School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Monday, November 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Unlocking the Hidden Proteome

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman

12:00 pm

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "Repurposing an FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, to Enable Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - “Exploring the antiviral functions and engineering potential of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University, "Making it Stick: Applications of Covalent Activity Based Probes"

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Health and Kinesiology/UIUC -- "From Fermentation to Function: Harnessing Microbial Amino Acid Metabolism in Fermented Foods to Enhance Human Immunity"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Fall break begins

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service