MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

5th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

Time: 11:00 am 4/1/2022
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

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Poster with photos of the three guest speakers

Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Symposium

Time: 11:00 am 1pm 4/1/2022
Location: B102 CLSL

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FINAL DEFENSE - Dayu Zhang (Martinis lab) - Exogenous Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibits Mouse Skeletal Muscle Differentiation

Time: 11:00 am 4/4/2022

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Minxue Liu / KV Prasanth Lab: "Determine the role of monoallelically expressed single nucleolus-localized ncRNAs (SNULs)"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/4/2022
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL and via Zoom

KV Prasanth Lab

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Baobin Li (UC Berkeley), "Mechanisms of pH sensory of the two-pore domain K+channel TASK2"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/5/2022

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CDB Alumni Seminar: Dr. Yejing Ge, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, “Functional dissection of stem cell lineage plasticity in the skin epithelia”

Time: 12:00 pm 4/6/2022
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab) - Designing Soluble Decoy Receptors Against Epstein-Barr Virus Using Host CD21 Receptor

Time: 4:00 pm 4/6/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab) - “Initiation of Biotin Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/6/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Microbiology Thesis Defense: D'Feau Lieu/Blanke Lab

Time: 9:00 am 4/7/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Dr. Victor Uteshev, Epigen Biosciences, "Therapeutic Modalities of Alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Ischemic Stroke AND Beyond"

Time: 11:00 am 4/7/2022

Vice President for Discovery Sciences

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FINAL DEFENSE: Quan Lam (Lu Lab) - “Design and Structure-Activity Studies of Artificial Heme-Copper Oxidases.”

Time: 11:00 am 4/7/2022

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NEW -- Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Seth Childers, University of Pittsburgh -- "Biomolecular condensates as a compartmentalization strategy in bacteria"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/7/2022

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Microbiology Thesis Defense: S. M. Nayeemul Bari/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

Time: 10:00 am 4/8/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vinayak Agarwal (Georgia Tech), "Looking back and building forward: natural product biosynthesis"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/8/2022

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Microbiology Student Seminar - New Student Presentations I

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/12/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jürgen Knoblich, Austrian Academy of Sciences, "A cerebral organoid model for Tuberous sclerosis identifies human-specific aspects of brain development"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/13/2022

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

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Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab) - “Exploring the Diverse Functions of LanCLs in Mammalian Systems”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/13/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab) - “Cryo-EM structure of teleost IgM core provides insights into polymeric immunoglobulin assembly”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/13/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Dr. Charles Bourque, McGill University, Canada, "The circadian clock and neural circuits maintaining body fluid homeostasis"

Time: 11:00 am 4/14/2022

Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Medicine

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karl Thompson, Howard University -- "Small protein effectors of an alternative sigma factor in S. aureus"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/14/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Ailong Ke (Cornell University), "From High-resolution Mechanisms to Genome Editing Applications for Type I CRISPR-Cas (CRISPR-Cas3)"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/15/2022

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Microbiology Thesis Defense: Katie Frye/Kehl-Fie Lab

Time: 2:00 pm 4/18/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Aleksandra Skrajna (UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy), "Universal Principles of Nucleosome Recognition"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/19/2022

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Microbiology Student Seminar - New Student Presentations II

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/19/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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CDB Career Development Seminar. Diana Yates, Research Editor, Life Sciences, News Bureau, UIUC: "The University News Office: Writing Science News Releases for a Living"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/20/2022

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JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab) - FGD3, a Likely Mediator of Anticancer Drug Induced Necrotic Cell Death

Time: 4:00 pm 4/20/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab) - “Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Fc Receptor-Like Molecules”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/20/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Dr. Ji Miao, Harvard Medical School, "Molecular mechanisms linking insulin resistance and metabolic diseases""

Time: 11:00 am 4/21/2022

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Melanie Blokesch, EPFL -- "Molecular peculiarities of 7th pandemic cholera strains"

Time: 11:00 am 12:00 pm 4/21/2022

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Joint Biochemistry/MIP Seminar: Prof. Robert V. (Rob) Stahelin (Purdue University), "Lipid-dependent assembly and budding of emerging pathogens"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/22/2022
Location: B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Joint Biochemistry/MIP Seminar: Prof. Robert V. (Rob) Stahelin (Purdue University), "Lipid-dependent assembly and budding of emerging pathogens"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/22/2022
Location: B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Nkrumah Grant, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/26/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) - "Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Probe Protein-Lipid Interactions"

Time: 8:30 am 4/27/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar- Early Career Inclusive Excellence Seminar: Dr. Jessica Butts, Baylor College of Medicine: "Investigating Caudal CNS Development – From Dish to Embryo"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/27/2022
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Christopher Hawk (Jin lab) - “Roles of conserved DRG factors in maintaining efficient translation in eukaryotes”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/27/2022
Location: 116 RAL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Manuel Amieva, Stanford University -- "Playing hide and seek with the host- How Helicobacter pylori’s hideout near the stem cell niche controls persistence and disease"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/28/2022
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Chu-Young Kim (The University of Texas at El Paso), "Using cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography in tandem to decipher enzyme mechanisms"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/29/2022

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