Seminars of Interest

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- 11:00 am 1pm 4/1/2022
- B102 CLSL
Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/1/2022
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)
5th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/1/2022
- 157 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Danielle Harrier , "Tunable encapsulations: droplet-based microfluidics for the expansion of biodegradable polymer technologies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/1/2022
- Loomis Lab 144
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Angad Mehta (UIUC) "Synthetic Biology Platforms for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Lecture
- 9:00 am 4/4/2022
- 279 Davenport Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Jason Adams , "Organic Species, Alloys, and Support Identity Control H2 and O2 Activation to H2O2 on Metal Nanoparticles""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 4/4/2022
- 419 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Cheng Zhang, "Development of Complex Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 4/4/2022
- 117 Roger Adams Lab
Melissa Lucero, UIUC, Final Defense, "Rational Design of Chemical Tools for In Vivo Applications Via Photoacoustic Imaging"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/4/2022
FINAL DEFENSE - Dayu Zhang (Martinis lab) - Exogenous Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibits Mouse Skeletal Muscle Differentiation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am 4/5/2022
- 213 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Nicholas Mason Wang , "Homogeneous Flow Catalysis for Lab-Scale Kinetic Investigation and Reaction Development"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/5/2022
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Baobin Li (UC Berkeley), "Mechanisms of pH sensory of the two-pore domain K+channel TASK2"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/5/2022
- CLSL B124
FINAL DEFENSE: Sean Meyer, UIUC, "Expanding the Potential of Gold Nanorods: From Size Effects to Intrinsic Anisotropy", Advisor: Cathy Murphy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/5/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Andrew Weller, University of York, "Reactivity and Dynamic Process in Solid-State Organometallic Chemistry: Who Needs a Solvent?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/5/2022
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Blake Ocampo, "Fundamentals and Modern Advances in Iron C-C Cross-Coupling"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:00 am 4/6/2022
- 171 Roger Adams Laboratory
Mr. Kendrich O Hatfield, UIUC Final Defense: Understanding the Interface: Probing Electrode Surfaces with Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/6/2022
FINAL DEFENSE: David Bianchi, UIUC, "Multi-scale Simulation of Dynamic Biochemical Reaction Networks in Living Cells", Advisor: Zaida Luthey-Schulten
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/6/2022
- 116 RAL
Rayeed Ihsan (Cronan lab) - “Initiation of Biotin Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/6/2022
- 116 RAL
Graeme Lindsey (Procko lab) - Designing Soluble Decoy Receptors Against Epstein-Barr Virus Using Host CD21 Receptor
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/7/2022
FINAL DEFENSE: Quan Lam (Lu Lab) - “Design and Structure-Activity Studies of Artificial Heme-Copper Oxidases.”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/7/2022
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Alexis Lower, "Microbes: the Future of Sustainable Fashion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/7/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Chem 585 Materials Literature Seminar: Jiayu Liu, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Supramolecular Polymer Networks: Hydrogels"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/7/2022
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Prof. Han Xiao, Rice University, "Bring the Power of Antibodies to the Bone"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/8/2022
Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vinayak Agarwal (Georgia Tech), "Looking back and building forward: natural product biosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/11/2022
- 279 Davenport Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Isamar Pastrana-Otero, "Development of single-cell Raman spectroscopy for noninvasively screening the differentiation of living stem and progenitor cells in biomaterial platforms for 2D and 3D cell culture"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/11/2022
- TBD
Canceled - 3M Lecture, Dr. Mike Wendland, 3M rep, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm 4/11/2022
- TBD
Canceled - 3M Lecture, Prof. Oren A. Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm 4/11/2022
- CLSL B102
Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm 4/11/2022
- CLSL B102
Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/12/2022
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. David Hibbitts, University of Florida, "Defining and Counting Reaction Site Requirements on Curved and Crowded Catalyst Surfaces""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/12/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/12/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Bailar Lecture: Professor Karen Goldberg, U. Penn., "Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/12/2022
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Danielle Loving, "Skeletal Surgery: Recent Advances in Molecular Editing Methodology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/13/2022
Prof. Justin Caram, UCLA, "Exploring the extremes of excitonic photophysics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/13/2022
- 116 RAL
Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller lab) - “Cryo-EM structure of teleost IgM core provides insights into polymeric immunoglobulin assembly”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/13/2022
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk lab) - “Exploring the Diverse Functions of LanCLs in Mammalian Systems”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/14/2022
