Seminars of Interest

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lynn Loo, Princeton University, "Making Smart Windows Smarter: Symbiotic Pairing of Near-UV Solar Cells with Electrochromic Windows for Visible Light + Heat Management in Architectural Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Payel Mondal (Zhang lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 3, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Michael Lee, UIUC, "CRISPR-Based Approaches for Directed Evolution"

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 4, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Room 144

  CPLC Seminar: Mikhail Tikhonov (Washington University) "Modeling the interplay between plastic tradeoffs and evolution in changing environments"

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00
    
  • B102 CLSL

  15th Annual Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium, Toni Kutchan, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, title "Sustainable production of plant derived pharmaceuticals"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 7, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Andy Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Mechanism Driven Approaches Facilitate the Development of Transition Metal Mediated Methods"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Alyssa DeLucia, UIUC, "Single-Molecule Magnets"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Daniel Hu, UIUC, "Recent progress in first-row luminescent d6 complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Matthew Bock, UIUC, "Stereoablative Enantioconvergent Catalysis"

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Imran Rahman (van der Donk lab) - Biosynthesis and Mechanism of Action of Enterococcal Cytolysin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 10, 2019

• • 9:30 am
    
  • RAL 171

  Kaili Zhang, UIUC, “Striking while the iron is hot: The femtosecond M-edge approach to the photodynamics of iron(II) complexes”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Kelly Schultz, Lehigh University, "Characterizing the Evolution of Gel Scaffolds Using Passive Microrheology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Yu Huang, University of Californa - Los Angeles, "From extended surface to high-performing catalysts - synthetic design at nanoscale"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 11, 2019

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Raquel Lieberman (Georgia Institute of Technology), "How does a protein’s structure spell the difference between health and disease? Structure and misfolding of glaucoma-associated myocilin"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Third Floor Atrium, Natural History Building

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Awards Reception

  The event will recognize recipients of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Awards and graduate students who have won fellowships. 4 p.m.: Ceremony 5 p.m.: Reception

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Sophie McClain, UIUC, "Cobalt Corroles as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Yiwei Liu, UIUC, "Biological lanthanide: The unexpected elements of life"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Nicholas Angello, UIUC, "Halogen Bonding Catalysis"

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Dr. Kristin Finch, Pennsylvania State University, "From Bench to Boardroom: Making the Transition from Chemist to Academic Administrator”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Quan Lam (Lu lab) - “Tuning the Secondary Coordination Sphere of an Iron-Sulfur Cluster in Artificial Sulfite Reductase”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Savanna Sharum (Zhang lab) - Temporal Inhibition of Activity by Optogenetic Control of MAPK Phosphatase 3.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 17, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, UIUC, "DNA Tetrahedra for the Delivery of Anti-Cancer Agents"

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Ou Chen, Brown University, "Self-assembly of anisotropic nanocrystals from periodic superlattices to aperiodic quasicrystals"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 18, 2019

• • 8:00 am
    

  ChBE Graduate Research Symposium

  The Graduate Research Symposium allows graduate students to present their work in the form of either a poster or an oral presentation. Research areas include a range of topics. Judges are alumni from industry and academia.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Loomis 144

  CPLC Seminar: Ting Lu (UIUC) - "Bottom-up Assembly of Microbial Communities: Modeling, Analysis and Engineering"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
    
  • 170 Noyes Lab, Reception / 217 Noyes Lab, Panel Discussion

  Alumni Career Panel: Chemistry & Beyond

  Join us on October 18 to hear Illinois Chemistry alumni discuss their experience and careers in medicinal chemistry, biomedical venture capital, entrepreneurship, science journalism, and defense technology.

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Catherine (Katie) Brady, UIUC, Title: "Recent Advances in Wearable Electrochemical Biosensors for Real-Time Health Monitoring"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Khoi Nguyen (Nikki) Hoang, UIUC, Title: "Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for 2D materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 19, 2019

• • 9:00 am
    
  • Grange Grove, just west of Memorial Stadium

  ChBE Alumni & Friends Homecoming Tailgate

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 21, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zurich, "Advances in Catalysis"

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich, "Advances in Catalysis"

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zurich, "Surprises and Discoveries in Chemistry and Biology with Natural Products"

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich, "Surprises and Discoveries in Chemistry and Biology with Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• • 10:00 am
    
  • RAL 171

  Minjeong Shin, UIUC, "Development and Characterization of Next Generation Batteries"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102

  Physical Chemistry Dissertation Awardee Dr. Daniel Dumett Torres, "Density Functional Theory Studies of Novel Condensed Matter Phases"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Andrew Buechler (Martinis lab) - Human colon cell “socialization” induced by small extracellular phosphonucleotides

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Sushant Bangru (Kalsotra lab) - "Single Cell transcriptomics reveal distinct fetal like cellular states during murine liver regeneration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 24, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Emily Desormeaux, UIUC, "The Roles of Gangliosides in Human-Pathogen Interactions"

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory, reception follows in north RAL Atrium

  Samuel W. Parr Lecture in Chemical Engineering, Prof. Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan, "Engineering Entropy in Colloidal Matter"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 25, 2019

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

  Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Brian Kuhlman (University of North Carolina), "Computer-based Design and Stabilization of Protein Switches and Complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Loomis 144

  CPLC Seminar: Martha Gillette (UIUC), " The Clock that Time Us: Dynamics in brain metabolism and sleep"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Sanja Pudar, UIUC, Title: "Exploring Förster/Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) for Analysis of Macromolecular Interactions."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Yuanya (Yana) Zhao, UIUC, Title: "The Scent of Disease: Detection of Volatiles with Artificial Olfactory Sensors for Cancer Diagnosis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 28, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, "How Nature Fertilizes the Earth: The Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase"

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, "How Nature Fertilizes the Earth: The Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase""

  Reception immediately following in 'A' Atrium of CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Greg Bowman, Washington Universty, title "Protein dynamics for precision medicine"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Jenelle Weaver, UIUC, "The f-Block Metals in Radiotherapy and Imaging: Tuning Size Selectivity of Expanded Macrocycles"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: Nicolas Capra, UIUC, "Secondary Sphere Effects on Metal Hydride Oxidations."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Antonio LaPorte, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  CHEM 535 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Max Baymiller (Martinis lab) - "A tissue-specific splice variant which separates the catalytic and cell signaling functions of human leucyl-tRNA synthetase"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Nikita Modi (Chen lab) -

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 31, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Dinh Nguyen, UIUC, "Strategies to Improve Membrane Permeability of Peptide Drugs"

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Roseanna Zia, Stanford University, '"Phase Mechanics" of Arrested Colloidal Gels: A New Paradigm for Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions in Soft Matter'

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 585 Literature Seminar: Francis Alcorn, UIUC, "Nanostructured Materials for Radiative Cooling Textiles"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  CHEM 585 Literature Seminar: Stanley Bram, UIUC, "Genetic Materials, and the Means by Which Humans can Systematically Repattern Life"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Squire Booker, The Pennsylvania State University, title "New Insights into Radical-Dependent Methylation Reactions"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 1, 2019

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. William Metcalf (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Energy conservation in methanogenic Archaea"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

  Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture: Professor Zhenan Bao, Stanford University

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

  Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture: Professor Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, "Skin Inspired Electronics Applications in Robotics and Medical Devices"

  Reception immediately following in the Atrium of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

  • Lecture