Events

Mar 20 2018

Ecological Consequences of Extirpation of Land Birds by the Invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor
Apr 5 2018

Spring Symposium in Neuroscience: Combating addiction: Novel insights into therapeutic targets

Thursday, 10:00 am–1:00 pm
Student Center East, 750 South Halsted, Cardinal Room
Apr 10 2018

Evolution in Action to Generate Essential Gametogenesis Functions under Sexual Conflict

Tuesday, 10:00 am–11:30 am
Apr 17 2018

Hadley Talks Part 2

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL, 840 West Taylor St.
Apr 17 2018

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 24 2018

MCDB Seminar: Establishment and Maintenance of Early Embryonic Chromatin Structure

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Apr 26 2018

LIN Faculty meeting

Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Apr 26 2018

Graduate Recognition Day

Thursday, 3:30 pm–4:30 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 30 2018

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Monday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
MBRB
May 1 2018

Undergraduate Awards Day

Tuesday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Student Center East Room 302,750 South Halsted
Aug 24 2018

BIOS Picnic

Friday, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
Greenhouse
Sep 5 2018

LIN Seminar: Large scale brain mapping at national lab by Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago (Please note different day)

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 11 2018

E&E Seminar: Mycorrhizal dispersal – theoretical and experimental approaches for predicting community structure by Bala Chaudhary, DePaul University

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 14 2018

BIOS Seminar: Arogenate dehydratase3 and Pirin1 are critical regulators of early seedling establishment and building defense in Arabidopsis thaliana by Dr. Katherine Warpeha, UIC Biological Sciences

Friday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 18 2018

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 20 2018

MCDB Seminar: Imaging across spatiotemporal scales with custom-built light microscopes by Reto Fiolka, University of Texas Southwestern

Thursday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Sep 25 2018

E&E Seminar: Figs, pollinators, and parasites: co-diversification in deep and shallow time, John D. Nason, Iowa State University

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 25 2018

Department of Psychiatry’s Annual Research Forum AKA Extravaganza!

Tuesday, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
Sep 27 2018

LIN Seminar: From Breathing to Behavior: Integrative Consequences of Intermittent Hypoxia in the Brain by Alfredo J. Garcia III, University of Chicago

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 9 2018

E&E Seminar: Using short- and long-term forest responses to past climate to better plan for the future by Christine Rollinson, Morton Arboretum

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 9 2018

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 11 2018

LIN Seminar: The Perception-Cognition Border: An Architectural Approach by E.J. Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 23 2018

E&E Seminar: Fungi in Ecosystem Processes by John Dighton, Rutgers University (John Lussenhop Memorial Talk)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 25 2018

LIN Seminar: Harnessing the Therapeutic Potential of the Endocannabinoid Signaling System to Suppress Neuropathic Pain by Andrea Hohmann, Indiana University Bloomington

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 26 2018

Affiliated Seminar: Neuroscience Day 2018: Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease By Graham Collingridge

Friday, 2:00 pm–5:30 pm
SPH/PI Building School of Public Health & Psychiatric Institute Room 109
Nov 6 2018

E&E Seminar: Conservation Mycology: Old Challenges and New Opportunities for Conserving Members of Kingdom Fungi by Gregory M. Mueller, Chicago Botanic Garden

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 13 2018

E&E Seminar: Transgenerational and behavioral plasticity at the molecular level in threespine stickleback by Alison Bell, University of Illinois

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Nov 15 2018

LIN Seminar: Regulation of neural cell fate and function by sterol homeostasis

Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Nov 15 2018

LIN Seminar: Regulation of neural cell fate and function by sterol homeostasis, Kevin Francis, Sanford Health

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 27 2018

E&E Seminar: Linking C and N cycling hotspots to stream nitrate export in a northern hardwood forest by Linda Pardo, U.S. Forest Service

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 28 2018

Cancelled: Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Neuroscience Seminar by Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Cardinal Room, Student Center East
Nov 29 2018

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Vacant and verdant: examining Chicago's vacant lots as a socio-ecological system, Elsa Anderson

Thursday, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
4289 SEL
Dec 3 2018

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Assessing the Recovery Trajectory of Restored Plant Communities, Brook Herman

Monday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Dec 3 2018

E&E Disseration Seminar: Assessing the Recovery Trajectory of Restored Plant Communities, Brook Herman

Monday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Jan 25 2019

E&E PhD Disseration Seminar: Biogeography, Diversification, and Domestication in the Coca Family (Erythroxylaceae), Dawson White

Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Jan 28 2019

Functional assembly of membraneless RNA-protein organelles by Alexey Arkov, Professor of Biological Sciences, Murray State University

Monday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB, Room 4300
Jan 29 2019

E&E Seminar: Restoring soil habitats to rebuild biodiversity and ecosystem services by Dr. Elizabeth Bach, The Nature Conservancy

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SEL 4289, 840 West Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607
Feb 19 2019

MCDB Seminar: Strategies of Invasion: Lessons From the Embryonic Neural Crest, Paul Kulesa, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB Auditorium (Room 1017)
Feb 19 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Improvements to simulating the carbon cycle in land surface models, Beth Drewniak

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 26 2019

E&E Seminar: Hadley Talks 1

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 28 2019

Affiliated Event: Annual Neuroscience Graduate Research Symposium

Thursday, 10:00 am–4:00 pm
5175 COMRB
Mar 5 2019

E&E Seminar: Hadley Talks 2

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 11 2019

E&E Masters Seminar: Influences of aquaculture additives on the larval sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) skin microbiome, Emily Dodd

Monday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 12 2019

E&E Seminar: Microbial community dynamics in anaerobically disinfested soil by Amisha Poret-Peterson, University of California, Davis

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 13 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Competition across Three Eco-Evolutionary Scales by Abdel Halloway

Wednesday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
4289 SEL
Mar 14 2019

LIN Seminar: Nitric Oxide in the Retina, Gregory Schwartz, Northwestern University

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 15 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Phylogenomic systematics of lobariod lichens: diversification and population genetics, Todd Widhelm

Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Mar 19 2019

MCDB Seminar: Assembly, Properties and Functions of Mammalian Stress Granules, Pavel Ivanov, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
MBRB Auditorium (Room 1017)
Apr 2 2019

E&E Seminar: From cacti to carnivorous plants: using functional phylogenomic tools to explore gene and genome duplication, reticulate evolution, and biochemistry in the plant order Caryophyllales by Ya Yang, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 4 2019

LIN Seminar:Niemann-Pick Type C disease reveals link between lysosomal cholesterol, neuronal excitability, and synaptic plasticity By Eamonn Dickson, University of California, Davis

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 9 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Reproductive Biology and Ecological Genetics of Three Prairie Forbs by Eun Sun Kim

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 10 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Soil microbial community responses to changing environments by Michael Ricketts

Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 11 2019

LIN Seminar: Unraveling the Neurochemical Mechanisms of Chemobrain, Michael A. Johnson, University of Kansas

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 18 2019

Spring Symposium in Neuroscience: Glymphatic Exchange in the Aging Brain: Sleep, Waste, and Neurodegeneration at the Crossroads of the CNS by Jeff Iliff, University of Washington

Thursday, 9:00 am–12:00 pm
Room 302, Student Center East
Apr 25 2019

LIN Seminar: Careers in Neuroscience: How STEM disciplines prepare you to start and run a company, Garry Cooper, Rheaply

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 30 2019

E&E Seminar: Diversification and biogeography of middle American fishes, Caleb McMahan, Field Museum

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
May 1 2019

Undergraduate Awards Day

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Room 302, Student Center East
May 7 2019

E&E PhD Dissertation Seminar: Self-incompatibility and biosystematics in the wild Chilean tomato group (solanum sect. lycopersicum) by Andrew Raduski

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
May 8 2019

Neuroscience Awards Day

Wednesday, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
Student Center East, Cardinal Room
May 9 2019

MCDB Seminar: Structural Biology of Molecular Controls in Plant Hormone Responses, Joseph Jez, Professor, Biological Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis

Thursday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB, Room 4300
May 10 2019

LIN PhD Dissertation Seminar: Characterization of the von Willebrand domain-containing protein 8 (Vwa8) gene in mouse by Brian Grewe

Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
May 15 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
May 29 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
Jun 12 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
Jun 14 2019

BIOS Beginning of Summer Picnic

Friday, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
Greenhouse
Jun 26 2019

MCDB Seminar: "Factors that Determine the Adult Body Plan of the German Cockroach, Blattella Germanica," by Alba Ventos Alfonso, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
MBRB, Room 4300
Jul 10 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
Jul 23 2019

A joint meeting of the 56th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society and the 36th International Ethological Conference

