Integrative Biology

IB Student Panel Info Session

4:45 - 6:00 pm 3/2/2026

Pizza social: 2002 NHB (SIB Advising Suite); Student Panel: 2079 NHB

Social/Informal Event

Entomology Colloquium - Marianne Alleyne, Assistant Professor, Entomology, UIUC - "Jump, Glide, Fly, and Roll: Understanding Insect Locomotion Through Engineered Models"

11:00 am 3/3/2026

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

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

12:00 pm 3/3/2026

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”

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/3/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models

12:00 pm 3/4/2026

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois

Ceremony/Service

Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Giles Oldroyd

12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/4/2026

Turner Hall Room W109

Seminar/Symposium

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster Overview

12:00 pm 3/5/2026

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Rasika Harshey, University of Texas: "Nucleolus-like Organization of ribosomal RNA loci in E. coli"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/5/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Entomology Colloquium - Kevin Johnson, Principal Ornithologist, INHS, UIUC - "Phylogenomics and cophylogenomics of lice at multiple scales"

11:00 am 3/10/2026

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/10/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

[VIRTUAL] PEEC Seminar (AM Session) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris, "Interdisciplinarity and Museum Collections in the Study of Cockroach Evolution"

9:00 - 10:00 am 3/11/2026

Seminar/Symposium

Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Rachel Hestrin, Mycorrhizal symbiosis alters rhizosphere bacterial carbon acquisition and resilience to drought, University of Massachusetts

12:00 3/11/2026

Turner Hall Room W109

Seminar/Symposium

[IN-PERSON] PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/11/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "Yes! Bacteria have organelles! How are they organized?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/12/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

EEB Colloquium: EEB, "Coffee Hour"

9:00 am 3/13/2026

2004, NHB

Seminar/Symposium

Spring Vacation Begins

1:00 pm 3/14/2026

Other

Science on Tap

1:00 pm 3/22/2026

Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.

Social/Informal Event

Instruction resumes

7:00 am 3/23/2026

Other

Entomology Colloquium - Laramy Enders, Associate Professor, Purdue University - "Leveraging microbial partners to improve crop health and pest protection"

11:00 am 3/24/2026

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/24/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Lunch with the Core

12:00 pm 3/25/2026

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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

Seminar/Symposium

Plant Seminar Series Speaker: Jenn Brophy, Standford, Programmable Memory as a Tool for Plant Genome Engineering

12:00 - 12:50 pm 3/25/2026

Turner Hall Room W109

Seminar/Symposium

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/25/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Chen Chen, Louisiana State University -- "Staphylococcal Superantigen-like Protein 11, a Foe or a Friend?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/26/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

EEB Colloquium: Ed Newcomer, "Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Nonacademic career, Conservation Stings"

9:00 am 3/27/2026

2004, NHB

Seminar/Symposium

Doctoral Defense | Nicholas Iacaruso

12:00 pm 3/27/2026

W-115 Turner Hall

Other

Entomology Colloquium - Peter Marting, Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University - "Superorganism physiology: How behavior, architecture, and environments regulate insect societies"

11:00 am 3/31/2026

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abbi Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 3/31/2026

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

Investiture of Dr. Tigga Kingston as Chair of the Shelford-Pitelka-Batzli Professorship in Mammalian Ecology

4:00 - 6:00 pm 3/31/2026

Illini Union South Lounge

Ceremony/Service