School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Frank Schroeder, Cornell University: "Host Metabolism Balances Microbial Regulation of Bile Acid Signaling"

12:00 pm 4/1/2025

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder will give the IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics "The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution"

Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics

3:30 pm 4/1/2025

I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center

"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.

Seminar/Symposium

"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution," Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry

3:30 pm 4/1/2025

i Hotel and Conference Center

Seminar/Symposium

RESCHEDULED for Fall/Spring 2025-2026: Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

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

12:00 pm 4/2/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."

4:00 pm 4/2/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”

4:00 pm 4/2/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"

11:00 am 4/3/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

12:00 pm 4/3/2025

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

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"

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

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"

12:00 pm 4/4/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology

12:00 pm 4/8/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/8/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

"Engineering viruses for efficient and targeted gene delivery to the brain," by Min Jee Jang, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Faculty Affiliate, Neuroscience Program & Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm 4/8/2025

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth

12:00 pm 4/9/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"

4:00 pm 4/9/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"

9:30 am 4/10/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics, neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"

10:00 am 4/10/2025

433 RAL

Ceremony/Service

MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"

11:00 am 4/10/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.

1:00 pm 4/10/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "The hidden role of eosinophils during Bordetella spp. infections"

4:00 pm 4/10/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"

9:30 am 4/11/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Xi Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center, "Stress Management in Therapy-Resistant Cancers"

12:00 pm 4/11/2025

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface

12:00 pm 4/15/2025

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

Wade Zeno, PhD Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California "Exploring Intrinsic Disorder at the Protein-Lipid Interface"

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/15/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

NSP Graduate Student Only _ Meeting & Workshop

4:00 pm 4/15/2025

**Beckman Institute 2269**

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "Dynamics of a type of gene expression hot zone relative to nuclear speckles"

4:00 pm 4/16/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "Investigating altered neuronal excitability in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome"

11:00 am 4/17/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with CNRG: Data Management

12:00 pm 4/17/2025

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

"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”

1:00 pm 4/17/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/17/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Biochemistry Graduate Award Symposium poster

8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

11:30 am 4/18/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of D-Amino Acid Biosensing"

4:00 pm 4/18/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab

12:00 pm 4/21/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab

12:30 pm 4/21/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it

12:00 pm 4/22/2025

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

Jill Lens, PhD Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, College of Law; University of Iowa "Stillbirth: The Experience, and the Laws that Frame it"

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin: "Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology for a Sustainable Future"

2:00 pm 4/22/2025

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/22/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

"Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

4:00 pm 4/22/2025

**Beckman Institute 5602**

Seminar/Symposium

Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "How FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, Induces Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

4:00 pm 4/23/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "Inhibitory decline in recurrent neural networks: behavioral effects, clinical consequences, and potential therapies"

11:00 am 4/24/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

The Science and Practice of Team Science: Panel and Reception

12:00 - 2:00 pm 4/24/2025

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

Panel, 12:00-1:00pm 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave "The Science and Practice of Team Science" Stephen Fiore, PhD Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, University of Central Florida Melanie Bauer Grant Writing Manager, Nova Southeastern University Reception, 1:00-2:00pm Gatehouse Lobby, IGB Administration Building, 1206 West Gregory Drive

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "Shaping the Future Shapers"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/24/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Picture of Dr. Wayne Yokoyama. He has silver-frame glasses, short grey hair, and is wearing a dark suit with white, collared shirt and pattern tie.

Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”

4:00 pm 4/24/2025

Medical Sciences Bldg 274

Seminar/Symposium

Photo of Dr. Frank McCormick. He has short, blonde hair and is wearing dark blue, v-neck shirt.

Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"

12:00 pm 4/25/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh

3:00 pm 4/25/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab

12:00 pm 4/28/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk

12:00 pm 4/29/2025

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

Corrie Whisner, PhD College of Health Solutions; Arizona State University "From struggles to snuggles: Insights into sleep and gut microbiome development on infant growth and obesity risk"