Integrative Biology

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Daniel Schmehl, Science Fellow, Global Pollinator Safety Expert, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis - “Expanding beyond the requirements: Modernizing pesticide risk characterization for bee pollinators”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures

"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Maria Salas Fernandez, Iowa State University.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Edwin Lewis, University of Idaho, Group dynamics of parasitic worms: learning from the slithering herd
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cheng Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Tracy Lawson
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Alison Ravenscraft, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington - "Where do the insect gut microbiota come from? Patterns and implications of environmental symbiont acquisition in herbivorous insects"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Faculty deadline for reporting midterm grades for freshmen.
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Expanding the Functional Proteome

Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- All Day
POT A (1st 8 week) grade entry enabled for Instructors in Faculty Self-Service
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Boxuan Zhao, UIUC (MCB). "A Multiomic Toolbox for Brain Mapping: Technologies with Applications Across Biological Systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities

"Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities" Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director for Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Jacob Goheen, Iowa State University, A game of thorns: how plant defense shapes predator-prey interactions in African savannas
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- All Day
Deadline for GRAD to drop POT 1 course via Student Self-Service
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to drop POT 1 (full semester) course via Student Self-Service without grade of W
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to elect credit/no credit or change credit/no credit to regular grade basis in POT 1 (full semester) course
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to file intent to use Campus Grade Replacement option in a POT 1 course
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to remove incomplete grade from previous semester to prevent change to F grade
- Informational
- All Day
Deadline for UG to withdraw from Spring 2025 semester(drop all courses) without grade of W
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Final exam schedule posted to Office of Registrar website and Course Explorer
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
Coffee Hour
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other
- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Sunday, March 16, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Monday, March 17, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Thursday, March 20, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Friday, March 21, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Saturday, March 22, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Sunday, March 23, 2025

- All Day
Spring Break
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

Sabrina C. Agarwal, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago. "The mode and tempo of plant adaptation to contemporary agriculture”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Grace Tan, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Phenomics of epidermal patterning and water use efficiency in Setaria and Sorghum
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Elliott Zieman, Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University - "Implications of altered ecosystems for vector-borne pathogens"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 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
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX

"Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167
Plant Science Seminar Series: Sarah Lipps , UIUC (Crop Sciences) "Resistance to Gibberella Ear Rot in Maize: Potential mechanisms and breeding strategies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminars- Sean Ooi, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Characterization of soil moisture legacy control of nitrous oxide production vs. reduction dynamics in terrestrial soils
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
Deadline to withdraw from the university and receive the minimum 40% pro-rata refund if enrolled mainly in full semester classes
- Informational
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Alex Weiss, Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo - Topic: Non-Academic Career
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Room 1103
Plant Biology Colloquium - Dr. Don Ort
- Seminar/Symposium