Beckman Institute Calendar (Master)

Dr. Chipot will show how combination of importance-sampling schemes can be used profitably to map with unprecedented efficiency and without any loss of accuracy complex free-energy landscapes from whence physically meaningful transition pathways can be extracted.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Receive an overview of human subjects research from Jennifer Ford, an assistant director in the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects.

Information flow in the cortex is classically considered as feedforward-hierarchical computation. However, recent findings have started to reveal rather parallel and distributed processing. Dr. Kato will discuss his team's work studying parallel sensory pathways across the primary and higher auditory cortices in extracting complex sound features.

Two graduate students will present their research at the second Beckman Graduate Student Seminar of the fall 2022 semester: Winnie Chung, psychology; and Abhiroop Mishra, materials science and engineering. The event takes place Wednesday, Oct. 5 at noon in 1005 Beckman Institute and on Zoom. Register in advance to attend in person or on Zoom.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room except for class on 10/12 which will be held in Beckman room 5602 . All are welcome bring your own mat! 

Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Illinois, will lecture on “The role of brain specific tyrosine phosphatase STEP in hippocampal excitability and seizures” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom October 5, 2022. One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction.

Prof. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford Univ., will speak about "From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World." at 2 p.m. CST Oct. 6. The virtual talk is part of the annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science.

Learn about Calculating the Sensory Aesthetics of Black Liberation from Stacey Robinson, an associate professor of graphic design, in the School of Art & Design.

Dr. Aksimentiev will reveal several systems which will illustrate the applications of high-end all-atom, coarse-grained, and multi-resolution simulations to obtain information inaccessible to previous experimental approaches while providing a forward-looking perspective on modeling of an entire biological cell at all-atom resolution.

Dr. Sulc will present a top-down coarse-grained model, oxDNA, which was specifically designed for simulations of DNA nanotechnology systems, and present examples where it has been used to help design and understand function of DNA, RNA and protein-DNA hybrid nanostructures and processes.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Receive an overview of laboratory safety from Stephanie Hess, a director in the Division of Research Safety.

Brains can be modeled as functional networks, where interregional connections and their weights are estimated as a correlations. Dr. Betzel will present an approach for exactly decomposing these connections (edges) into their time-varying contributions. This approach yields framewise estimates of networks across time and can be used to estimate the novel construct of "edge

Join us at noon on Wednesday this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room except for class on 10/12 which will be held in Beckman room 5602 . All are welcome bring your own mat! 

The liver is crucial for maintaining whole body energy balance. Dr. Moore's lab found FXR and PPARα also regulate processes that are not related to metabolic pathways but are central to liver energy balance. Dr. Moore's presentation will focus on the previously described roles of FXR and PPARα in control of autophagy and recent results on control of liver secretome.

To strengthen the Beckman community, Beckman Institute Director Nadya Mason invites you to join her and other members of administration leadership in the 2nd-floor tower room from 11 am-12 pm on Thursday, October 13, for a graduate student feedback session. Please bring your ideas as to how Beckman’s leadership can support you and your peers.

The Quantum Information Revolution is in full swing, and entanglement — the spooky nonclassical, nonlocal connection that can be shared by quantum particles — is the key ingredient. In this talk, Dr. Kwiat will discuss how to create (photon) entanglement, and several applications for secure communication and quantum-enhanced sensing.

Marianne Alleyne will speak at the Beckman Institute's virtual Director's Seminar at noon Thursday, Oct. 13. Alleyne, assistant professor in the Department of Entomology, will be discussing "Insects did it first: multifunctionality of surfaces and structures." Please indicate whether you will attend virtually or in-person.

Dr. Bhargava will present a detailed theoretical understanding of image formation in nanoscale spectroscopic imaging using an atomic force microscope in contact mode. A new method, based on null deflection of the cantilever, is introduced to provide high-quality data.

In this talk, Dr. Lamoureux will present his team's contributions to the development of unified “sequence-to-structure-to-function” models based on deep neural networks. These models aim at predicting how proteins assemble and interact with one another using molecular representations learned from high-throughput PPI data.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Receive an overview of animal research from Jiajie Jessica Xu, an assistant director, veterinarian, in the Division of Animal Resources.

Gaining an understanding of the neural circuits essential to social behavior in rodents can be challenging due to the need for relatively unconstrained experiments. Robots can be used as a tool for understanding social encounters with other rats and for gaining an understanding of the coordinated dynamics of neural circuits involved in social appraisal.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. Class will not be held on 11/23 . All are welcome bring your own mat! 

Join Beckman Director Nadya Mason and other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. the third Thursday of each month.

Learn about "And Ya Don’t Stop: we built a time machine called the Hip Hop Xpress Double Dutch Boom Bus to transfer the legacy of African American technology innovation and entrepreneurship into the METAVERSE" from William Patterson, a clinical associate professor in the School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts.

Quantitative analysis of the EVs showed that those from the tumor microenvironment have unique optical signatures, in comparison to those from healthy human subjects. The use of this platform of label-free nonlinear imaging techniques offers comprehensive cell-to-clinic capabilities, and the clinical demonstration of these optical biomedical imaging technologies offers.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Receive an overview of radiation safety from Anja Metz, an assistant director and radiation safety officer at the Division of Research Safety.

Join the Beckman community for an afternoon of fun while painting pumpkins. Stop in between 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Beckman Institute Garden, located west of the café through the double doors. Decorate a pumpkin for yourself or to be placed the atrium. Pumpkins and painting supplies provided. Faculty, staff and students and postdocs are encouraged to attend!

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. Class will not be held on 11/23 . All are welcome bring your own mat! 

Sepideh Sadaghiani, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will lecture on “The functional connectome across temporal scales” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom October 26, 2022. One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction. The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Biofilms are comprised of communities of microorganisms encapsulated in a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances that serves to isolate and protect the microorganisms from harmful environmental factors and even antibiotics.