UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology

Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 433 RAL
Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics, neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:00 am
- 319 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "The hidden role of eosinophils during Bordetella spp. infections"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 9:30 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- Seminar/Symposium

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