Seminars of Interest

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Dr. William P. Gallagher, BMS, "Adventures in the Synthesis of a Complex Pharmaceutical Candidate Enabled by Novel Reactions"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture w/Professor Brian Blagg, University of Notre Dame, "Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Rediscovery of Hsp90 Inhibitors"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Room, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Pioneers Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, "Directional Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Accumulation Using Copper Photosensitizers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • English Building 160

  FINAL DEFENSE: Nafisa Ibrahim "Systematic Study of Redox-Active Polymers for Energy Storage: Exploring Structural Modulation, Electrolyte Interactions and Programmable Degradation" Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

  Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"

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

  Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"

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

  Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• 

  • 9:00 am
  • 419 RAL (Rose Room)

  Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ceilia Leso, UIUC, "Environmental Spies: Genetically Encoded Plant Biosensors and their Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Fuson Student Talks: Youran Luo, UIUC, "Investigation of Lanthionine Synthase-Catalyzed Thio-Michael Addition"; Matthew Albritton, UIUC, "Development and Mechanistic Investigation of an Aqueous, Indium-Catalyzed Allylation of Native Carbohydrates Using Allylboronate Esters"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

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

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • Beckman 2269

  FINAL DEFENSE: David Friday "COMPUTATIONAL AND MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS FOR INSIGHTS INTO CONJUGATED MATERIALS", Advisor: Nick Jackson

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

  Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "Innovating in – and learning from – battery science to address challenges in electrochemistry"

  • Seminar/Symposium