School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

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”

10:00 am 3/1/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Awards Symposium

11:00 am 3/1/2023

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Haiting Ma, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

12:00 pm 3/1/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Cell-environment interactions during tissue maturation and disease

Seminar/Symposium

Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) - "Combining simulation with experiment to probe role of point mutants in glycogen storage disease"

4:00 pm 3/1/2023

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Making Resilient Science

5:30 pm 3/1/2023

Cafeteria & Company, 208 W Main St, Urbana

Jessica Brinkworth, PhD Assistant Professor of Anthropology "Making Resilient Science"

Social/Informal Event

Dr. Aijun Wang, UC Davis, "Engineering stem cells and extracellular components to promote tissue regeneration and restore function"

11:00 am 3/2/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Peggy Cotter, University of North Carolina -- "Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin: a phagocyte-specific toxin delivery system?"

4:00 pm 3/2/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Image of Dr. Chang Cui. She has black hair and is wearing a blue and white print blouse.

Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "Charge Transport and Conformational Gating in Metalloenzymes"

12:00 pm 3/3/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Tianchi Xin, Yale University, School of Medicine

12:00 pm 3/6/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration and oncogenesis by imaging live mice

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Kevin Gill (Procko lab) - "A study of viral entry proteins and receptors using deep mutagenesis".

2:00 pm 3/6/2023

Room 314A RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Image two hands representing connection of RNA between Chemistry and Biology

MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Saurja DasGupta (Harvard Medical School), "RNA: Catalyzing Life’s Origins"

2:00 pm 3/6/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Indigenizing Pharmacogenomics and Biomedical Research

12:00 pm 3/7/2023

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Katrina Claw, PhD Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine; University of Colorado "Indigenizing Pharmacogenomics and Biomedical Research"

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Kehl-Fie Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 3/7/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

"Tuning landscapes of the primate ventral stream," by Carlos R. Ponce, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

4:00 pm 3/7/2023

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Erin Jimenez, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH

12:00 pm 3/8/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Regulatory logic of hair cell regeneration

Seminar/Symposium

Computer services at the IGB

12:00 pm 3/8/2023

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Lunch with the Core "Computer services at the IGB" Dan Davidson, Director of Computer and Network Resource Group - IGB Topic: Computer Services Lunch will be provided

Seminar/Symposium

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

4:00 pm 3/8/2023

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Arthur Zou (Leckband lab) - Analysis of E-cadherin interaction with EGFR in mechanotransduction

4:00 pm 3/8/2023

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Angie Salles, University of Illinois Chicago, "Bats, Brains and Behavior"

11:00 am 3/9/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Yonatan Grad, Harvard University -- "From molecular mechanisms to policy: antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae""

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/9/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Photo of Prof. Neha Garg. She has dark-framed glasses and is smiling.

CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"

12:00 pm 3/10/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday Neuroscience Seminar - SPRING BREAK

All Day 3/14/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "Investigating the Role of Nuclear Myosins" Audrey Peng / Freeman Lab

12:00 - 12:30 pm 3/20/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "Muscle cell derived Ccl8 is a negative regulator of muscle regeneration" Allison Boss-Kennedy / Chen Lab

12:30 - 1:00 pm 3/20/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Image representing difference of Normal mRNA and defective mRNA. Normal has circular pathway; defective is one direction.

MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”

2:00 pm 3/20/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Mireille Farjo/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 3/21/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

"A cortical hierarchy and power-law principle for decision-making and discrimination of timing cues found in natural sounds," by Heather Read, Professor, Director Brain-Computer Interface Group. Departments of Psychological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering University of Connecticut

4:00 pm 3/21/2023

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Spatial Omics Initiative / Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity reading group

4:00 pm 3/21/2023

2410 Conference Room Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

GNDP is hosting a monthly reading group the 3rd Tuesday of each month on spatial transcriptomics this semester. The goal is to learn about this new technology, with a focus on how it can be applied to address new questions in brain and behavior. Please contact Jess Quicksall (jessicaq@illinois.edu) if you would like to attend, virtual/hybrid format.

Meeting

Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab) - "Characterization of Novel Glycocins and Glycosyltransferases”

4:00 pm 3/22/2023

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Chi Zhang (Fratti lab) - "The Role of Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) on the Homeostasis of Ion Transport on Yeast Vacuoles".

4:00 pm 3/22/2023

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Lori Zeltser, Columbia University, "Developing mouse models to study emotional eating and anxiety"

11:00 am 3/23/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology

Seminar/Symposium

IGB Lunchbox Series: Breaking Bread and Barriers: Addressing Health Disparities in the U.S.

12:00 pm 3/23/2023

Spice Box Cafe, 2nd Floor Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL, 61801

The IGB Lunchbox Series lectures are paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe. “Breaking Bread and Barriers: Addressing Health Disparities in the U.S.” Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer Food Science and Human Nutrition March 23, 2023, 12:00pm Buffet-style lunch opens at 11:45

Seminar/Symposium

Image from Dr. Keith T Wilson describing gastroenterology: H. pylori-infected patients and AOM presenting with gastritis or colitis

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), “New Molecular Insights into Mechanisms of Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Cancer Development”

12:00 pm 3/24/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Qi Zou (Cronan lab) - "Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis in Enterococcus faecalis"

10:00 am 3/27/2023

B126 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling working group

12:00 pm 3/27/2023

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) monthly working group facilitates the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods, covering such topics as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, biomolecular networks in space and time explored using single-cell biophysics, microbiome dynamics and methods for control, and cancer genomics.

Meeting

MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Adam Norris, Southern Methodist University

12:00 pm 3/27/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 3/28/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

"Development of Expert-level Classification of Seizures and Rhythmic and Periodic Patterns During EEG Interpretation," by Jimeng Sun, Professor, Computer Science and Health Innovation, Professor, Carle's Illinois College of Medicine

4:00 pm 3/28/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)

12:00 pm 3/29/2023

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)" Reza Rajabi Toustani, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine