Plant Biology

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

- 3:00 pm
SIB Kick Off
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- W109 - Turner Hall
"Accelerating Crop Improvement using Predictive Plant Breeding" with Dr. Jessica Rutkoski
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core: Introduction to the Core Facilities

"Introduction to the Core Facilities" - All Core Facilities Staff Members, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium CLSL- B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Michael Dreslik, UIUC, Lessons Learned from a 26–Year Ecological Study on the Eastern Massasauga
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 5, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jason Peters, University of Wisconsin - Madison -- " Fighting Antibiotic Resistance and Climate Change with Bacterial Genetics!"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 6, 2024

- 9:00 - 9:50 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Discussion: EEB Graduate Student Handbook
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, September 7, 2024

- 2:00 - 6:00 pm
- Grange Grove 1416 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820
Game Day Genomics

Come find the IGB at Grange Grove, the official tailgate party area, before all University of Illinois home football games. Come out to see the game and catch the IGB doing hands-on science at Grange Grove beforehand. We will be tossing bean bags to pollinate a giant sunflower and learning whether different food items are wind or animal pollinated. ILL! INI!
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, September 9, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Tugrul Giray, Professor, University of Puerto Rico - "Beeology: Understanding Individual and Social Phenotypes"

Faculty Host: Gene Robinson
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Crystal Lake Park Lake House
2024 Entomology Alumni/New Student Potluck Picnic

Please bring a dish to share. RSVP at https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1644869.
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Learning the super power of animal diversity one cell type at a time: regeneration, symbiosis, and evolution

Bo Wang, PhD Department of Bioengineering; Stanford University "Learning the super power of animal diversity one cell type at a time: regeneration, symbiosis, and evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

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

Rafael Jaime Gonzalez Ricon, Graduate Research Assistant - Animal Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- W109 - Turner Hall
"Progress on Managing Nitrogen for Corn" with Dr. Emerson Nafziger
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium - B102 CLSL
PEEC Seminars - PEEC Graduate Student Meeting with Dr. Angela Kent
- Meeting

Thursday, September 12, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nadia Roan, University of California - San Francisco -- "Host responses to HIV and SARS-CoV-2: a Tale of Two Persistent Viruses?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 13, 2024

- 9:00 - 9:50 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Robin Warne, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, September 14, 2024

- 7:00 - 11:00 am
- Grange Grove 1416 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820
Game Day Genomics

Come find the IGB at Grange Grove, the official tailgate party area, before all University of Illinois home football games. Come out to see the game and catch the IGB doing hands-on science at Grange Grove beforehand. We will be learning about cool bat facts in preparation for our upcoming Bat Fest on September 28th in collaboration with UPD, INHS, and NRES. ILL! INI!
- Social/Informal Event
- 1:00 - 5:00 pm
- Riggs Brewery
Heroes Wanted!
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, September 16, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Baldwyn Torto, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa - "Strategies to manage selected invasive pests of Solanaceae crops"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects

Noah Whiteman, PhD Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley "Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with the Core - Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy

"Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy" - Minxue Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, Beckman Institute - Cell & Developmental Biology Instrument: MINFLUX
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium CLSL- B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Karen Terio, UIUC, Wildlife Pathology Research: Dead animals tell tales
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 19, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Bender, Southern Illinois University -- "Anaerobic methionine biosynthesis: roles of a dual acting sRNA/riboswitch in sulfate reducing Desulfovibrio and nitrogenase-like enzymes in phototrophic heliobacteria"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Natural History Building 2083 and 2nd Floor Hub
Plant Biology Welcome
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, September 20, 2024

- 9:00 - 9:50 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 23, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Michael Skvarla, Assistant Research Professor, PennState Extension - "Deer keds and community science: how research meets extension in the Penn State Insect ID Lab"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium CLSL- B102
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Taiye Winful, UIUC, Stress, Inflammation, and Wellness: An Interdisciplinary Biocultural Examination of Health in a Nigerian Context
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 26, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Amanda Oglesby, University of Maryland -- "It’s a Small RNA World: Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 27, 2024

- 9:00 - 9:50 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Eric Gulson-Castillo, University of Michigan - Topic: Bird Movement
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 30, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Entomology Colloquium - Clayton Traylor, Temple University, Philadelphia - "Community responses of saproxylic beetles and bees to forest conditions in the southeastern Piedmont"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology

Valkiria Durán-Narucki, PhD Lecturer & Environmental Psychologist; College of Staten Island, City University of New York "The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology" IGB Seminar - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 3, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Thomas, University of Wisconsin - Madison -- "Investigating Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Enzymology Using Directed Evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 4, 2024

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Zoi Rapti, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois - Topic: Bio-Math
- Seminar/Symposium