College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Chemical Sciences

Seminars of Interest

Showing events filtered by Dates: April 1, 2021 to April 30, 2021.

Seminars of InterestSearch Results

Michael Mulligan, UIUC, "Emerging Strategies for Targeting Mammalian RNA with Small Molecules"

Time

12:00 pm 4/1/2021
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Stephanie Chen, UIUC, "ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE ELECTROREDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO VALUE ADDED CHEMICALS" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

Time

1:00 pm 4/1/2021
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Edzna Garcia, Final Defense, UIUC, "SINGLE-CHAIN POLYMERIC SYSTEMS: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND APPLICATIONS"

Time

1:30 pm 4/1/2021
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FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Alexander Horn, “Investigations Into the Biphasic Seeded Emulsion Polymerization in a Continuous Tubular Reactor”

Time

3:00 pm 4/1/2021
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FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Gavin Donley, "The Yielding Transition in Soft Materials"

Time

3:00 pm 4/1/2021
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Alexander Gomez, UIUC, "Recent Developments in the Multicomponent Petasis Reaction"

Time

4:00 pm 4/1/2021
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Chengtian Shen, Final Defense, UIUC, "Molecular design of precise ionic polymer networks for fundamental structure-property-relationships and energy-related applications"

Time

10:00 am 4/2/2021
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FINAL DEFENSE, Ms. Yu-Tong Connie Hong, "Functional Particles for Controlled Release and Cell Surface Engineering"

Time

10:00 am 4/2/2021
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Professor Charles McCrory, University of Michigan, Title: The Electrochemical Conversion of C0₂to C0 with Polymer-Encapsulated Co Catalysts: Modulating Activity and Selectivity by Controlling the Catalyst’s Coordination Environment

Time

4:00 pm 4/2/2021
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Yunyan Sun, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Cascade Metathesis Polymerization"

Time

4:00 pm 4/5/2021

Location

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
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Ruixian Zhang, UIUC, "Investigation of Alternative Battery Systems Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

Time

1:00 pm 4/6/2021
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Professor Jonathan Barnes, Washington University in St. Louis, "Supramolecular Polymers and Crosslinkers to Control Structure, Properties, and Performance in Polymer Networks and Nanomaterials"

Time

3:30 pm 4/6/2021
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Chelsea Swartchick, UIUC, "Recent Advances of the Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder Reaction in Benzyne Chemistry"

Time

4:00 pm 4/6/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Dinesh Kumar, "Shape dynamics of lipid vesicles in flow using automated fluidic control"

Time

11:00 am 4/7/2021
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FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Ajit Vikram, "Continuous Flow Synthesis of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Towards Autonomous Experimentation for Accelerated Material Discovery"

Time

1:00 pm 4/7/2021
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Che Yang (Zhao lab) - Investigating the genome engineering tools in heterochromatin regions of mammalian cell

Time

4:00 pm 4/7/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Chunyu Wu (van der Donk lab) - "Investigation into the Mechanism of Action of Sublancin 168"

Time

4:00 pm 4/7/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
LAS Alumni Career Panel - Featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod Henderson

Time

6:00 pm 4/7/2021

Don't miss the LAS Alumni Career Panel "Science and Medicine Careers" on April 7 featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod A. Henderson, an Instructional Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Register for this virtual event today.
- Seminar/Symposium
Joel Roberts, UIUC, "Chemical Manipulation of Macrophage Phenotypes to Induce Tissue Regeneration"

Time

12:00 pm 4/8/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey Gray, Johns Hopkins University, "Predicting Protein Complex Structures with Biophysical and Deep Learning Approaches" (host: Prof. Diwakar Shukla)

Time

2:00 pm 4/8/2021
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Professor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah, "Designer Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Coherent Charge and Spin Transfer"

Time

3:30 pm 4/8/2021
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Annual OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)

Time

12:00 - 3:00 pm 4/9/2021
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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Katrina Forest (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology), “Chemical Biology of Freshwater Rhodopsin and a Novel Photoheterotrophy"

