Calendar Events

Q&A with "Picture A Scientist" Director

https://www.igb.illinois.edu/webform/picture_a_scientist_rsvp

Microbiology Abigail Salyers Distinguished Early Career Researcher Seminar: Tara Essock-Burns, University of Hawaii -- "How microbe-host dialogue shapes the neighborhood: spatial transcriptomic tools to study tissue microbiogeography"

Molecular & Integrative Physiology Student Seminar: Hashni Vidana Gamage (E. Nelson Lab) and Simon Lizarazo Chaparro (Tsai Lab)

https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Hailun Zhu

Via Zoom

Building Breakthrough Genomics Startups

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82804724888?pwd=ZnFncjNnVFNzeTIzMHBHTXdadzJwUT09

Westcott Biosciences Fellow: Andrea Hernandez Garcia (Nair lab) - "Structure of a Class III Lanthipeptide Synthetase: A Protein Kinase Fold Adapted for Antibiotic Biosynthesis"

116 RAL

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez, Yale University -- "Evolutionary Engineering of Microbial Consortia"

17th Annual Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium, Pam Silver, Ph.D., Duke University, title "Designing Biology for Health and Sustainability"

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neha Chivukula Venkata

Via Zoom

"Exploitable and context-specific astrocyte mechanisms," byXinzhu Yu, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Beckman Institute

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83566081431?pwd=VllERlduN0hrUUYzQ1p0YTk2U2xKZz09

Darjan Duraki (Shapiro lab)

116 RAL

Molecular & Integrative Physiology Seminar: Dr. Todd Fiacco, University of California Riverside

https://go.illinois.edu/mip-seminars

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michelle Reniere, University of Washington -- "Investigating both the host and bacterial factors involved in Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis"

Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wilfried Weber (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies), “TBA"

Contact Department for Zoom Link

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jesus Moreno Castillo

Via Zoom

Dr. Eugenia Trushina, Mayo Clinic, "TBD"

116 RAL

"Prenatal Environmental Stressors Impair Postnatal Microglia Function and Adult Behavior in Male Mice," by Staci Bilbo, PhD, Haley Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Professor of Neurobiology and Cell Biology, Duke University

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83566081431?pwd=VllERlduN0hrUUYzQ1p0YTk2U2xKZz09

Qi Zou (Cronan)

116 RAL

Molecular & Integrative Physiology, C. Ladd Prosser Endowed Lecture Series: Dr. Carla Shatz, Standford University,

Professor Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, "TBD"

116 RAL

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Josh Blodgett (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology), “TBA"

Contact Department for Zoom Link

Microbiology Student Seminar: Ashika Gupta/Imlay Lab and Ami Seeger/Blanke Lab

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Huaxun Fan (Zhang)

116 RAL

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nichole Klatt, University of Minnesota -- "TBA"

Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Kenneth Matreyek (Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology), “Harnessing multiplex genetic assays for the quantitative understanding of protein sequence - function in mammalian cells"

Contact Department for Zoom Link

"Understanding the Social Brain," by Weizhe Hong, Department of Biological Chemistry and Department of Neurobiology University of California, Los Angeles

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83566081431?pwd=VllERlduN0hrUUYzQ1p0YTk2U2xKZz09

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Pierre McCrea, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Via Zoom

Christopher Hawk (Jin lab)

116 RAL

Molecular & Integrative Physiology Seminar: Dr. Aras Mattis, University of California San Francisco

"Stress-induced acetylcholine signaling in the hippocampus: too much of a good thing?," by Marina Picciotto, Charles BG Murphy Professor in Psychiatry, Deputy Chair for Basic Science, Professor of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology, Yale University

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83566081431?pwd=VllERlduN0hrUUYzQ1p0YTk2U2xKZz09

Junya Li (Kalsotra lab)

116 RAL

Molecular & Integrative Physiology Seminar: Dr. Michelle L. Olsen, Virginia Tech

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wenjing Wang (University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry), “Designing molecular sensors and tools for studying brain signaling"

B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Sneha Das/Kuzminov Lab and Sangeetha Ramesh/Mitchell Lab

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Kisurb Choe (Sweedler lab)

116 RAL

Microbiology Thesis Defense: Alex Phillips -- Whitaker Lab

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Katie Berry, Mount Holyoke College -- "TBA"

Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana

Thanksgiving Break Begins

Thanksgiving Day

Day After Thanksgiving - Designated Holiday

Instruction resumes

Microbiology Student Seminar: Molly Crowder/Blanke Lab and Stefanie Eben/Imlay Lab

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Recny Fellow: Santanu Ghosh (Shapiro lab)

116 RAL

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. John Rawls, Duke University -- "Integrative physiology of host-microbiome interactions in the vertebrate digestive tract"

Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program and Dept. of Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Erin Adams (The University of Chicago) "TBA"

B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Katie Frye/Kehl-Fie Lab and Roy Rodriguez Carrero/Metcalf Lab

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

Yanheng Chen (Chen)

116 RAL

Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

Final Exams Begin

First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

Gift Day

Christmas Holiday (observed)

Day after Christmas - Designated Holiday

Gift day

Gift day

Gift day

New Year's Day (observed)

Final Exams - Winter Session

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Gabriela Hernandez Gonzalez

Via Zoom

Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab)

116 RAL

Professor Laura Kiessling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "TBD"

PENDING VIRTUAL VS. IN-PERSON

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Allison Boss-Kennedy

Via Zoom

Zack Dewald (Kalsotra lab)

116 RAL

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Miles Norsworthy

Via Zoom

Issac Kim (Martinis lab)

116 RAL

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Divyanshi

Via Zoom

Xiaodan Lin (Martinis lab)

116 RAL

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Gerton, University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL