Morrill Hall Display Calendar

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

Time: 3:30 pm 4/1/2025
Location: i Hotel and Conference Center

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

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Plant Science Seminar Series: Sarah Lipps , UIUC (Crop Sciences) "Resistance to Gibberella Ear Rot in Maize: Potential mechanisms and breeding strategies"

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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PEEC Seminars- Sean Ooi, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Characterization of soil moisture legacy control of nitrous oxide production vs. reduction dynamics in terrestrial soils

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 11:00 am 4/3/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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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

Time: 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/4/2025
Location: 2004 Natural History Building

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/4/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Entomology Graduate Student Appreciate Week

Time: 4:00 pm 4/7/2025
Location: TBD

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"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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/8/2025
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth

Time: 12:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yaowu Yuan, UConn. "How and why do plants evolve so many beautiful forms of flowers in nature?"

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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

Time: 9:30 am 4/10/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

Time: 10:00 am 4/10/2025
Location: 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"

Time: 11:00 am 4/10/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/10/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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EEB Colloquium - Dr. Yuki Haba, Columbia University

Time: 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/11/2025
Location: 2004 Natural History Building

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

Time: 9:30 am 4/11/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Entomology Colloquium - Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montréal, QC - "Spiders on the web: silk-based communication, flexible foraging strategies, and the transmission of online (mis)information"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/14/2025
Location: B102 CLSL

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NSP Graduate Student Only _ Meeting & Workshop

Time: 4:00 pm 4/15/2025
Location: **Beckman Institute 2269**

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

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. David Moeller, UMN.

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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PEEC Seminars- Ratna Karatgi, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, The genetic, environmental, and behavioral processes shaping color polymorphism in bluefin killifish

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 11:00 am 4/17/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/17/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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EEB Colloquium - Fuller Lab Talks - Topic: Summer Research

Time: 9:00 - 10:00 am 4/18/2025
Location: 2004 Natural History Building

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8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

Time: 11:30 am 4/18/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Biochemistry Graduate Award Symposium poster

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/21/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Time: 12:30 pm 4/21/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Entomology Colloquium - Cassandra Extavour, Professor, Harvard University

Time: 4:00 pm 4/21/2025
Location: B102 CLSL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/22/2025
Location: **Beckman Institute 5602**

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Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Tie Liu, UF. “Aging, senescence, and stress in plants: what we have learned from Arabidopsis to horticultural crops”

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

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PEEC Seminars- Kevin Neumann, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, The individual and collective behavior of social organisms across environments

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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

Time: 11:00 am 4/24/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/24/2025
Location: Medical Sciences Bldg 274

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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

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

Time: 3:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/28/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Entomology Colloquium - Hojun Song, Professor, Texas A&M University - "Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae) as a model clade for understanding the evolution of phenotypic plasticity"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/28/2025
Location: B102 CLSL

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Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Plant Science Seminar Series: Dr. Yiping Qi, UMD. "Developing Genome Engineering Tools to Advance Crop Improvement"

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: 149 National Soybean Research Center, Pizza to follow in Room 167

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Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "Mechanism of ATP-dependent phosphonate ester formation"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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PEEC Seminars- Derek McFarland, UIUC, PEEC Exit Seminar, Tick-Borne Disease in a Dynamic Landscape: Does Exposure Risk Change Over Time?

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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