School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

"Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities" Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director for Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Seminar/Symposium

Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.

4:00 pm 3/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"

4:00 pm 3/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"

9:00 am 3/13/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar: Dr. Vipendra Kumar, UIUC (Tsai Lab), " Exploring the therapeutic potential of mGluR7 in Fragile X syndrome"

11:00 am 3/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"

12:00 pm 3/14/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

No Seminar March 18, 2025 - UIUC SPRING BREAK (March 15-23, 2025)

4:00 pm 3/18/2025

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab

12:00 pm 3/24/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

CANCELLED What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

12:00 pm 3/25/2025

180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

Sabrina C. Agarwal, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/25/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health

4:00 pm 3/25/2025

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky

12:00 pm 3/26/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

12:00 pm 3/26/2025

ACES HERITAGE ROOM

"Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides" Surangi W. Punyasena, Professor - Plant Biology Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Sr. Research Software Engineer - Supercomputing Applications; Shu Kong

Seminar/Symposium

Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "The cartilaginous fish Immunoglobulin M provides insights into polymeric antibody assembly and evolution"

4:00 pm 3/26/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Characterization of Antibodies Against Influenza H3N2 Hemagglutinin Stem."

4:00 pm 3/26/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "Neural Systems that Maintain Body Weight by Activating Tissue Thermogenesis"

11:00 am 3/27/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/27/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."

10:00 am 3/28/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal/Li Lab

Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

CANCELED: Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amie Boal, Penn State University, "The Periodic Table of Ribonucleotide Reductases"

"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong

Lunch with the Core - Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures

Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "A Small Molecule That Targets Oncogene mRNA Stability & Kills Uterine Cancer Cells"

Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Exploring the role of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A in anti-viral immune responses."

MIP Seminar: Dr. Denise Okafor, Ph.D., Penn State University, "Allosteric mechanisms of transcriptional control in FXR"

Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab

Journal Club for Dr. Gavis

Journal Club for Dr. Gavis

Expanding the Functional Proteome

Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab

"Microglia regulating brain functions in development and degeneration," by Dr. Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Software and Data Analysis in the IGB Core Facilities

Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.

Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"

Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"

MIP Seminar: Dr. Vipendra Kumar, UIUC (Tsai Lab), " Exploring the therapeutic potential of mGluR7 in Fragile X syndrome"

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"

Spring Vacation Begins

No Seminar March 18, 2025 - UIUC SPRING BREAK (March 15-23, 2025)

Instruction resumes

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab

CANCELLED What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab

"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health

Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky

Lunch with the Core - Decoding 12 million years of Amazonian plant diversity using zero-shot segmentation and classification of fossil pollen on microscope slides

Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "The cartilaginous fish Immunoglobulin M provides insights into polymeric antibody assembly and evolution"

Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Characterization of Antibodies Against Influenza H3N2 Hemagglutinin Stem."

MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "Neural Systems that Maintain Body Weight by Activating Tissue Thermogenesis"

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"

Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."