Campus-Wide Seminar Listing
Monday, November 2
Cell and Developmental Biology, Student & Postdoc
Keaton Schuster
University of Illinois
The Genetic Control of Cell Fate and Patterning During Imaginal Disc Regeneration
Dr. Jayhun Lee
University of Illinois
Under the skin: exploring the developmental transition underlying parasite cloaking of
Schistosoma
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Pilgyu Kang, Post-doc Associate
University of Illinois
Bio-Nanophotonic Technology and Hybrid Systems Integrated with Two-Dimensional
Materials
12:00 PM, 2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab
Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
Greg Rohrer
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Polar surface domains and their impact on photochemical reactivity
4:00 PM, 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
Inorganic Chemistry
2015 Bailar Lecture
Professor Fraser Armstrong
Oxford University
The Importance of Metalloenzymes for Advancing Electrocatalysis
8:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Tuesday, November 3
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, (ReBTE)
Eben Alsberg, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Biomaterial Systems with Controlled Temporal and Spatial Signal Presentation for
Regulating Stem Cel Behavior and Tissue Engineering
12:00 PM, 612 IGB Conference Center
Physical Chemistry, Final Defense
Mr. Marcus Tuttle
University of Illinois
Solid-State NMR Studies of α-Synuclein Fibril Structure
1:00 PM, 171 RAL
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Paddy Woodworth
Author, Journalist and Lecturer
Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Gardens
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University College Dublin
Ecological restoration: Key conservation strategy or nostalgic anachronism in our climate
change century?
3:00 PM, Monsanto Room, ACES Library
Material Science, Soft Material
Tae Wook Lim – University of Illinois - Timed release of battery additives for enhanced
performance of lithium-ion batteries
Ke Yang – University of Illinois - TBA
Yu Hao Howard Liu – University of Illinois - Epidermal stimulation system
4:00 PM, 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
Organic Chemistry, Final Defense
Mr. Rob Hicklin
University of Illinois
Chemical diversification of the natural products quinine, abietic acid, and pleuromutilin by
ring distortion
3:30 PM, B126 CLSL
Inorganic Chemistry
2015 Bailar Lecture
Professor Fraser Armstrong
Oxford University
The Chemical Principles of Biohydrogen
4:00 PM, 116 RAL
Wednesday, November 4
PMPB, CPSC 598/IB 513
Tong Geon Lee
University of Illinois
Copy number variation at Rhg1, a novel weapon in soybean’s arsenal against soybean cyst
nematode
12:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Biochemistry, Final Defense
Yue Hao
University of Illinois
Structural and Biochemical Studies on Tailoring Enzymes Involved in Ribosomal Peptides
Biosynthesis
2:00 PM, 314A, RAL
Physical Chemistry
Professor Keith Nelson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy of All Phases of Matter
2:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Nutritional Sciences 500, Theme: Impact of Nutrition on Physiology
Aditi Das
Assistance Professor
TBA
4:00 PM, 180 Bevier Hall
PEEC
Michael Nachman
The Genetic Basis of Adaptation and Speciation in House Mice
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry
Dr. Brian Baker
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Structural biophysics of Molecular Recognition in Cellular Immunity
4:00 PM, 116 RAL
Thursday, November 5
Bioengineering
Danielle Benoit, Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Approaches for Bone Regeneration
12:00 PM, 2240 DCL
Crop Sciences
Cody Evans
University of Illinois
Characterization of a novel five way resistant population of waterhemp (Amaranthus
tuberculatus)
12:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Chemical Biology, Literature Seminar
Mr. Ryan Lake
University of Illinois
A Geneticist’s “Junk” is a Chemical Biologist’s Treasure: The Development of
Transposons into Useful Biological Tools
12:00 PM, 163 Noyes Lab
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
An International Paper Company Lecture Series
Professor Zhihong Nie
University of Maryland
In How Far Can We Make Nanoparticles Mimic Molecules?
2:00 PM, 116 RAL
Microbiology
Dr. Sarah Ades
Penn State University
Pushing the Envelope Regulation, Role and Inhibition of the E. coli SigmaE-dependent
Extracytoplasmic Stress Response
4:00 PM, Charles Ge. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Materials Science, Hard Materials
Gregory Kutyla – University of Illinois - Alumina platelet reinforcement for castable
refractory geopolymer composites
Qiye Zheng – University of Illinois - High temperature thermal conductivity of VNx
epitaxial layers grown by reactive magnetron sputter deposition
Organic Chemistry, Literature
Ms. Emma Southgate
University of Illinois
Development of the Asymmetric Kinugasa Reactions
4:00 PM, 116 RAL
Inorganic Chemistry, Literature
Elena Montoto Blanco
University of Illinois
Gold Nanoparticles for Stimuli-Responsive Aggregate Assembly
Kimberly Lundberg
University of Illinois
Nano- and Micromotors: Movers and Shakers of the Nano-Domain
4:00 PM, 217 Noyes Lab
Friday, November 6
Biochemistry
Dr. Ning Sun
Senior Scientist at AbbVie
2014 Biochemistry Trust of Urbana Award Recipient
Dawn of Genome Engineering: Development of TALEN and CRISPR for Human
Therapeutics
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biological Physics
Dr. Olivier Rivoire
National Center for Scientific research
TBA
2:00 PM, 144 Loomis Lab
Physical Chemistry, Final Defense
Ms. Tuseeta Banerjee
University of Illinois
Path Integral Methods for Condensed Phase Applications
2:00 PM, 532 Morrill Hall