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FINAL DEFENSE, Kianoush Falahkheirkhah, "Digital Chemical Pathology"

10:00 am 4/3/2023

4269 Beckman Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Kameron Medine, "P(V) Methods for the Generation of Stereogenic Phosphorus in Bioactive Molecules"

4:00 pm 4/3/2023

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Robert Gilliard, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, "The Cationization Strategy in Main-Group Chemistry: From Bond Activation to Luminescent Materials" (I)

3:30 pm 4/4/2023

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Astronomy Colloquium - "On the Geometry of Exoplanet Systems"

3:45 pm 4/4/2023

Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: John Schneider/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 4/4/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Interseminars | Macarena Gómez-Barris: “Unwriting the Colonial Anthropocene”

7:30 pm 4/4/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
- Lecture
Workshop by Mahbubeh Moqadam

12:00 pm 4/5/2023

3111 Lincoln Hall
- Conference/Workshop
FINAL DEFENSE, Susannah Miller , ""Tunable Latency by Catalyst Encapsulation for Silicone Crosslinking"

4:00 pm 4/5/2023

100 Lincoln Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE, Ryan Miller , "Microfluidic-engineered antioxidant crystals for biologics manufacturing"

5:10 pm 4/5/2023

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nohemy Celis Chance, UIUC, "Increasing Probiotic Stickiness Mitigates the Effects of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

12:00 pm 4/6/2023

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Jesse Lee Panger, UIUC, Final Defense, "Enantioselective Alkene Difunctionalization Enabled by Organochalcogen Catalysis"

1:00 pm 4/6/2023

171 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kelly Doran, University of Colorado -- "Life in Mucus: Colonization of the Vaginal Tract by Group B Streptococcus"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/6/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Nerses Kopalyan: "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-Led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"

4:00 pm 4/6/2023

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
HRI Undergraduate Coffee Hour

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/6/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 424
- Other
6th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

11:00 am 4/7/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Lane Baker, Texas A&M University Title: Measuring ions at cell interfaces and moving towards high(er) throughput electrochemical measurements.

4:00 pm 4/7/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Astronomy Colloquium - "Advancements in Exploring the Early Universe: Unlocking Spectroscopy of Galaxies During Reionization with JWST"

3:45 pm 4/11/2023

Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Kieffer Lab

4:00 pm 4/11/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Hongxiang Li, "Recent Advances in Chemoenzymatic Synthesis"

4:00 pm 4/11/2023

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Interseminars | Artist Talk with David Shrobe

7:30 pm 4/11/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
- Lecture
CDB Alumni Seminar 2023: Dr. Tudorita Tumbar, Cornell University: "Molecular mechanisms of tissue stem cell function in skin development and homeostasis"

12:00 pm 4/12/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Timothy Berkelbach, Columbia University, Electronic Excitations in Nanomaterials: New Theories and Methods

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/12/2023

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Graduate Studies Committee Meeting

3:30 - 4:30 pm 4/12/2023

331 Gregory Hall
- Meeting
Faculty Meeting

3:30 - 5:00 pm 4/12/2023

GH 223
- Meeting
Authors in Conversation: Dave Eggers & Daniel Gumbiner

6:00 pm 4/12/2023

I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
- Other
Dr. Kellie Breen Church, Univ. Calif. San Diego "Regulation of reproduction during stress by a brainstem-hypothalamic neural pathway"

11:00 am 4/13/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Diego Orea, UIUC, "Tick-Tock, Hack the Clock: Modulating the Circadian Rhythm with Small Molecules"

12:00 pm 4/13/2023

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Dave Eggers on Working with Community Organizations and Nonprofits

2:00 pm 4/13/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
- Other
Shrayesh Patel, University of Chicago, "Leveraging the Electrochemically Properties of Redox-Active Particles for Energy Storage" (M)

3:30 pm 4/13/2023

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Lazear, University of North Carolina -- "Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at Anatomic Barriers"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/13/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Alfons Pineda-Knauseder, "Recent Designer Surfactants in Micellar Catalysis"

4:00 pm 4/13/2023

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE/OXE Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

All Day 4/14/2023

Illini Union Ballroom
- Other
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience), "Neuronal signal transduction in synaptic plasticity"

12:00 pm 4/14/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Robert Kennedy, University of Michigan Title: Droplet Microfluidics for High Throughput Experiments and Sensing Yur

4:00 pm 4/14/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Distinguished Lecture | Françoise Baylis: "Designer Babies: What Are They and Do We Want Them?"

4:00 pm 4/14/2023

I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom

Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
- Lecture
Professor John McCutcheon, Arizona State University, "The origins and end points of cell-in-cell relationships"

4:00 pm 4/17/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Alyssa Mathias, "Songs from the Silicon Mountains: Music and IT Development in 21st-Century Armenia"

12:00 pm 4/18/2023

0357 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Doherty, University of California Santa Barbara (Su), "Integrated Chemical Reaction Process Systems: From Alan Turing to Martin Feinberg"

2:00 pm 4/18/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Astronomy Colloquium

3:45 pm 4/18/2023

Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Motaher Hossain/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Stephanie Puentes/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/18/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney

12:00 pm 4/19/2023

Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center

Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina
- Other
CDB Student Invited Seminar: Dr. Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchison Cancer Center

12:00 pm 4/19/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Workshop by Fatou Jobe

12:00 pm 4/19/2023

3111 Lincoln Hall
- Conference/Workshop
Emily Mumford, Final Defense, UIUC, "Organoselenium Redox-Catalyzed Alkene syn-Difunctionalization"

2:00 pm 4/19/2023

CLSL-B 124
- Seminar/Symposium
CultureTalk | Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown

7:30 pm 4/19/2023

Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium in person; livestream at go.illinois.edu/culturetalk

Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
- Other
Informational Webinar: CHBE Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering Leadership

8:00 pm 4/19/2023
- Informational
Dr. Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University, St. Louis, "Mechanisms of neuronal and circuit hyperexcitability in Fragile X syndrome"

11:00 am 4/20/2023

Professor, Biophysics
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah (Su), Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"

2:00 pm 4/20/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine -- " Morphogenesis and cell division in diverse alphaproteobacteria"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/20/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Slavic Lecture, Christy Monet, “Toward a Literary Archive of Russian Liberalism: The Imperial Semeistvennoe Gosudarstvo and the Family Novel.”

5:30 pm 4/20/2023

2090B Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture
Poetry Reading and Book Signing: Nikky Finney

7:30 pm 4/20/2023

Alice Campbell Alumni Center

Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
- Performance
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Fengyi Wan (Johns Hopkins University), "Transient bacterial infection and colonic tumorigenesis"

12:00 pm 4/21/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Tim Bartley - GSAC Annual Conference

2:00 pm 4/21/2023

3057 Lincoln Hall
- Conference/Workshop
Classics Colloquium: Evelyn Adkins

2:00 - 4:00 pm 4/21/2023

Lucy Ellis
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology Title: Quantification of ligand and mutation-induced bias in receptor signaling

4:00 pm 4/21/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
History Department 2022-23 Awards Ceremony

4:00 - 6:00 pm 4/22/2023

Illini Union Room 314
- Ceremony/Service
Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Simple Discrete Metal-Ligand Motifs to Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Morphologies" (I)

7:00 pm 4/24/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Matthew E. Helgeson, University of California, Santa Barbara (Rogers), "Development of High-throughput Microrheology to Fuel the Biomaterials Revolution"

2:00 pm 4/25/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Fundamentals to Molecular Design for Energy, Materials and Biomedical Applications" (I)

3:30 pm 4/25/2023

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Astronomy Colloquium - “How Supermassive Black Holes Ignite the Intergalactic Medium: Tales from the Low Redshift Lyman-alpha Forest”

3:45 pm 4/25/2023

Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Seminar: Leilani Cannon, Director, Business Development, Essent Biologics: "Bridging the Gap Between Benchtop to Biological Asset"

12:00 pm 4/26/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"

4:00 pm 4/26/2023

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Graduate Student Town Hall

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/27/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.
- Other
Sanctions on Russia, the War in Ukraine, and the Foreign Service: A Discussion with Director Rob Lee

12:00 pm 4/27/2023

108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Professor Max Robb, Cal Tech, "Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers" (M)

3:30 pm 4/27/2023

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Max Robb, California Institute of Technology, (M&O), "Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers"

3:30 pm 4/27/2023

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Christopher S. Hayes (UC Santa Barbara), Post-translational activation of a toxic antibacterial effector protein"

12:00 pm 4/28/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Humanities Research Lab Showcase

12:00 - 2:00 pm 4/28/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
- Seminar/Symposium
Nicholas Angello, UIUC, Final Defense, "Closed-loop Iterative Molecular Discovery Engines"

2:00 pm 4/28/2023

B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Rong Fan, Yale University Title: Spatially Resolved Multi-Omics Sequencing via Microfluidic Deterministic Barcoding in Tissue

4:00 pm 4/28/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
2023 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor George C. Schatz, Northwestern University, "Plasmons, Molecules and Theory: Where Top-down Meets Bottom-up."

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/28/2023

CLSL B-102
- Lecture