School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

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"

11:00 am 11/6/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Tanveer Singh, Ph.D.

Seminar/Symposium

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

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/6/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Deciphering antibody sequences

12:00 pm 11/11/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”

Seminar/Symposium

"Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program

4:00 pm 11/11/2025

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Seminar/Symposium

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

4:00 pm 11/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm 11/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

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

11:00 am 11/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with CNRG: Web Hosting

12:00 pm 11/13/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing

Seminar/Symposium

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

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/13/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

12:00 pm 11/14/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium: Nick Polizzi, Harvard University, "Understanding and Manipulating Immune Modulation by the Microbiome"

1:30 - 5:00 pm 11/14/2025

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

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

12:00 pm 11/17/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

12:00 pm 11/18/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”

Seminar/Symposium

NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm 11/18/2025

Beckman Institute ATRIUM

Seminar/Symposium

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

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/18/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

10:00 am 11/19/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

Seminar/Symposium

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

12:00 pm 11/19/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman

12:00 pm 11/19/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Seminar/Symposium

Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm 11/19/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm 11/19/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Hongyu Zhao (Chung Lab) & Taylor McNeal (Raetzman Lab) "TBA"

11:00 am 11/20/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University, "Making it Stick: Applications of Covalent Activity Based Probes"

4:00 pm 11/20/2025

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Nutritional Sciences/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/20/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

NO SEMINAR: UIUC Thanksgiving Break

4:00 pm 11/25/2025

Beckman Institute ATRIUM

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

12:00 pm 12/1/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

12:30 pm 12/1/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

12:00 pm 12/2/2025

612 Conference Center

Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley “What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences”