Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

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- 12:00 pm 1/28/2025
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis

LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/28/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 1
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 1/29/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Callan Luetkemeyer
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 1/29/2025
- A133 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory (CLSL)
NMR Walking Tour
- Exhibition
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 1/29/2025
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Roel Tempelaar, Northwestern University, "Steering Spin–valley Polarizations through Phonons and Photons"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/29/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/30/2025
Can polymeric flows be the Drosophila of continuum mechanics?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 1/31/2025
- B102 CLSL
Analytical Seminar - Dr. Pei Su, Northwestern University, “Unravelling the Spatial and Single Cell Proteome Using Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 1/31/2025
- Chem Annex 1024
FINAL DEFENSE: Michael Pence "AUTOMATING ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION FOR STUDIES IN ENERGY STORAGE AND CONVERSION" - Advisor: Professor Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm 1/31/2025
M-CELS (Multicellular Engineered Living Systems) Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/3/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Advancing Epigenetic Profiling and Genome Editing by Enzyme Engineering"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
First Year Project Presentations - Group 2
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Direct Digital Manufacturing of Multi-material Structures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 2/5/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Chi Hwan Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/5/2025
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, New York University, "Beating the viscosity-conductivity inverse relation barrier to create a breakthrough electrolyte for emerging battery applications: Quantum mechanics holds the key"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/5/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Watson Lecture "The renaissance of general relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am 2/6/2025
- Virtual meeting details will be provided upon request.
Final Defense, Mr. Timothy James Tan, "Engineering the fusion machinery core of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for vaccine immunogen design"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/6/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "Medullary Circuits in Satiety and Aversion: Implications for Anti-Obesity Drug Development"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 2/11/2025
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/11/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/11/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanical computing in adaptive materials: From neuromorphic intelligence to parallel information processing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 2/12/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Andrew Webb, Ph.D
- Ceremony/Service
- 12:00 pm 2/12/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Hodges
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/12/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/13/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Joe (Huanyu) Qiao, University of Illinois, "Meiotic Silencing is Regulated by Asynapsis Levels and Gel-like Phase Separation"

Associate Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Dept. Bioengineering, Dept. Biophysics, IGB, CCIL
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:15 am 2/14/2025
- TBD
Analytical Seminar - Dr. Dingran Chang, Northwestern University, “Exploring Functional Nucleic Acids for Biosensor Development”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/18/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
"From Bird Brains to Science Diplomacy, and Back," by Timothy DeVoogd, Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/18/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: TBA -- Trainee Host: Vanessa Jones/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/18/2025
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Alex Horswill, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, "Polymicrobial Cross-talk on the Skin Limits MRSA Colonization and Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/19/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/24/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Expanding the Druggable Space by Innovative Chemical Biology Approaches"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 2/25/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, "Enabling Polyolefin Circularity through Melt Functionalization and Upcycling" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/25/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Morgan Letzkus/Mera Lab and Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/25/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Homeobox genes and neuronal identity specification," by Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/25/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Autonomous Systems: Research, Real-World Applications and Effective Industry-Academia Partnerships
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/26/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford). Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/27/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 2/28/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - "Secondary messenger signaling at surfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/4/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/4/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/4/2025
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amie Boal, Penn State University, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/4/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/5/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/5/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jesse Chi Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/5/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Janet Conrad (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/6/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "TBA

Assistant Professor, College of Aces, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/6/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/11/2025
- 612 Conference Room, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Pioneers Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/11/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/12/2025
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/12/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/13/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/13/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/14/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/14/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/19/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/25/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/25/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/26/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/26/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Savas Tay
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/26/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Frans Pretorius (Princeton), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/27/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Flak, Indiana University, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/27/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m. 3/31/2025
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational
- 1:00 pm 4/1/2025
- Beckman 4269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Hannah Kimmel
- Other
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/1/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Steven Eichinger/Brooke Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/1/2025
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Frank Schroeder, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/1/2025
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/2/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Vishnu Krishnamurthy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/2/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- 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 - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/4/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/4/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/7/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Rudolph Jaenisch
- 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
- 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
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging and Therapeutics," by Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, Senior investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Director, Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology at Gladstone Institutes/ UCSF
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/9/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/9/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Gargi Maheshwari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/9/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/10/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "TBA"
- 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
- 12:00 pm 4/11/2025
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Xi Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/11/2025
- RAL 116
Professor Tom Soh, Stanford University, "TBD"
- 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
- 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
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/16/2025
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- 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
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/17/2025
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/18/2025
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "Implantable and Portable D-Amino Acid Biosensors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/22/2025
- RAL 116
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin
- 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
- 12:00 pm 4/23/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Xiao Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/23/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- 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. James P. Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: Distinct Biologies of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blockade"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/25/2025
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransico), "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium