UIUC Biophysics and Related Seminars

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00   8:00 p.m.
  • Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

  CHBE 121 Poster Session

  Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.

  • Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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  • 3:30 pm
  • I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center

  Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture in Genomics

  "The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 321 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

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  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogels for Drug Release Applications in Wound Healing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

  Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

  "Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 - 5:45 pm
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Meeting