Seminars of Interest

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Janssen Lecture: Janssen rep: Dr. Justin Diccianni "High-Throughput Experimentation to Accelerate Modality-Agnostic Drug Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Janssen Lecture: Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, "Chemputers, Chemputation, and Chemputability"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Leif Hammarstrom, Uppsala Universitet, “Molecular Mechanisms of Artificial Photosynthesis” (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Seth Klaine, "Synthetic Applications of Transient Strained Cyclic Alkynes and Allenes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 10:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Charles Bou-Nader (Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), “RNA structure recognition at the virus-host interface”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- B102 CLSL
Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- TBD
Marko Nesic, UIUC, Final Defense, "Studies Towards the Synthesis of Bielschowskysin and Total Synthesis of Darobactin A"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Matt Jones, Rice University, "Developing a Mechanistic Picture of the Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) - "Combining simulation with experiment to probe role of point mutants in glycogen storage disease"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 2, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Elisia Meyle, UIUC, "Strategies for In Situ Lipid Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
Fuson Student Talks: Amanda East, "Synthesis of Silicon-substituted Hemicyanines for Multimodal SWIR Imaging", David Ryffel, "Total Synthesis of Darobactin A", Yue Yu, "Biosynthesis of 3-Thia-α-amino Acids on a Carrier Peptide"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "Charge Transport and Conformational Gating in Metalloenzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Paola Mera (UIUC) "It’s all about communication: how bacteria coordinate their life cycles"
- Lecture

Monday, March 6, 2023

- 1:15 pm
- B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Zohaib Siddiqi, Final Defense, UIUC, "Unique Applications of Dearomative Strategies from Small Molecules to Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- CLSL A133
FINAL DEFENSE: Lawrence Salvati, UIUC, "How Explosive Grains Interact During Shock Ignition", Advisor: Dana Dlott
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Room 314A RAL
FINAL DEFENSE: Kevin Gill (Procko lab) - "A study of viral entry proteins and receptors using deep mutagenesis".
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Saurja DasGupta (Harvard Medical School), "RNA: Catalyzing Life’s Origins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Merck Lecture: Merck Rep: Dr. Manuel de Lera Ruiz, "Academia/Industry Collaboration to Discover Novel Antimalarial Agents: Deciphering an Unknown Mechanism & Inventing Clinical Candidate MK-7602"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Merck Lecture: Professor Masayuki Inoue, University of Tokyo, "Radical-Based Approach for Synthesis of Complex Natural Products"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

- 3:30 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Sylvia M. Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry: Dr. Jackie Thompson, P&G, "From Mechanistic Investigations to Complex Interactions: A Perspective from a Lucky Outsider"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Peter Rossky, Rice University, "Molecular Scenarios for Experimental Observations: Hunting with Theory and Simulation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Arthur Zou (Leckband lab) - Analysis of E-cadherin interaction with EGFR in mechanotransduction
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab) - FGD3, a Likely Mediator of Anticancer Drug Induced Necrotic Cell Death
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 9, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
C.S. Marvel Postdoctoral Symposium: Dr. Xiaolin Liu, "Inherently Charged Conjugated Ladder-Type Molecules: Extended Polaron Delocalization and High Conductance", Dr. Benjamin Suslick, "Rapid Synthesis of Linear Oligo Dicyclopentadiene Characterized by Advanced Mass-Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 10, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 16, 2023

- 9:00 am
- NL 353
FINAL DEFENSE, Nicolas Capra, UIUC, "Osmium Alkane Complexes" Advisor: Greg Girolami
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 17, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Amy E. Herr, Berkeley University of California Title: Unlocking disease biomarkers through precision microfluidic design
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 20, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Aldrich Lecture: Professor Richmond Sarpong, University of California Berkeley, "Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products"
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Tsapatsis, Johns Hopkins University (Su), "Manufacturing of Metal-Organic Framework Membranes "
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Thursday, March 23, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of Non-Hallucinogenic Serotonin-2A Receptor Agonists Inspired by Psychedelics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), “New Molecular Insights into Mechanisms of Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Cancer Development”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Eric Morgan (UIUC) "Science Communication and the Importance of Culture"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
Professor Parastoo Hashemi, Imperial College in London, Title: Serotonin as a unifying marker of antidepressant efficacy; an in vivo fast scan cyclic voltammetry study
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, March 26, 2023

- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- Indianapolis (see RSVP link for location)
ACS Indianapolis - Chemistry at UIUC Alumni & Friends Reception

Please join us for a networking reception in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis.
- Reception/Open House

Monday, March 27, 2023

- 10:00 am
- B126 CLSL
FINAL DEFENSE: Qi Zou (Cronan lab) - "Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis in Enterococcus faecalis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab) - The Uniqueness of Soluble Yeast SNARE protein Vam7
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Nick Baker (Kalsotra lab) - Temporally controlled expression of ESRP2 in single cells coordinates the metabolic and proliferative activities of regenerating livers
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Seminar of Special Interest: Professor Jeff Martell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Enzyme-Mimicking Catalysts for Chemical Biology and Sustainable Synthesis"
- Lecture

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 10:00 am
- 612 Institute for Genomic Biology
Raymond Sarksian, Final Defense, UIUC, "Stereochemical Control in Lanthipeptide Biosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "Electron Cryotomography of Cells: Progress and Potential"
- Seminar/Symposium