30 pm

RAL 171
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Polymer Science to Improve Recyclability for Plastics", Elizabeth Vrana

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Microbial messengers in pregnancy: how commensals and pathogens shape the fetal brain"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Destination Champaign - The Roots and Routes of Farm Aid

4:30 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

This talk will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.
- Lecture
The Legal Value of Written Records for Jews and Christians in Medieval Provence

5:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
- Lecture

Friday, November 7, 2025

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Fethi Keles, "Unsettled and Resettled: Experiences of Bosnian Diaspora in the United States."

12:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

1:00 - 1:50 pm

157 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Heavy Elements in Nature: From Waste Management to Precision Medicine", Professor Rebecca Abergel, University of California, Berkeley

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
The World of Webb, the Cosmic Circle of Life, and seeing through the Eyes of Einstein

3:45 - 4:45 pm

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Colloquia: Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr

12:00 pm

3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
- Lecture
TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm

W109 Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Celebrate New Books in Medieval Studies by Mukhtar Ali, Mauro Nobili, and Gian Piero Persiani

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, 210

Join us for a festive reception to celebrate three new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
- Festival/Celebration

Thursday, November 13, 2025

MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Forever Chemicals”, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Soft by Nature, Smart by Design: Tuning the Properties of PEDOT:PSS- based Conductive Hydrogels for Future Bioelectronics", Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: George Gasyna, "A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature"

12:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Lecture
Literature Seminar, "Innovative Techniques in Mixed Gas Detection: Exploring Multi-Resonant and Dual Differential Strategies for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy", Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Redox Flexibility in Bismuth Catalysis", Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Synthetic Approaches Toward High-Entropy Metallic Nanoparticles for Catalytic Applications", Jon Haidet

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology: "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

11:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Faith Kern

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Justine You

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium