Campus-Wide Seminar Listings
Monday, January 25
Material Sciences and Engineering, Special Seminar
Lauren Zarzar
Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
Dynamic soft materials: Gels, bubbles, and drops
10:00 AM, 280 Materials Research Lab
Cell and Developmental Biology, Student & Postdoc Seminar
Dr. Melanie Issigonis
University of Illinois
Germ cell development in planarians
12:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Materials Chemistry
Dr. Frank Leibfarth
MIT
New Methods for the Synthesis of Functional Polymeric Materials
12:00 PM, Location TBA
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
Assistant Professor Peter Freddolino
Biological Chemistry Department
University of Michigan
Building a comprehensive picture of the nucleic acid interactome of E. Coli
3:00 PM, 2369 Beckman Institute
Entomology
Jason Robinson
Illinois Natural History Survey – University of Illinois
Old ideas and new tools for studying regional aquatic insect faunas: discovery, conservation and
biogeography
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Material Sciences and Engineering
Matthew Tirrell
The Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago
Polyelectrolytes in multivalent ionic media: New physics and new materials
4:00 PM, 100 Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday, January 26
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (BCXT)
Jack A Gilbert, PhD
Argonne National Laboratory
Invisible Influence: Exploring the Human Microbiome
12:00 PM, 612 IGB Conference Center
Physical Chemistry, Seminar of Special Interest
Dr. Bin Zhang
Rice University
Understanding Sequence-structure-function Relationships of the Genome
2:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Neuroscience Program
First Year Project Presentations
A Milestone & An Enlightening Experience
3:00 PM, 1005 Beckman Institute
Materials Science and Engineering, Soft Materials
Bryce Thurston – University of Illinois – TBA
Hanze Ying – University of Illinois – TBA
Jaeuk (Jay) Sung – University of Illinois - TBA
4:00 PM, 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
Wednesday, January 27
PMPB, CPSC 598/IB513
Diwakar Shukla
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois
Using the “Computational Microscope” for Obtaining insights into the Dynamic Modulation of Cellular
Signaling
12:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Physical Chemistry
Professor Brooks Pate
University of Virginia
Broadband Molecular Rotational Spectroscopy for Astro-chemistry, Chemical Reaction Dynamics, and
Molecular Structure
2:00 PM, Charles G. Miller, B102 CLSL
PEEC
Dr. Mark Kronforst
University of Chicago
The genetics of butterfly mimicry and migration
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Graduate Seminar
EZ Ellis
University of Illinois
Sterol Homeostasis and its Effect on Vacuolar Fission
Ziqiao Ding
University of Illinois
Characterization of D-proton channel in A2-type cytochrome oxidase of Thermus thermophilus
4:00PM, 116 RAL
Thursday, January 28
Crop Sciences
Carrie Butts-Wilmsmeyer, Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois
Improving the Nutritional quality of Maize-Based Food Products
12:00 PM, W109 Turner Hall
Microbiology
Dr. Joshua Woodward
University of Washington
Eavesdropping on Bacterial Conversations: Deciphering the mechanisms of c-di-AMP mediated hostmicrobe interactions
4:00 PM, Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Material Sciences and Engineering, Hard Materials
Elizabeth Pogue – University of Illinois - TBA
Ella Pek – University of Illinois – TBA
4:00 PM, 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
Friday, January 29
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Michael Stambaugh
Department of Forestry, University of Missouri
Landscape Ecology
3:00 PM, W-109 Turner Hall
Analytical Chemistry
Professor Steve Weber
University of Pittsburgh
Design and application of analytical measurement systems for understanding neurochemical processes:
Use of electro osmosis in brain tissue for the determination of ectopeptidase activity and fast, capillary
liquid chromatography for online measurements of neurotransmitters
4:00 PM, 116 RAL