Seminars of Interest

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 7:00 pm
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:15 pm
- B102 CLSL
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials: PCET stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics for molecules and materials: from slow to ultrafast"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- South Lounge, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana
Investiture of Professor Christy Landes and Professor Stephan Link

Join the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for the investiture of Christy Landes as the Jerry A. Walker Chair in Chemistry and the investiture of Stephan Link as the Charles W. and Genevieve M. Walton Professor in Chemistry.
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "Dynamics of a type of gene expression hot zone relative to nuclear speckles"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Dr. Derek Dalton, Genentech, "Inspiration from Industry: Applications of Machine Learning and Catalysis Insights to Define a Process Route for GDC-9918"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Matthew D. Shoulders, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Proteostasis, Evolution, and Viruses"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 1005 Beckman Institute
Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic

This workshop sponsored by Beckman Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and Cancer Center at Illinois will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty and become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois.
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:30 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of D-Amino Acid Biosensing"
- Seminar/Symposium