Physics - CPLC Calendar

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

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 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

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

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

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
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  • 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
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  • 1:00 pm
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

  • 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

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 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

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 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
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  • 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

Friday, April 18, 2025

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  • 11:30 am
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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
• • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
  • Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

  CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack D'Amelio , UIUC, "Capturing Crystallinity over Length and Time Scales"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 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

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 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
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  • 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

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

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

  • 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

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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

  CANCELLED Lunch with CNRG: Generative AI

  "Generative AI" Chris Panumpabi, CNRG Conference & Events Audio/Visual Specialist

  • 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