Tuesday 23rd, 9:00 am–Saturday 27th, 5:00 pm
Aug 7 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
Aug 21 2019

Phoenix Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
MBRB
Aug 29 2019

BIOS Departmental Seminar: From the structure and function of the ribosome to disease-curing antibiotics by Yury Polikanov

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 3 2019

BIOS Departmental Seminar: Using parasitic wasps to gain insights into how evolution shapes development by Jeremy Lynch

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
4289 SEL
Sep 10 2019

BIOS Departmental Seminar: Microbial community responses to shifting environmental conditions by Rachel Poretsky

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 12 2019

LIN Seminar: Keep CALM and Mind The Gap: Calcium-dependent mechanisms of synaptic development by Brian Ackley, University of Kansas

Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 17 2019

BIOS Departmental Seminar: Assembly, regeneration, and age-related degeneration of neuronal circuits by Chieh Chang

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 19 2019

BIOS Departmental Seminar: Receptive Field Formation & Regulation of Neuronal Activity in the Retina: The Surprising and Controversial Role of H+ by Robert Paul Malchow

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 24 2019

E&E Seminar: Soil biota as drivers of exotic plant invasions by Ray Callaway, University of Montana (John Lussenhop Memorial Talk)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Sep 26 2019

LIN Seminar: Genetic and behavioral dissection of pain neural circuits, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 15 2019

MCDB Seminar: Identifying Cardiac Glycoside Biosynthesis Genes in Erysimum Cheiranthoides (Treacle Mustard), by Dr. Georg Jander, Professor, Cornell University

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Room 4300, MBRB
Oct 16 2019

Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Neuroscience Seminar: What can we really learn about the human brain from birds and mice? by Michael Long, NYU School of Medicine

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Student Center East, Room 302
Oct 17 2019

LIN Seminar: Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication by Michael Long, NYU School of Medicine

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Oct 22 2019

E&E Seminar: Phylogeography of North American plants: insights from Chestnuts, Blue Ash, and Viburnum by Dr. Elizabeth Spriggs, Harvard University

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SEL 4289
Oct 23 2019

Joint LIN/Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar: Sexually dimorphic patterning of the nervous system by Oliver Hobert, Columbia University

Wednesday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
COMRB 1020, Moss Auditorium
Nov 5 2019

E&E Seminar: Genetic viability through sexual flexibility in plants by Dr. Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SEL 4289, 840 West Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607
Nov 7 2019

LIN Seminar: Circadian Clocks in Seasonal Time and Neurodegenerative Disease by Ravi Allada, Northwestern University

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 8 2019

2019 MCDBN Open House

Friday, 10:00 am–3:00 pm
Nov 8 2019

Hank Howe's Career Celebration

Friday, 4:00 pm–7:00 pm
4289 SEL & Oasis
Nov 12 2019

MCDB Seminar: The lymphatic vasculature in the 21st century: Developmental mechanisms and functional roles by Guillermo Oliver, Northwestern

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB Auditorium 1017, MBRB
Nov 19 2019

E&E Seminar: Dynamics of plant-pollinator interactions: climate change, existing variation and flexibility by Paul CaraDonna, Chicago Botanic Garden & Northwestern University

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Nov 21 2019

LIN Seminar: The birth, brains and death of the octopus by Cliff Ragsdale, University of Chicago

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Dec 3 2019

E&E Seminar: Sex, lies and butterflies: The genetics of mimicry and mate choice in Heliconius butterflies by Marcus Kronforst, University of Chicago

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Jan 28 2020

MCDB Seminar: "Functional assembly of membraneless RNA-protein organelles" by Alexey Arkov, Murray State University, Professor of Biological Sciences

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB, Room 4300
Jan 28 2020

E&E Seminar: Algal microbiomes alter competitive interactions between their hosts by Vincent Denef, University of Michigan

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 4 2020

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 6 2020

LIN Seminar: New directions in neuromodulatory circuit discovery by Genia Kozorovitskiy, Northwestern University

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Feb 11 2020

E&E Seminar: "New tools for the analysis and visualization of geographic structure in population genetic data" by John Novembre, University of Chicago

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 21 2020

LIN Seminar: Dopamine release in brainstem locomotor circuits by Dimitri Ryczko, Université de Sherbrooke

Friday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SEL 4289
Feb 25 2020

E&E Seminar: "Motivations and mechanisms for urban ecological stewardship: Examining the CommuniTree and TreeKeepers programs" by Jess Vogt, DePaul University

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL