College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Monday, November 27, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Tony Zhang, "Photoswitchable Ruthenium-Based Catalysis for Olefin Metathesis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Marcus Foston, Washington University in St. Louis, "In-situ Neutron Scattering of the Lignin Depolymerization" (host: Rao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Chem 515 Literature Seminar: David Freytag, UIUC "C—H Bond Activation with Artificial Metalloenzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy
"Constraining the Chemistry of Planet Formation in the Era of HST and JWST"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Yiannakis Lysandrou, "Replacing TNT: The Quest for a New Melt Castable Explosive"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Yutong "Gloria" Hou/Vanderpool Lab and Roy Rodriguez Carerro/Metcalf Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Meeting
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Michael Kiebler

How to study neuronal RNA granules - molecular machines that direct dendritic mRNA transport to synapses
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 2:30 pm
- CLSL B-102
PChem Literature Seminar: Shruti Iyer, "Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance from MALDI-TOF Mass Spectra with Machine Learning"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
PChem Literature Seminar: Omar Ghaleb, "'Mirrors' and Magnets: 'Interfering' with Ultracold Molecular Collisions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:20 - 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
- 300C
Undergraduate Studies Committee meeting
- Meeting

Thursday, November 30, 2023

- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- 1020 Lincoln Hall
History Department NCFDD Group
- Meeting
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Chem 585 Literature Seminars: Amrinder Bhuller, UIUC "Leveraging Electrodialysis for Ion Removal", Sayantaini Sur, UIUC "Recent Advances in Lithium Mediated Ammonia Synthesis", Imani Jones, UIUC "Magneto-Ionics: Magnetic Switching Via Ion Intercalation in Solid-state Battery Structures"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Blanca Barquera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- "Bacteroides fitness in the human gut: an energy metabolism perspective"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm
- Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
Daniel Cano -- Maya Q'anjob'al Poet
- Performance

Friday, December 1, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vincent Lee (University of Maryland), "Pseudomonas aeruginosa nucleotide signaling, RNA degradation and device-associated infections"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Colloquium with Luca Grillo
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Chem 515 Literature Seminars: Annie Hsu, UIUC “Ligand Field Effects on Electron Spin Relaxation in Molecular Qubits”,Harshit Jain, UIUC “Impacts of Geometric and Electronic Structure on Reactivity of Diiron Dinitrosyl Complexes”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy
Uncovering the Elusive Origin of Fast Radio Bursts and other Radio Transients
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Isabelle Lakis/Whitaker Lab and David Vereau Gorbitz/Heath-Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Sara Eslami, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigation of Lanthipeptides and their Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
FINAL DEFENSE: Kelly Gullett, "Activation of Small Oxygen-Containing Molecules by Bioinspired First Row Transition Metal Complexes" Advisor: Professor Alison Fout
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 5:00
- GH 213
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 7:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Interseminars | Dylan Rodríguez: “Against the Counterinsurgency Machine”
- Lecture

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Thursday, December 14, 2023

- 9:00 am
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Austin Weigle, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Selectivity Principles of Translocation Catalysis by Membrane Transporters"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 15, 2023

- 10:00 am
- Noyes Lab 217
FINAL DEFENSE: Daniel Hu, "Development of Organometallic Nickel Complexes with Oxygenase-type Reactivity”, Advisor: Professor Liviu Mirica
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 16, 2023

- 1:30 - 2:30 pm
- Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE Winter Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:30 - 4:30 pm
- University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
CHBE Winter Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House