Seminars of Interest

Monday, October 27, 2025

Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar: "From Poison to Messenger: Cyanide As An Emerging Gasotransmitter"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar: "Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Potential for Broad Spectrum Antivirals through Host-Targeting Therapeutics

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (host: CHBE/IGB/BioE) "Bionic Human Organoids & Fundamental Mechanisms of Disease"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab 419
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, "Do Sweat It: Recent Developments In Non-Invasive Sweat Sensors for Biomolecule Detection”, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, “Fingerprints: Who, What, and now When”, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 3, 2025

BMS talk w/BMS rep (for grad students & postdocs only), Dr. Deborah S. Mortensen, Bristol Myers Squibb, "Ligand Directed Degradation and Discovery of BMS-986458, a Potential First-in-Class BCL6 Degrader"

11:35 am - 12:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, "Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, MOF-based Photosensitizers as Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy, Husna Azhakath Valappil

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, Revisiting Zintl Chemistry: The Contemporary Shape of a Traditional Field, Akra Ghosh

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "Elucidating the molecular mechanism of CAVE anti-phage system"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineered Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editors"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar: "Small-Molecule Based Cellular Reprogramming to Control Stem Cell Fate"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Brittany Prempin "Secondary Structure Effects on Molecular Conductance of Peptoid Oligomers" Advisors: Jeffrey Moore and Charles Schroeder

1:30 pm

RAL 171
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Dynamic Covalent Chemistry in Polymer Science to Improve Recyclability for Plastics", Elizabeth Vrana

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium
"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 8, 2025

East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Illini Union
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm

W109 Turner Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Zhengyi Bian "From Purification, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Carbon Dots to Synthesis Modeling and AI-assisted Spectral Data Extraction" Advisor: Stephan Link

3:30 pm

Everett Lab 3100
- Seminar/Symposium
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Developing a novel mouse model for studying chronic metabolic dysfunction and alcohol associated liver disease (MetALD)"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "“Elucidating the molecular basis of cardiac mitochondria and bioenergetic defects in myotonic dystrophy type I”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Forever Chemicals”, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Soft by Nature, Smart by Design: Tuning the Properties of PEDOT:PSS- based Conductive Hydrogels for Future Bioelectronics", Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Matthew Locket: "Old dog(s), new tricks: Electrografted multilayer films for immobilizing CO2 reduction catalysts on silicon photoelectrodes"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
POSTPONED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Nick Polizzi, Harvard University, "Understanding and Manipulating Immune Modulation by the Microbiome"

1:30 - 5:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, "Innovative Techniques in Mixed Gas Detection: Exploring Multi-Resonant and Dual Differential Strategies for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy", Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Redox Flexibility in Bismuth Catalysis", Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Synthetic Approaches Towards High-Entropy Intermetallic Nanoparticles", Jon Haidet

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions, Part 2: Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Reactions"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology: "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to Sn1 and Sn2 Reactions, Part II: Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Reactions"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "Repurposing an FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, to Enable Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - “Exploring the antiviral functions and engineering potential of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Autonomously Reinforced Double Network Hydrogels: Making Strides Towards Artificial Tissues", Faith Kern

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Probing Mobility Factors in Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning Predictive Analysis", Justine You

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University, "Making it Stick: Applications of Covalent Activity Based Probes"

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium