Campus-Wide Seminar Listings
Monday, November 30
Cell and Developmental Biology Student & Postdoc
Phillip Kenny – University of Illinois - FMRP's dual role in modulating translational
regulation through the microRNA pathway
Yuan Tian, University of Illinois - Investigating the role of chromatin modifiers in tissue
regeneration
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry, Final Defense
Sophi Yi
University of Illinois
Quinol Activity of cyt aa3-600 Menaquinol Oxidase from Bacillus subtilis characterized by
Biochemical and EPR Methods
12:30 PM, RAL
Entomology Colloquium
Kirk Anderson
USDA-ARS
Tucson, Arizona
Honey bee hive microbiota: Held close or kept at arm's length?
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
Sam Padilla
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of Illinois
Ethics Panel Discussion
4:00 PM, 100 Material Science and Engineering Building
Tuesday, December 1
Biochemistry, Final Defense
Peiwen Wu
University of Illinois
DNAzymes as Intracellular Sensors for Metal Ion Imaging and their Structural
Characterization
10:00 AM, 314A RAL
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, (GNDP)
Xiaoxia Cui, PhD
Vice President of Research and Development
Sage Lab
Genome Engineering using Programmable Nucleases
12:00 PM, 612 IGB Conference Center
Organic Chemistry
Ms. Carrie Levinn
University of Illinois
The First, the Good, and the Best? 25 Years of Ingenol Synthesis
4:00 PM, 116 RAL
Wednesday, December 2
Pathobiology
Mark Ackermann, DVM, PhD
Diplomate ACVP
Immune responses and therapies to human strains of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in
newborn lung: A model in lambs for human infants
12:00 PM, 2506 VMBSB
Cell & Developmental Biology
Dr. Valentina Greco
Yale School of Medicine
Principles of Skin regeneration, repair and cancer by live imaging
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
PMPB
Dr. Heidi Appel
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Missouri
Plants Sensing Danger: The surprising role of vibration detection
12:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Department of Bioengineering
Qun Chen, PhD
CEO of United Imaging, Shanghai
The Challenges and Opportunities of Medical Imaging in China and Other Developing
Countries
2:00 PM, 1122 NCSA
PEEC
Bethany Rader
University of Illinois
TBA
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Nutritional Sciences 500, Theme: The Impact of Nutrition on Physiology
Hannah Holscher
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
University of Illinois
The Impact of Diet on the Gastrointestinal Microbiome
4:00 PM, 180 Bevier Hall
Thursday, December 3
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Ormand MacDougald, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Development, endocrine functions, and metabolism of marrow adipose tissues
11:00 AM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Crop Sciences
Lillian Brzostowski
University of Illinois
Stacking Resistance Alleles from Multiple Sources to Improve Resistance to Soybean Cyst
Nematode
12:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Chemical Biology, Literature
Mr. Xiao Rui Guo
University of Illinois
Mechanics of the Cell Membrane: Understanding Lipid Flippases
12:00 PM, 163 Noyes Lab
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, International Paper Company Lecture Series
Professor Wonhwa Cho
In situ Quantitative Imaging Reveals New Regulatory Roles of Lipids: A Cholesterol Story
Never Told Before
2:00 PM, 116 RAL
Microbiology
Dr. Michael Laub
Massachusetts Institution of Technology
Specificity and Evolution of Protein-Protein Interactions
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Organic Chemistry, Aldrich Lecture
Professor Timothy Jamison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Synthesis Design Through the Lens of Flow Chemistry
4:00 PM, 116 RAL
Friday, December 4
Biochemistry
Dr. Kun Ping Lu
Harvard Medical School
The isomerase Pin1 in cancer and Alzheimer’s from gene to drug discovery
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL