UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Don't miss the LAS Alumni Career Panel "Science and Medicine Careers" on April 7 featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod A. Henderson, an Instructional Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Register for this virtual event today.

Seminar/Symposium

11:00 am 12:00 pm 4/8/2021

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Asaf Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- "The Extracellular Contractilie Injection System: a novel microbial toxin delivery system"

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME* To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

Seminar/Symposium

11:00 am 4/8/2021

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Seminar: Professor Scott L. Friedman, Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai, Title: “Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatic Fibrosis and Prospects for Translation”

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/8/2021

Joel Roberts, UIUC, "Chemical Manipulation of Macrophage Phenotypes to Induce Tissue Regeneration"

Seminar/Symposium

2:00 pm 4/8/2021

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey Gray, Johns Hopkins University, "Predicting Protein Complex Structures with Biophysical and Deep Learning Approaches" (host: Prof. Diwakar Shukla)

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/9/2021

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Katrina Forest (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology), “Chemical Biology of Freshwater Rhodopsin and a Novel Photoheterotrophy"

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 - 3:00 pm 4/9/2021

Annual OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 4/9/2021

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Awards Ceremony

Ceremony/Service

12:00 pm 4/13/2021

NAGPRA, Research, and Collaborative Partnerships with Native Nations

IGB DEI Seminar Series Jenny L. Davis Associate Professor of Anthropology & American Indian Studies University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "NAGPRA, Research, and Collaborative Partnerships with Native Nations"

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/14/2021

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Serena Dudek, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Dr. Shannon Farris, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. "Distinct transcriptional signatures determine hippocampal synaptic plasticity phenotypes."

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 4/14/2021

Nikita Modi (Chen lab) - Brd4 Modulates Innate Immunity by glycolytic pathway upon H. pylori infection

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 4/14/2021

Shukun Yang (Silverman lab) -"DNAzymes for amine alkylation by reductive amination"

Seminar/Symposium

11:00 am 4/15/2021

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Seminar: Daniela Quail, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, McGill University, Title: “Obesity-associated inflammation and cancer metastasis”

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/15/2021

SMART Goals for Personal Development Plans

IGB Postdoc Association Presents Cherise Marks Assistant Director, Illinois Leadership Center “SMART Goals for Personal Development Plans”

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/15/2021

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephan Gruber, University of Lausanne -- "Chromosome organization and segregation in bacteria: A central role for the unusual cofactor CTP""

To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/16/2021

Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry) "Design and Evolution of Macrocyclic Organo-Peptide Hybrids for Selective Modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions"

Seminar/Symposium

2:00 pm 4/16/2021

CPLC/iPoLS Seminar: "Dynamic Bioengineered Hydrogels to Study Brain Tumor Biology"

Lecture

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/20/2021

Mikashi Award Impact Presentations

Please join us for the Mikashi Award Impact Presentations, presented by the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society. We will hear final presentations from Mikashi awardees Dr. Brian Cunningham and Dr. Paul Hergenrother, who will share how Mikashi Award funding supported their work on cancer research.

Lecture

12:00 pm 4/21/2021

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Yukiko Yamashita, HHMI Investigator, Whitehead Institute Member, Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Function of junk: satellite DNA in chromosome organization and speciation."

Seminar/Symposium

2:00 pm 4/21/2021

Prof. Sara Mason, University of Iowa, "Building Bridges between Computational Chemistry and Experiment at the Nanoscale: Materials for Energy and the Environment"

Seminar/Symposium

3:30 - 6:00 pm 4/21/2021

Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Seminar/Symposium

11:00 am 4/22/2021

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Seminar: Ming-Hu Han, Ph.D., Title: "KCNQ/Kv7 Channels in Stress Resilience: from the Preclinical Model to the Patient"

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/22/2021

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Taj Azarian, University of Central Florida -- "Meaningful use of pathogen genomic data: Tracking bacterial mobile elements using published sequences"

To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/23/2021

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Kou-San Ju (The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology), “Genomics-Accelerated Discovery and Biosynthesis of Phosphonic Acid Natural Products"

Seminar/Symposium

1:00 pm 4/26/2021

FINAL DEFENSE - Tianjiong Yao (Silverman lab) - "DNAzymes for amine and peptide lysine acylation".

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 pm 4/27/2021

IGB Seminar - Genomic Ecology of Global Change

Xuemin (Sam) Wang, PhD University of Missouri, St. Louis, Desmond Lee Professor of Biology; Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis

Seminar/Symposium

2:00 pm 4/27/2021

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Eun Ji Chung, University of Southern California, "Exploiting the Body's Barriers for Nanomedicine Targeting" (host: Prof. Guironnet)

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 4/28/2021

Isaac Kim (Martinis lab) - “Investigating function of leucyl-tRNA synthetase in gastric cancer via Wnt-signaling pathway”

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 4/28/2021

Qianqiao Heather Liu (Stadtmueller lab) - “Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by 1H-detected 3D TEDOR NMR spectroscopy & Structural characterization of Immunoglobulin A - binding proteins in streptococcus pyogenes”

Seminar/Symposium

2:00 pm 4/29/2021

CHBE 565 Seminar, Dr. Chih-Jen Shih, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, "How van der Waals Forces Transmit Through One-atom-thick Materials" (host: Prof. Ying Diao)

Seminar/Symposium

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/29/2021

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Marcin Grabowicz, Emory University -- "Lipoproteins - greasing the machines of outer membrane assembly”

To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

Seminar/Symposium

ART OF SCIENCE 11: ELEMENTAL The IGB’s Art of Science program is a celebration of the common ground between science and art. The works in this installation were created by pairing IGB scientists and their research images with current IGB artist Julia Pollack. Opening April 30th at University of Illinois Arboretum.

8:30 am 4/30/2021 - 5/8/2021
University of Illinois Arboretum, 1800 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana

Art of Science 11.0: Elemental

ART OF SCIENCE 11: ELEMENTAL The IGB’s Art of Science program is a celebration of the common ground between science and art. The works in this installation were created by pairing IGB scientists and their research images with current IGB artist Julia Pollack. Opening April 30th at University of Illinois Arboretum.

Exhibition

12:00 pm 4/30/2021

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Gavin Williams (North Carolina State University, Department of Chemistry), “Synthetic Biology Approach to New-to-Nature Secondary Metabolites"

Seminar/Symposium

UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

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