Seminars of Interest

Sunday, March 28, 2021

- 5:00 pm
UIUC Chemistry Celebrates Women's History Month: Documentary Discussion with Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird
Join us for a Q&A discussion of the documentary, Women Untold, with two of the creators, Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird. This event will be held on March 30th at 5:00 PM CDT. Please watch the documentary before the event and come with questions for the creators.
- Film Screening

Monday, March 29, 2021

- 2:00 pm
Kris Benke, UIUC, "Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Dithiolate Coordination Complexes" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09)
Kai Gui, UIUC, "Advances in On-DNA Chemistry to Expand DNA Encoded Libraries"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
UIUC Chemistry Celebrates Women's History Month: Documentary Discussion with Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird
Join us for a Q&A discussion of the documentary, Women Untold, with two of the creators, Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird. This event will be held on March 30th at 5:00 PM CDT. Please watch the documentary before the event and come with questions for the creators.
- Film Screening

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

- 2:00 pm
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Reid Van Lehn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Molecular and Data-Centric Modeling of the Nano-Bio Interface" (host: Prof. Charles Sing)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81430726372?pwd=TjMvWCtuYTBIUWs2K2VHUTFCMjVWQT09 Meeting ID: 814 3072 6372 - Password: 960456
Ms. Maria A. Philip Final Defense Title: Enabling Safe and Stable Cycling of Lithium Metal Batteries Using Advanced Electrolytes and Interfaces
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://go.illinois.edu/ProfBlochSeminar
Professor Eric Bloch, University of Delaware, "Design and Synthesis of Highly Porous Coordination Cages"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09)
Jason Cournoyer, UIUC, "Mapping the Chemical Landscape of Prebiotic Genetic Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
UIUC Chemistry Celebrates Women's History Month: Documentary Discussion with Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird
Join us for a Q&A discussion of the documentary, Women Untold, with two of the creators, Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird. This event will be held on March 30th at 5:00 PM CDT. Please watch the documentary before the event and come with questions for the creators.
- Film Screening

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

- 2:00 pm
Prof. Kristie Koski, University of California - Davis, "Chemically Tunable 2D Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM - see department for link
Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Adrika Raybarman (Huang lab) - Investigating the Roles of RtcB Proteins in Bacteria
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM - see department for link
Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab) - “A Novel Regulatory Role of Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase in Promoting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Growth”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 5:30 pm
UIUC Chemistry Celebrates Women's History Month: Faculty Panel
UIUC Chemistry Celebrates Women's History Month: Faculty Panel A panel of three chemists, Dr. Catherine J. Murphy (UIUC), Dr. Lisa Olshansky (UIUC), and Dr. Quinetta D. Shelby (DePaul University), will discuss working in the field of chemistry in 2021, reflect on the challenges women chemists faced in the past, and share what they would like to see in the future for wom
- Other

Thursday, April 1, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87392779917?pwd=enJpRGJsTm1MQS9Lb1dwR29NdEROZz09
Michael Mulligan, UIUC, "Emerging Strategies for Targeting Mammalian RNA with Small Molecules"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Stephanie Chen, UIUC, "ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE ELECTROREDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO VALUE ADDED CHEMICALS" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88167150758?pwd=a2tYMmg2SWxLcEhITEhscmFSSVZHQT09
Edzna Garcia, Final Defense, UIUC, "SINGLE-CHAIN POLYMERIC SYSTEMS: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND APPLICATIONS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Alexander Horn, “Investigations Into the Biphasic Seeded Emulsion Polymerization in a Continuous Tubular Reactor”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Gavin Donley, "The Yielding Transition in Soft Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
Alexander Gomez, UIUC, "Recent Developments in the Multicomponent Petasis Reaction"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 2, 2021

- 10:00 am
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89502178771?pwd=NUd1VHlGVVZtTXZXMFRQUldDcGhJQT09
Chengtian Shen, Final Defense, UIUC, "Molecular design of precise ionic polymer networks for fundamental structure-property-relationships and energy-related applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
FINAL DEFENSE, Ms. Yu-Tong Connie Hong, "Functional Particles for Controlled Release and Cell Surface Engineering"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83249529381?pwd=bSs5T0FmRU5BQTAyTHZrcGUxcWdOZz09 Meeting ID: 832 4952 9381 Password: 853394
Professor Charles McCrory, University of Michigan, Title: The Electrochemical Conversion of C0₂to C0 with Polymer-Encapsulated Co Catalysts: Modulating Activity and Selectivity by Controlling the Catalyst’s Coordination Environment
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 5, 2021

- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
Yunyan Sun, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Cascade Metathesis Polymerization"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

- 1:00 pm
Ruixian Zhang, UIUC, "Investigation of Alternative Battery Systems Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://go.illinois.edu/ProfBarnesSeminar
Professor Jonathan Barnes, Washington University in St. Louis, "Supramolecular Polymers and Crosslinkers to Control Structure, Properties, and Performance in Polymer Networks and Nanomaterials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
Chelsea Swartchick, UIUC, "Recent Advances of the Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder Reaction in Benzyne Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

- 11:00 am
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Dinesh Kumar, "Shape dynamics of lipid vesicles in flow using automated fluidic control"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Ajit Vikram, "Continuous Flow Synthesis of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Towards Autonomous Experimentation for Accelerated Material Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Che Yang (Zhao lab) - Investigating the genome engineering tools in heterochromatin regions of mammalian cell
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Chunyu Wu (van der Donk lab) - "Investigation into the Mechanism of Action of Sublancin 168"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
- Zoom
LAS Alumni Career Panel - Featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod Henderson
Don't miss the LAS Alumni Career Panel "Science and Medicine Careers" on April 7 featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod A. Henderson, an Instructional Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Register for this virtual event today.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 8, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87392779917?pwd=enJpRGJsTm1MQS9Lb1dwR29NdEROZz09
Joel Roberts, UIUC, "Chemical Manipulation of Macrophage Phenotypes to Induce Tissue Regeneration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey Gray, Johns Hopkins University, "Predicting Protein Complex Structures with Biophysical and Deep Learning Approaches" (host: Prof. Diwakar Shukla)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://go.illinois.edu/ProfWhittakerBrooksSeminar
Professor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah, "Designer Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Coherent Charge and Spin Transfer"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 9, 2021

- 12:00 - 3:00 pm
- Virtual
Annual OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/ and sign in with your @illinois.edu address
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Katrina Forest (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology), “Chemical Biology of Freshwater Rhodopsin and a Novel Photoheterotrophy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- virtual
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Thursday, April 15, 2021

- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86161285146?pwd=Z0hxV1VFYW1Xdkd5UlYzNDJyUWppZz09
Merck Lecture, Dr. Greg Hughes, Merck, “The Development of a Biocatalytic Cascade for Manufacturing Islatravir”
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 16, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/ and sign in with your @illinois.edu address
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry) "Design and Evolution of Macrocyclic Organo-Peptide Hybrids for Selective Modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Yujue Wang, UIUC, "Development of Amyloid Beta Binding Bifunctional Chelators for Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Via ZOOM
CPLC/iPoLS Seminar: "Dynamic Bioengineered Hydrogels to Study Brain Tumor Biology"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88266975214?pwd=ZFZIcmVUU3JQUWdVbDQrUXhKd3NIdz09 Meeting ID: 882 6697 5214 Password: 513130
Professor Kevin Tucker, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Title: Research at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81299287412?pwd=eTNzZzNkS1ZtbU1BRFViNjlZV3h5dz09
David Dennis, Final Defense, UIUC, "DEAROMATIVE HYDROBORATION-ENABLED SYNTHESIS OF IDARUBICINONE AND SYNTHESIS OF MINOR CANNABINOIDS AND THEIR METABOLITES"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
Junrou Huang, UIUC, "Recyclable Polymer with Linear and Cyclic Structure Synthesized by Ring-opening Polymerization of γ-Butyrolactone"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Friday, April 23, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/ and sign in with your @illinois.edu address
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Kou-San Ju (The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology), “TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 26, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- ZOOM - see student for link
FINAL DEFENSE - Tianjiong Yao (Silverman lab) - "DNAzymes for amine and peptide lysine acylation".
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

- 2:00 pm
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Eun Ji Chung, University of Southern California, "Exploiting the Body's Barriers for Nanomedicine Targeting" (host: Prof. Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
Aliza Yazdani, UIUC, Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Isaac Kim (Martinis lab) -
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ZOOM
Qianqiao Heather Liu (Stadtmueller lab) -
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Friday, April 30, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/ and sign in with your @illinois.edu address
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Gavin Williams (North Carolina State University, Department of Chemistry), “TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium