Bio 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
- 1:30 pm
- Everitt 1103
Final Defense - PhD - Shraddha Shirguppe
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
Lecture by Chulhong Kim, Ph.D.
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 8:00 - 9:30 am
- Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)
Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast

Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 8 at the Illinois Conference Center.
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 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

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1030
Extracting Mechanisms of Cell Cross Talk in Pancreatic Cancer Using Big Data

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- 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
- Beckman 2269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Jaena Park
- Other
- 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 - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Dysregulated RAS Signaling in Cancer and Developmental Disorders: New Therapeutic Opportunities and Insights

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Vision and Spirit, and Staff Spirit and Dedication Awards presentation

Join Beckman Director Steve Maren in the Beckman center atrium for the annual presentation of two Beckman awards: the Vision and Spirit Award, and the Staff Spirit and Dedication Award. Cupcakes will follow in celebration of the anniversary of Arnold Beckman's birth, April 10.
- Ceremony/Service
- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.
- 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
- 12:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Xi Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center, "Stress Management in Therapy-Resistant Cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive
Data + AI User Group - April

Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, April 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd floor tower room)
STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar: Bernhard Palsson

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego, will lecture on "What are iModulons?"
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 3:30 pm
- EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign
EnterpriseWorks Tour

Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 3 p.m., join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of the different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.
- Reception/Open House