Seminars of Interest

The Office of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate in the Chemical Sciences Fall 2023 Seminar Series Schedule

Office of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate in the Chemical Sciences Seminar Series

12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/1/2023

Noyes Lab 217

Seminar/Symposium

Tung Le, UIUC, Final Defense, "Application of a Substrate-Tolerant Lanthipeptide Synthetase in Bioengineering Peptide Natural Products”

1:30 pm 9/1/2023

B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

G. F. Smith Lecture Professor Hector Abruna, Cornell University Title: Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods

4:00 pm 9/1/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Carl Brozek, University of Oregon, "Giant Redox Entropy and Dynamic Bonding in Nanoscale MOFs" (I)

3:30 pm 9/5/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Johnna S. Temenoff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Kong), "Biomaterials to Promote Expansion and Function of Marrow Stromal Cells"

2:00 pm 9/7/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Aaron Leconte, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges, "Leveraging Evolution and Biochemistry to Build Better Enzymes: High-Throughput Research at an Undergraduate Institution"

4:00 pm 9/8/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

GSAC Welcome Picnic

5:30 - 8:30 pm 9/8/2023

Lake House at Crystal Lake Park, Urbana, IL

Ceremony/Service

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. William E. Mustain, University of South Carolina (host: Yang), "New Materials vs. Reaction Engineering in Electrochemical Systems: Understanding Performance and Durability in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers"

2:00 pm 9/12/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Emily Day, University of Delaware, "Transforming Disease Management with High Precision Nanomedicines"

3:30 pm 9/12/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Kwabena Bediako, University of California-Berkeley, "Defects and Disorder in Superlattices: New Twists in 2D Materials"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/13/2023

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Catalytic Performance Descriptors: An Atomic-scale Perspective" (host: Mironenko))

2:00 pm 9/14/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Ken Suslick, "Seminar on Seminars"

3:30 - 4:30 pm 9/14/2023

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Raymond Moellering, University of Chicago, "Building Up and Breaking Down Oncogenic Protein Social Networks with Synthetic Biologic Platforms"

4:00 pm 9/14/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Changwoo Park - Walter Klemperer Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Allerton Conference

8:30 am 9/16/2023

Allerton Park and Retreat Center

Conference/Workshop

Klaus Schulten Distinguished Speaker Series in Biological Physics: Professor Rommie E. Amaro, University of California, San Diego, "In Situ Computational Microscopy of Viruses"

4:00 pm 9/18/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Klaus Schulten Distinguished Speaker Series in Biological Physics: Professor Rommie E. Amaro, University of California, San Diego, "In Situ Computational Microscopy of Viruses"

4:00 pm 9/18/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

NMR Lab Walking Tour (Speaker: Dr. Dean Olson, Director, NMR Lab)

2:00 - 2:50 pm 9/20/2023

A133 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory (CLSL)

Informational

Professor Prashant Jain, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Holes in the LK-99 Story"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/20/2023

CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Yannan Tian (Huang) - "Structural basis of ribosomal repair and DNA degradation"

4:00 pm 9/20/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller) -

4:00 pm 9/20/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Office of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate in the Chemical Sciences Seminar Series

5:30 - 6:30 pm 9/20/2023

Noyes Lab 217

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Christina Woo, Harvard University, "Reading and Rewriting Protein Modifications in Cells"

4:00 pm 9/21/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Minjoung Kyoung (UTRGV Physics) "Functional regulation of 4D metabolic network between multienzyme glucosome condensates and mitochondria"

1:30 pm 9/25/2023

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Lecture

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco, "Drugging Undruggable Targets in Oncology"

4:00 pm 9/25/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco, "Drugging Undruggable Targets in Oncology"

4:00 pm 9/25/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Shikha Nangia, Syracuse University, "Engineering Pathways Across Biological Barriers: Treating Alzheimer's Disease" (host: Shukla)

2:00 pm 9/26/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco, "Leveraging Tumor Suppressors and the Immune System to Attack Cancer"

4:00 pm 9/26/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco, "Leveraging Tumor Suppressors and the Immune System to Attack Cancer"

4:00 pm 9/26/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Lea Nienhaus, Florida State University, "Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/27/2023

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Carlos Morales-Guio, UCLA, "Towards Understanding the Role of Transport in Electrocatalysis: The Role of Dimensionless Analysis and Multi-scale Modeling" (host: Kenis)

2:00 pm 9/28/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

I-ChEM - Illinois Chemistry Experience for Minorities

10:00 am - 12:30 pm 9/30/2023

Informational