Integrative Biology

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Transforming Science: Computing Skills to Implement the Future

12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/1/2021
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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Pamela Martinez, University of Illinois, “Pathogen dynamics across scales: from climate forcing to strain diversity,” https://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/pamelapm/

4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/1/2021
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Lessons in Biology as taught by a pathogen

5:30 pm 9/1/2021

“Lessons in Biology as taught by a pathogen" Thomas Kehl-Fie, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology
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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jose Lemos, University of Florida -- "The Two Faces of Zinc in Streptococcus mutans Pathophysiology"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/2/2021

Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
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The evolutionary tournament between plants and pathogens through the lens of phylogenomics

12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/8/2021
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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Steve Alison, University of California - Irvine, “Trait-based strategies and drought response in microbial communities,” https://allisonlab.bio.uci.edu/

4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/8/2021
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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Liz Sockett, University of Nottingham -- "Understanding and applying the predatory biology of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus bacteria"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/9/2021
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Entomology Colloquium - Brian Walsh, Extension Educator, Penn State University - "Six Years of Spotted Lanternfly in Pennsylvania - what we know, what we don't and what does it mean?"

4:00 pm 9/13/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program/Microbiology seminar: Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan -- "Cryo-EM studies of Type IV Secretion Systems of pathogenic bacteria"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/14/2021

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
- Seminar/Symposium
Why do we eat what we eat?

12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/15/2021

Join us for our latest series which highlights the intersection of food, science, and culture, with meals tailored by campus chefs paired to each lecture. Our first offering features M. Yanina Pepino, Assistant Professor of Nutrition at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who will discuss “Why do we eat what we eat?”
- Seminar/Symposium
What is labile soil organic matter and why does it matter?

12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/15/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - No Seminar Scheduled for Wednesday, September 15, 2021

4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/15/2021
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Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Patrick McLaughlin, Michigan State University -- "Networks of kinases and transcription factors regulate adhesion in Caulobacter crescentus"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/16/2021

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
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Entomology Colloquium - Brittany Peterson, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville - "Termite symbionts as mediators of host protection"

4:00 pm 9/20/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Soil respiration responses to climate change are constrained by climate history

12:00 pm 9/21/2021

Christine Hawkes, PhD North Carolina State University; Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology "Soil respiration responses to climate change are constrained by climate history"
- Seminar/Symposium
Global warming and its impact on plant development

12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/22/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anthony Amend, University of Hawaii, Manoa, "The secret lives of microbes: connectivity across land, sea, and stream within a model Hawaiian mesocosm," http://www.amendlab.com/

4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/22/2021
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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Elli Harrison, University of Sheffield -- "The evolutionary ecology of bacteria-mobile genetic element interactions"

11:00 am 12:00 pm 9/23/2021
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Entomology Colloquium - Elizabeth Gleim, Professor, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA - "Fire, ticks, and Lyme disease: A fascinating dive into the world of tick-borne disease ecology"

4:00 pm 9/27/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Q&A with "Picture A Scientist" Director

12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/28/2021

The IGB is hosting a virtual Q&A with Ian Cheney, one of the two directors of the documentary "Picture A Scientist."
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Tara Essock-Burns, University of Hawaii -- "How microbe-host dialogue shapes the neighborhood: spatial transcriptomic tools to study tissue microbiogeography"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/28/2021
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Index mapping: biological hypothesis testing of pathways in quantitative genetics

12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/29/2021
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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sofia Casasa, Indiana University, "Regulation and evolution of phenotypic plasticity: insights from horned beetles and predatory nematodes," http://www.sofiacasasa.com/

4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/29/2021
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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, University of California-Berkeley -- "Developing Methylotrophs as Efficient Platforms for Recovery of Critical Metals"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/30/2021
- Seminar/Symposium