Daehyuk's Seminars

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

Time: 12:00 pm 3/2/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer

Time: 12:00 pm 3/3/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

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"Mechanisms underlying perception and mnemonic interaction in the human brain," by Adam Steel, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Time: 4:00 pm 3/3/2026
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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Photo of Assistant Professor, Adam Steel

BIOE Seminar Series: Founder Professor Cunjiang Yu

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/4/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: William Fang / Zhao Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 3/4/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Madhusree Seal (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Characterization of structure and function of mallard FcαμR "

Time: 4:00 pm 3/4/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026
Location: Loomis Lab 141

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Emily Nash CHEM 575 Seminar: "The Search for Broad-spectrum Antivenom Therapeutics to Treat Snake Bites"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/5/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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Julian Bowes CHEM 575 Seminar: "Leveraging Transition Metal Catalysis in the Body"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/5/2026

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Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster Overview

Time: 12:00 pm 3/5/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Mike Reynolds, Shell (Host: Prof. Paul Kenis), "Catalysis and Its Role in Building a Hydrogen Economy"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/5/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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Final Defense: Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Accelerating Vaccine Design Through Antibody Discovery and High-Throughput Immunofocused Antigen Engineering"

Time: 3:00 pm 3/5/2026
Location: 274 MSB

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Andrew Oberst (University of Washington) - "Dying to Get Noticed: Immune Responses to Apoptotic and Necroptotic Cells

Time: 12:00 pm 3/6/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Final Defense of Jerry Rong, "THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE WITH BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMERS AS CHANNELS FOR CHEMICAL TRANSPORT"

Time: 1:00 pm 3/6/2026
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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

Time: 12:00 pm 3/9/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Prof. Ying Li, Hong Kong University, "Profiling RNA Localization: Developing New Chemical Tools for Functional Exploration"

Time: 4:00 pm 3/9/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Carl Denard, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Huimin Zhao) "Engineering and Leveraging the Yeast Secretion Pathway to Reprogram Bond-forming, Bond-cleaving Enzymes and to Model Human Diseases"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/10/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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"Understanding Individual Variation in Cortical Dynamics: A Computational Approach," by Matthew Singh, Dept. of Statistics, University of Illinois; Beckman Institute

Time: 4:00 pm 3/10/2026
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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BIOE Seminar Series: Professor David Odde

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/11/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 3/11/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, "Photonic Approaches for Single-Molecule Sensing and Spectroscopy"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/11/2026
Location: CLSL B102

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Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "SMIRIB-Induced Death in Uterine Endometrial Cancer Cells: Functional and Transcriptomic Analysis"

Time: 4:00 pm 3/11/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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The Physics Colloquium: Jainendra Jain (The Pennsylvania State University) “absolutely mindboggling! weirder than we ever thought.”

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/11/2026
Location: Loomis Lab 141

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Alex Mortenson (Tajkhorshid Lab) - “In silico characterization of the efflux susceptibility of novel Gram-negative antibiotics.”

Time: 4:30 pm 3/11/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Gizem Ozturk CHEM 575 Seminar: "Structure-Guided Antibody Discovery for Targeting Cancer Cell Surface Glycans""

Time: 12:00 pm 3/12/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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Owen Young CHEM 575 Seminar: "Unnatural Amino Acids in Antimicrobial Peptides to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/12/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Molecular Scale Engineering of Polymer Membranes for Energy, Environment and Health"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/12/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

Time: 4:00 pm 3/17/2026
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, "Harnessing spin polarization in photoexcited quantum dots"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/18/2026
Location: Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

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Professor Markus Gallei, Universität Des Saarlandes: "Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Architectures"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/19/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shengyi Fei / Zhao Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 3/23/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Final Defense: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - "High-throughput profiling of the arms race between antibodies and viral antigens."

Time: 3:00 pm 3/23/2026
Location: B102 CLSL

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"The proximate (including neural!) basis of evolutionary divergence in paternal care in sticklebacks," by Alison Bell, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 4:00 pm 3/24/2026
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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2026 WCC Women's History Month Alumni Lecture: "Navigating the Transition from Graduate School to a Career in Industry R&D"; Nardine S. Abadeer, Ph.D., Owens Corning

Time: 4:15 pm 3/24/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Laboratory

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BIOE Seminar Series: Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor, Deputy Dean & Chair Lucila Ohno-Machado

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/25/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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Lunch with the Core

Time: 12:00 pm 3/25/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois

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Andy Briercheck (Y. Zhang Lab) - “Role of Ribosomal RNA Methylation in Bacterial Cold Shock Response”

Time: 4:00 pm 3/25/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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The Physics Colloquium: Roni Harnik (Fermi Lab) "Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/25/2026
Location: Loomis Lab 141

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Leah Stroebel CHEM 575 Seminar: "Recent Advancements in 14-3-3 Protein-Protein Interaction Stabilizers"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/26/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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Rex Zhou CHEM 575 Seminar: "Emerging Strategies For Lysine Targeting In Developing Covalent Kinase Inhibitors"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/26/2026
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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Final Defense of Ankit Gautam, "Computational design for critical element sustainability: from platinum-free electrocatalysis to developing non-empirical tight-binding methods for rare-earth element recovery"

Time: 11:00 am 03/06/2026 3/27/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Dianne Newman (CalTech) - "Unveiling low-power survival strategies on life's metabolic edge"

Time: 12:00 pm 3/27/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Final Defense of Archana Verma, "Thermodynamic Origins of Molecular Doping Efficiency for Advancing Predictive Design of Organic Semiconductors"

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm 3/27/2026
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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Final Defense: Rachel Martini (van der donk Lab) - "Discovery and Characterization of Glycocin and Lanthipeptide Natural Products"

Time: 10:00 am 3/30/2026
Location: 612 IGB

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Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Lorraine Bai / Li Lab

Time: 12:00 pm 3/30/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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FINAL DEFENSE: Sukanya Dutta, "Plasmon Generated Solvated Electrons". Advisor: Professor Stephan Link

Time: 1:30 pm 3/30/2026
Location: B102 CLSL

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Final Defense: Junyao Zhu (Shapiro Lab) - "A Novel Pathway Controlling the Anticancer Therapy-induced Immunogenic Cell Death"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/30/2026
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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CHBE 121 Poster Session

Time: 6:00 pm 8:00 p.m. 3/30/2026
Location: Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

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FINAL DEFENSE: Jagriti Chatterjee "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FRAMEWORKS FOR MOTION CLASSIFICATION AND STATE TRANSITIONS IN 3D SINGLE PARTICLE TRACKING". Advisor, Professor Christy Landes

Time: 1:00 pm 3/31/2026
Location: B102 CLSL

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CANCELLED : CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Rudiyanto Gunawan, University at Buffalo (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "Systems Glycoinformatics – Decoding Glycosylation Through Systems Biology and Machine Learning"

Time: 2:00 pm 3/31/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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"Circadian clocks in brain aging and Alzheimer's Disease," by Erik S. Musiek, MD, PhD, Charlotte & Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Time: 4:00 pm 3/31/2026
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

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