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- 11:00 am 4/3/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/3/2025
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogels for Drug Release Applications in Wound Healing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/3/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, "Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2-Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/3/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/4/2025
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Alex Weiss, Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo - Topic: Non-Academic Career
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/4/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/4/2025
- 313 Mumford Hall
Jonathan Maturano, Final Defense, UIUC, "Chemical Synthesis in the Campaign Against Gram-Negative Pathogens"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/4/2025
- 2049 Natural History Building
Final Defense | A Phenology-guided Deep Learning Framework for Avanced Soybean Prediction in the Americas
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/4/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "Integrated Electrochemical Sensors for On-body and At-home Measurements"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 4/7/2025
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/7/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Joel Roberts, Final Defense, UIUC, "Towards Stimuli Responsive Molecules for Cancer Drug Delivery and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/7/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Harnessing Radical Polarity: Remote C-H Functionalization by H-Atom Transfer Mechanisms"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:15 pm 4/7/2025
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
What Now: Focus on Women and Gender in the New Era
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 164 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/8/2025
- 1306 Everitt Lab
Statistics Seminar - Renyuan Xu (NYU) - "Generative Diffusion Models: Foundations and Financial Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/8/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Harnessing Carbene Polarity: Unconventional Carbonyl Reactivity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/9/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
- 2049 Natural History Building
Final Defense | A cyberGIS-ABM framework for scalable spatial agent-based modeling of emergency evacuation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am 4/10/2025
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/10/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/10/2025
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/10/2025
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/10/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Andy Thomas, Texas A&M University, "Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/10/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/11/2025
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Yuki Haba, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am 4/11/2025
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 4/11/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/11/2025
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street
"Solidarity with Sudan After Revolt: Reimagining Society, Surviving Vengeance", April 11
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/11/2025
- 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
GGIS Colloquium | Eco-Cities Beyond Failure: Reimagining the Everyday Socio-Natural Ecologies in Urban China

In this colloquium, Dr. Chiu-Shee will be presenting her ongoing field work on the ideals and practices of "the ecological city" and stimulate discussion and new ideas as she proceeds with her research.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/11/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Tom Soh, Stanford University, "Real-Time Biosensor Technology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:15 pm 4/14/2025
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials: PCET stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics for molecules and materials: from slow to ultrafast"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/15/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/15/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/15/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/17/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 219 Gregory Hall
Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Dr. Derek Dalton, Genentech, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/17/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Matthew D. Shoulders, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/18/2025
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Fuller Lab Talks - Topic: Summer Research
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/18/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 2:00 pm 4/18/2025
- Illini Union Room 314 B
Kang Lecture 2025 | Seminar with Professors Dali Yang and Yujeong Yang | Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/22/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/22/2025
- 1306 Everitt Lab
Statistics Seminar - Shuangning Li (Chicago Booth)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/22/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/23/2025
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/24/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/24/2025
- 1306 Everitt Lab
Statistics Seminar - Grace Chiu (Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/24/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/24/2025
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/25/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/25/2025
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
Materials Chemistry Seminar, Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/25/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/25/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/28/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Dr. Daniel Pippel, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm 4/28/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/29/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/29/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/30/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 5/1/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University "TBA"

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 5/1/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 5/1/2025
- 1306 Everitt Lab
Statistics Seminar - Peng Ding (UC Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 5/1/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 10:00 am 5/2/2025
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Cáceres Lab Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5/2/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 5/6/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 5/6/2025
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 5/6/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 5/7/2025
- Beckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269
Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 5/7/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 5/9/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 5/12/2025
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 5/13/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm 6/5/2025
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 6/12/2025
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 8/28/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 11/10/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium