College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 10/07/2025
- Chem Annex 1024
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, "Exploring and Engineering Iron Enzymes", Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 5:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Farm Aid Talk-Global Harvest: Mapping the Histories of Illinois Farms by Professor Kristin Hoganson

Drawing on her recent book, The Heartland (an NPR best book of the year), Hoganson challenges perceptions of the rural Midwest as quintessentially local prior to World War I. Her starting point is Champaign County, but the stories she has uncovered are surprisingly global in scope.
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Oleg Prezhdo, University of New Mexico, "Quantum Dynamics in Optoelectronic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Canran Deng (M. Gillette Lab) "Temporal Dynamics of Circadian Rhythms and Permeability in Human iPSC-Derived Brain Endothelial Cells" & Zihuan Lin (Raetzman Lab) "Epigenetic factor Arid2 contributes to pituitary development and congenital hypopituitarism pathogenesis."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Frank Zhang CHEM 575 Seminar: Bioremediation 3.0: A Brave New Paradigm
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B102
Prof. Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University, "Structure and mechanisms of subtype-specific binding and allosteric modulation in GABAA receptors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kimberly Seed, University of California - Berkeley -- "Fighting with phages: how Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Diego Benning Wang, "Epic Indigenization: Literature and Nation on the Soviet–Finnish Borders under Stalinism."
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
- Hundley Central Core Gallery, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Farm Aid Karaoke

So, you think you can sing? Now’s your chance to get behind the mic. Sign up on arrival to sing songs performed during and inspired by Farm Aid concerts. JJ from Nowhere Karaoke is hosting this fun-filled evening. Admission is free and all are welcome.
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Arnold Mathijssen (University of Pennsylvania) - "Rheotaxis: Invasion of bacteria swimming upstream into microstructured devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Literature Seminar, "Advanced Methods for the Detection of Potential Bioterrorism Agent Ricin”, Tyler Bechard
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Literature Seminar, “Fast and Reliable Analytical Tools for Drug Detection in Time Sensitive Forensic Toxicology”, Zayne Carney
- Seminar/Symposium