Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease

12:00 pm 11/4/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"

Seminar/Symposium

2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

4:00 pm 11/4/2025

Beckman Institute ATRIUM

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

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

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models

4:00 pm 11/4/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm 11/5/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume

12:00 pm 11/5/2025

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions

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BIOE Seminar Series: Richard & Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering Xinchang Yao

12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/5/2025

Everitt 1306

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Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/5/2025

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

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The Physics Colloquium "Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Our Shared Stories" (2025 AIP Andrew Gemant Award)

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

Loomis Lab 141

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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.

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Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineered Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editors"

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar: "Small-Molecule Based Cellular Reprogramming to Control Stem Cell Fate"

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Final Defense - PhD - Saeed Ahmad

1:00 pm 11/6/2025

Everitt 2100

Other

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

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The challenge of invasive fish in streams: some lessons from laboratory experiments

4:00 pm 11/6/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

2:00 pm 11/7/2025

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

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"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm 11/7/2025

RAL 116

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East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

9:00 am - 5:00 pm 11/8/2025

Illini Union

Conference/Workshop

Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

1:00 - 1:50 pm 11/10/2025

157 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CANCELED Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm 11/10/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

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”

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

2:00 pm 11/11/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

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

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Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

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

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

Decoding the Cellular Mechanisms Responsible for Traumatic Brain Injury

4:00 pm 11/11/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

W109 Turner Hall

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

BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Sudin Bhattacharya

12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/12/2025

Everitt 1306

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 11/12/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Zhengyi Bian "From Purification, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Carbon Dots to Synthesis Modeling and AI-assisted Spectral Data Extraction" Advisor: Stephan Link

3:30 pm 11/12/2025

Everett Lab 3100

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The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025

Loomis Lab 141

Seminar/Symposium

Explore Bioengineering Graduate Professional Opportunities at Illinois

6:00 pm 11/12/2025

Conference/Workshop

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

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm 11/13/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

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

Data-driven polymeric constitutive equations: Can GENERIC help machine-learning discover?

4:00 pm 11/13/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

POSTPONED - 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

Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm 11/14/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Turbulent hotspots in compression ramps and channel flows

12:00 pm 11/14/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

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

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm 11/14/2025

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Seminar/Symposium

Literature Seminar, "Innovative Techniques in Mixed Gas Detection: Exploring Multi-Resonant and Dual Differential Strategies for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy", Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm 11/14/2025

RAL 116

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”