- 217 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Zhenxiang Zhao, "Chemical Biology Approaches for Targeted Protein Aggregate Degradation in Alzheimer’s Disease via Autophagy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/15/2022
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Ailong Ke (Cornell University), "From High-resolution Mechanisms to Genome Editing Applications for Type I CRISPR-Cas (CRISPR-Cas3)"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/15/2022
- Loomis Lab 144
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Niall Mangan (McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University) "Data-driven construction and constraint of biological models"
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm 4/15/2022
- B102 Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)
Canceled: (New date TBD yet) Christopher Huck, UIUC, Final Defense, "Novel Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Terpenoids and Limonoids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/15/2022
Dr. Amir Hosseini, University of Utah Title: Reductive Oxidation of Alcohols and Mechanistic Studies with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/19/2022
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Aleksandra Skrajna (UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy), "Universal Principles of Nucleosome Recognition"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/19/2022
SACNAS Invited Lecture: Prof. Osvaldo Gutierriez, Texas A&M University, "Mechanistic-Driven Development of Fe-Catalyzed Multicomponent Cross Coupling Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/19/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
CANCELLED: Professor Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins, "Copper(I) Complex O2-Reactivity: Superoxo, Peroxo, Hydroperoxo and O-O Cleavage Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/20/2022
- CLSL B102
Prof. James McCusker, Michigan State University, "Tailoring the Photophysics of First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Applications in Light-to-Chemical Energy Conversion: Challenges and Opportunities"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm 4/20/2022
Alumni Career Panel: Chemistry & Beyond

Join us for a virtual panel with Chemistry at UIUC alumni, as they share about their experience and careers in energy storage, process R&D chemistry, and research administration. Registration is required.
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 4/20/2022
- 116 RAL
Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller lab) - “Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Fc Receptor-Like Molecules”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/20/2022
- 116 RAL
JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab) - FGD3, a Likely Mediator of Anticancer Drug Induced Necrotic Cell Death
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/21/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Chong Liu, UCLA, "Non-equilibrium chemical and biological systems with microscopic electrochemical control""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/22/2022
FINAL DEFENSE, Aastha Sharma, UIUC, "Ultrafast Carrier-Specific Dynamics of Organohalide Perovskites by Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy", Advisor: Joshua Vura-Weis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/22/2022
- B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Joint Biochemistry/MIP Seminar: Prof. Robert V. (Rob) Stahelin (Purdue University), "Lipid-dependent assembly and budding of emerging pathogens"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/25/2022
FINAL DEFENSE, Yusef Shari'ati, UIUC, "Ultrathin, Ultraviolet, Ultrafast: Cobalt Cubane at the M-Edge", Advisor: Joshua Vura-Weis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/26/2022
- 116
CHBE Distinguished Michael O'Laughlin Lecture, Professor T. Alan Hatton, MIT, "Electrochemical Modulation of Sorbents for Selective CO2 Separation Processes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/26/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins, "The Activation of Dioxygen at Heme and Nonheme Iron Centers: Fe(O2), Fe(O), and Fe(OH) Species and Their Roles in Oxidative Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/26/2022
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Robert Serrano, "Copper Photocatalysis: Inception and Current Efforts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:30 am 4/27/2022
- 116 RAL
Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) - "Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Probe Protein-Lipid Interactions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am 4/27/2022
- 4269 Beckman Institute
FINAL DEFENSE, Edward Robert Jira , "AUTOMATED CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS FOR ACCELERATED DISCOVERY OF ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/27/2022
- 116 RAL
Christopher Hawk (Jin lab) - “Roles of conserved DRG factors in maintaining efficient translation in eukaryotes”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/28/2022
Dr. Nicole Honesty, Solestial, "Adventures in the Fab: From High-Volume Manufacturing to Tech Start-up"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/28/2022
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Smaranda Marinescu, University of Southern California, "Biologically Inspired Coordination Complexes and Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/28/2022
Professor Lou Charkoudian, Haverford College, "Unveiling the molecular underpinnings of natural product biosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/28/2022
- IGB 612/614
Prof. Robert Paton, Colorado State, "Harnessing QM and ML to Predict Open-shell Reactivity and Stability"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/29/2022
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Chu-Young Kim (The University of Texas at El Paso), "Using cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography in tandem to decipher enzyme mechanisms"
- Seminar/Symposium