MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 11/3/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

Time: 12:30 pm 11/3/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/4/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

Time: 12:00 pm 11/5/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."

Time: 4:00 pm 11/5/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "Elucidating the molecular mechanism of CAVE anti-phage system"

Time: 4:30 pm 11/5/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Tanveer Singh (Chung Lab), UIUC, "The Role of ApoE4 in Hyperactive brains and Alzheimer's disease", Grad student Lara Kockaya, (Nelson Lab) "Delineating the Role of MEF2A/2C and NF-kB in the Anti-Cancer Activity of Macrophage Expressed ABCA1"

Time: 11:00 am 11/6/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Microbial messengers in pregnancy: how commensals and pathogens shape the fetal brain"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/6/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/11/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Developing a novel mouse model for studying chronic metabolic dysfunction and alcohol associated liver disease (MetALD)"

Time: 4:00 pm 11/12/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "“Elucidating the molecular basis of cardiac mitochondria and bioenergetic defects in myotonic dystrophy type I”

Time: 4:30 pm 11/12/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Kendall Nettles, University of Florida, "Structure and function of steroid receptors revealed by chemical biology and machine learning approaches"

Time: 11:00 am 11/13/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology

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Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/13/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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POSTPONED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

Time: 12:00 pm 11/14/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 11/17/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/18/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

Time: 10:00 am 11/19/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

Time: 12:00 pm 11/19/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "Repurposing an FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, to Enable Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

Time: 4:00 pm 11/19/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - “Exploring the antiviral functions and engineering potential of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A”

Time: 4:30 pm 11/19/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) "The targeting mechanism and function of postsynaptic Kv7/KCNQ channels at excitatory synapses" & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "Epigenetic cofactor ASXL1: a link to congenital hypopituitarism"

Time: 11:00 am 11/20/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Health and Kinesiology/UIUC -- "From Fermentation to Function: Harnessing Microbial Amino Acid Metabolism in Fermented Foods to Enhance Human Immunity"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/20/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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