Seminars of Interest

Monday, October 28, 2024

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Prof. Tobias Brixner, Universität Würzburg, "Space–Time-Resolved Sppectroscopy of Multi-Particle Interactions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Aldrich Lecture: Professor Nilay Hazari, Yale University, "Fundamental and Applied Studies of Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:00 - 10:00 pm
- San Diego Convention Center, Room 26 AB
ChBE Alumni and Friends Reception at AIChE
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Shiyu Zhang, Ohio State University, "Elucidating the Role of Unsymmetric Features in Bimetallic Active Sites" (I)
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Vojtech Vlcek, University of California Santa Barbara, "Towards Ab Initio Simulations of Driven and Non-equilibrium Systems Through Novel Theoretical and Numerical Approaches"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Flagellar rotation powers Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface departure in flow”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Modeling Antibody-Virus Coevolution with Multi-Modal AI to Advance Therapeutics and Vaccine Development"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 31, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Samantha Dye, UIUC, "Leveraging Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Biomarker Detection with Enhanced Molecular Sensitivity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
Dinh Nguyen, Final Defense, UIUC, "Post-Translational Modifications as a Route to New Chemistry and Useful Enzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 1, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Yang Yang (University of California - Santa Barbara), "New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Shravan Dommaraju, Final Defense, UIUC, "Algorithmic Discovery and Characterization of New Biosynthetic Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 2, 2024

- 8:00 am
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
36th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 4, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Jiachun Shi, "A time-resolved framework for structure-property-processing relations of polymeric systems using recovery rheology"
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago, "Nucleic Acid Chemical Labeling"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago, "Nucleic Acid Chemical Labeling"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
Susanna Barrett, Final Defense, UIUC, "Insights Into Rotaxane Formation Enable Cyclase Engineering For Lasso Peptide Diversification."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Chem 515 Literature Seminar: Arsha Choudhary, UIUC "Design Strategies for Earth-Abundant Metal Based Photo-redox Catalysts" (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Sevi Agiakloglou, UIUC, "PROTACs as Next Generation Degraders: The Development of ARV - 471 in ER+ Breast Cancer"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Ahmet Arda Turk, UIUC, "Elucidating the Ultrafast Nature of Molecular Fragmentation in Electron-Ionization Mass Spectrometry"
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Huihang Qiu, UIUC, "Advancing Polymer Network Characterization: Bridging Kinetics and Network Structure through Computational Methods"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jason Wu, UIUC, "Bayesian Optimization for Chemical Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Rapti Pal, UIUC, "Spinterface Theory for Chirality-Induced Spin-Selectivity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab) - "The Effects of Phosphoinositides on Vacuole Fusion and Ion Homeostasis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory 217
Recognizing Contributions to STEM: Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month
- Lecture

Thursday, November 7, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Suja Thakali, UIUC, "Development of Oral Therapeutics Targeting the GLP-1 Receptor"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Xiaofang Jiang, NIH, "Uncovering Microbial and Phage Enzymes through Genomic Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Chong Liu, University of Chicago, "Controlling Ions for Separation and Manufacturing" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: William Krueger, UIUC, "Homogenizing Heterogenous Catalysis: Synthetic Applications of Single Atom Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Andrew Rice, Final Defense, UIUC, "Post-Translational Modifications Catalyzed by RiPP and RiPP-Adjacent Enzymes."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Chem 515 Literature Seminars: Siddhartha Banerjee UIUC, "Boron-doped Acenes and Their Emissive Properties" Joshua Leung, UIUC, "Ligand Design in Au-carbene Systems for Catalytic Hydroamination" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Aksshay Regeni, UIUC, "Lifetime and Transport of Excitons in 2D transition Metal Dichalcogenides”"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Anna Debernardo, UIUC, "CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Anna Debernardo, UIUC, "Advances in Markov State Models in the Wake of Machine Learning"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Enguang Fu, UIUC, "Parametrization of Metabolic Kinetic Model Using Machine Learning Approach"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Maren Johnsen, UIUC, "Investigating Elemental Abundances in Interstellar Dust Using X-Ray Binaries"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) : "The 'Root' of Onion Center Rot"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 14, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Steven Cramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (host: Prof. Xiao Su) "Molecular Bioprocessing: Biophysics, Simulations and Expedited Process Development"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 15, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Jason McLellan - University of Texas - Austin: "Structure-based Vaccine Antigen Design"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 18, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley, "Supramolecular Assemblies as Artificial Enzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor F. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley, "Supramolecular Assemblies as Artificial Enzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana
GennisFest Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Adrija Dutta, UIUC, "Modeling Interatomic Potentials using an Equivariant Graph Neural Network"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Daniel McIntosh, UIUC, "Exploring Reaction Pathways Through the Artificial Force Induced Reaction Method"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Ellie Vandel, UIUC, "Impacts of Quantum Effects on Bird Migration: Circumventing electron-electron dipolar interactions in magnetoreception"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Zhengyi Bian, UIUC, "Single-Particle Spectroscopy of Lead-halide perovskite Nanocrystals: Probing Blinking Mechanism in Single Particle Level"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Friday, November 22, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yongsheng Shi (University of California-Irvine) - "The nuclear RNA degradation code"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 25, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor J. P. Gerdt, Indiana University, "Chemical Inhibition of Anti-Bacteriophage Immune Systems in Bacteria"
- Seminar/Symposium