Daehyuk's 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

- 1:00 pm
- Beckman 4269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Hannah Kimmel
- Other
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- i Hotel and Conference Center
**"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution," Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry**
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
RESCHEDULED for Fall/Spring 2025-2026: Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
- 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
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Speaker: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 4269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Will Newman
- Other
- 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

- 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

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am
- 157 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Howard Weatherspoon , "NUCLEATION AND GROWTH: MODELS FOR FACETED AND LAYERED MATERIALS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am 3:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 Loomis Lab 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana IL
Physics Van 30th Anniversary
- Ceremony/Service

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
- 1:30 pm
- Everitt 1103
Final Defense - PhD - Shraddha Shirguppe
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
Lecture by Chulhong Kim, Ph.D.
- Lecture

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
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Engineering viruses for efficient and targeted gene delivery to the brain," by Min Jee Jang, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Faculty Affiliate, Neuroscience Program & Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 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
- Beckman 2269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Jaena Park
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 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
- 10:00 am
- 319 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"
- 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

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 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
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani
- 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
- Beckman Institute 1005
NSP Graduate Student Only _ Meeting & Workshop
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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): "Dynamics of a type of gene expression hot zone relative to nuclear speckles"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 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

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 1005 Beckman Institute
Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic

This workshop sponsored by Beckman Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and Cancer Center at Illinois will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty and become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab
- 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
- **Beckman Institute 5602**
"Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core: 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
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- 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

- 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

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 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

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab
- 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

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Xin Yu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- 105 Noyes Laboratory
SCS Academic Advising and Career Services Open House
- Reception/Open House
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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