College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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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

Thursday, January 16, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Juliana Hofstatter Azambuja, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh-Mayo Clinic-Rochester, "Reprogramming the Brain Tumor Microenvironment: A Path to Novel Therapies"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 17, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:30 am
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
PChem Faculty Candidate: Dr. Ulrich Lorenz, EPFL, "Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Thesis Defense: Laura Suttenfield/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

- 11:15 am 5:00 PM
- B102 CLSL
Materials Seminar - Dr. Monica Ohnsorg, University of Colorado Boulder, “Bottlebrush Polymers to Deliver Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Support 3D Cell Culture”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Michael Schappe, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School "TBA"

Department of Cell Biology
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Materials Seminar - Prof. Jia Niu, Boston College, “Advancing Precision Biomacromolecules and Mimetics: Synthetic and Evolutionary Strategies”,
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 23, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nannan Lu, Ph.D., Stanford University, "TBA"

Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: Dr. Nathan Bennett, AbbVie, "Development of a Scalable Route for the Drug-Linker of Immunology ADC ABBV-154"
- 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

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 108
Book Discussion and Lunch: “Unsettling: The EI Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism and the US-Mexico Border”

Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
- Lecture

Friday, January 31, 2025

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

The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
- Informational