Seminars of Interest

Monday, October 1, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSEB)
Professor Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology, "Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticle Medicines: How Size can Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Yisong (Alex) Guo, Carnegie Mellon University, "Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies of Catalytically Versatile Non-Heme Iron Enzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Xinyu Kong (Leckband) - Mechanotransduction in vascular endothelium.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yuanyuan Hu (Cronan) - A New Bacterial Pathway for Synthesis of the Biotin Pimeloyl Moiety
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Friday, October 5, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Alex Schrader, UIUC, Title: "Characterization of crude oil samples using MALDI mass Spectrometry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Eduardo De La Toba, UIUC, Title: "Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Pesticides"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

- 12:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Prof. Myles Brown, Harvard University, title "Essential Genes and Cistromes in Hormone-Dependent Cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565, Prof. Randy Snurr, Northwestern University, "Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Gerald Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Dye-Sensitization for the Production of Electrical Power and Chemical Fuels from Sunlight"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Thursday, October 11, 2018

- 12:05 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Ms. Kristen Muñoz, UIUC, "Drug Discovery and Development in the Era of Automation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565, Prof. Thanos Panagiotopoulos, "Activities, Solubilities, and Nucleation Rates of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Paul Voyles, University of Wisconsin, "Solving Structurally Complex Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 12, 2018

- All Day
- CLSL-A Atrium, LH, NL
CHBE GSAC Research Symposium 2018
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Nicholas Conrad (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), "Posttranscriptional control of metabolism by METTL16: The SAMe thing is not the same old thing "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- B124 CLSL
FINAL DEFENSE: SWaminath Srinivas (Cronan lab) - “DETERMINATION OF FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS INTERMEDIATES IN ESCHERICHIA COLI AND BACILLUS SUBTILIS”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Kendrich Hatfield, UIUC, Title: "From Nanomedicine to Energy: The Wide Realm of NMR Diffusion Measurements"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Anne Marie Esposito, UIUC, Title: "In-situ Detection of Technetium-99 Species in Nuclear Waste Facilities"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 13, 2018

- 12:30 pm
- Grange Grove, just west of Memorial Stadium
ChBE Alumni & Friends Homecoming Tailgate
Please join us for the 2018 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 15, 2018

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- CLSL-A Atrium
Coffee and Donuts with Prof. Ted Brown
Students, faculty, staff and alumni from Chemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology are invited to catch up with Prof. Ted Brown over coffee and donuts before the annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science and the Confronting the Challenges of Climate Change symposium.
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Auditorium
BECKMAN-BROWN LECTURE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE - Prof. Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University, "Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming"
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

- 8:15 am - 5:30 pm
- Beckman Institute Auditorium
Confronting the Challenges of Climate Change, a symposium honoring Theodore "Ted" Brown
A symposium on the topic of energy and the environment in honor of Theodore "Ted" Brown, the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Westcott Bioscience Fellow Heather Young (Procko lab) - “Gain of Function Mutations in the Serotonin Transporter Inform Mechanism of Transport."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 18, 2018

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Mr. Justin Miller, UIUC, "Crops, Weeds, and Natural Products – New Compounds for the Other Resistance Problem"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565, Prof. Sangtae Kim, Purdue University, "Microhydrodynamics of Ellipsoidal Particles"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Libai Huang, Purdue University, "Ultrafast Dynamic Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 19, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Shannon Murphy, UIUC, Title: "Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols for Pollution Monitoring"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 20, 2018

- 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Spurlock Museum
15th Biennial Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry Speakers: Prof. Matthew S. Sigman, University of Utah; Prof. Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University; Prof. Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Prof. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley; Prof. Floyd Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 22, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Lab
Chem 545 Lit Seminar, Mr. Sohang Kundu, UIUC, "The Role of Electron Correlation in the Interpretation of Hund's Multiplicity Rule"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Lab
Chem 545 Lit Seminar, Mr. Xiuyi (Terry) Qin, UIUC, "Computational Study on Concerted Ion Migration Mechanism in Super-Ion Conductors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA's Most Popular Classes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA's Most Popular Classes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565, Prof. Jennifer Maynard, University of Texas, Austin, "Engineering Next Generation Therapeutics to Combat Infectious Diseases"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 25, 2018

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Ms. Lindsay Chatkewitz, UIUC, "Harnessing Nature for Induced Protein Degradation via PROTACs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Conner Dykstra, UIUC, "Magnetoplasmonic devices for applications in biosensing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Eric Thornburg, UIUC, "Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4) Heterostructures for Applications in Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 26, 2018

- 2:00 pm
- 144 Loomis
CPLC Seminar: "Single molecule measurements of topography and force reveal mechanisms underlying general secretory system activity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Dr. Junqi Li, University of California, Berkeley, "From Automated Small Molecule Synthesis to Understanding Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysis"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Ryan Cornelius, UIUC, Title: "Measuring Absolute Nanoparticle Concentration via Surface Plasmon Microscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Ms. Cindy Lee, UIUC, Title: "AFM-IR for the Analysis of Biomolecules"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 29, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Amie Boal, Penn State University, "Watching Metalloenzymes at Work"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Professor Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, "Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Therapy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Professor Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, "Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Therapy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Mr. Sven Kaster, UIUC, Title "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 1, 2018

- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
Mr. Lam Vo, UIUC, "Image-based Single Cell Profiling and Applications in Chemical Genetics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Christopher Bandas-Rivera, UIUC, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Kenneth Madsen, UIUC, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Noah Burns, Stanford University, "Selective Halogenation and the Study of Noncanonical Lipids"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 2, 2018

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Guramrit Singh (The Ohio State University), "How mRNP composition determines mRNA fate?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 144 Loomis
CPLC Seminar: "Molecular mechanisms of size control in budding yeast"
- Seminar/Symposium