Time

12:00 pm 4/9/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Awards Ceremony

Time

4:00 pm 4/9/2021
- Ceremony/Service
Nikita Modi (Chen lab) - Brd4 Modulates Innate Immunity by glycolytic pathway upon H. pylori infection

Time

4:00 pm 4/14/2021
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Shukun Yang (Silverman lab) -"DNAzymes for amine alkylation by reductive amination"

Time

4:00 pm 4/14/2021
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Merck Lecture, Dr. Greg Hughes, Merck, “The Development of a Biocatalytic Cascade for Manufacturing Islatravir”

Time

4:00 pm 4/15/2021
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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry) "Design and Evolution of Macrocyclic Organo-Peptide Hybrids for Selective Modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions"

Time

12:00 pm 4/16/2021
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Yujue Wang, UIUC, "Development of Amyloid Beta Binding Bifunctional Chelators for Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

Time

1:00 pm 4/16/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
CPLC/iPoLS Seminar: "Dynamic Bioengineered Hydrogels to Study Brain Tumor Biology"

Time

2:00 pm 4/16/2021
- Lecture
Professor Kevin Tucker, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Title: Research at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water

Time

4:00 pm 4/16/2021
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David Dennis, Final Defense, UIUC, "DEAROMATIVE HYDROBORATION-ENABLED SYNTHESIS OF IDARUBICINONE AND SYNTHESIS OF MINOR CANNABINOIDS AND THEIR METABOLITES"

Time

1:00 pm 4/20/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Junrou Huang, UIUC, "Recyclable Polymer with Linear and Cyclic Structure Synthesized by Ring-opening Polymerization of γ-Butyrolactone"

Time

4:00 pm 4/20/2021
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Prof. Sara Mason, University of Iowa, "Building Bridges between Computational Chemistry and Experiment at the Nanoscale: Materials for Energy and the Environment"

Time

2:00 pm 4/21/2021
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Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Time

3:30 - 6:00 pm 4/21/2021
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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Kou-San Ju (The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology), “Genomics-Accelerated Discovery and Biosynthesis of Phosphonic Acid Natural Products"

Time

12:00 pm 4/23/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE - Tianjiong Yao (Silverman lab) - "DNAzymes for amine and peptide lysine acylation".

Time

1:00 pm 4/26/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Eun Ji Chung, University of Southern California, "Exploiting the Body's Barriers for Nanomedicine Targeting" (host: Prof. Guironnet)

Time

2:00 pm 4/27/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
Aliza N. Yazdani, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Palladium-Catalyzed Cyanation of Arenes"

Time

4:00 pm 4/27/2021

Location

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83576376281?pwd=R0VPVG1JRktQRXQvYWU2TEdhcjFBUT09
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Isaac Kim (Martinis lab) - “Investigating function of leucyl-tRNA synthetase in gastric cancer via Wnt-signaling pathway”

Time

4:00 pm 4/28/2021
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Qianqiao Heather Liu (Stadtmueller lab) - “Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by 1H-detected 3D TEDOR NMR spectroscopy & Structural characterization of Immunoglobulin A - binding proteins in streptococcus pyogenes”

Time

4:00 pm 4/28/2021
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Gina Tran, UIUC, "Isolation and Catalytic Reactivity of Mononuclear PdI Complexes Supported by Tetradentate N2S2 and NCHS2 Ligands" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

Time

11:00 am 4/29/2021
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565 Seminar, Dr. Chih-Jen Shih, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, "How van der Waals Forces Transmit Through One-atom-thick Materials" (host: Prof. Ying Diao)

Time

2:00 pm 4/29/2021
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Flygare Memorial Lecture: Rescheduled to 2022

Time

4:00 pm 4/29/2021
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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Gavin Williams (North Carolina State University, Department of Chemistry), “Synthetic Biology Approach to New-to-Nature Secondary Metabolites"

Time

12:00 pm 4/30/2021
- Seminar/Symposium

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