Events

Mar 29 2021

MCDB Seminar - "Modern Biochemical Approaches to Understanding Indole-3-Acetic Acid Biosynthesis" by Jerry D. Cohen, Professor of Horticultural Science and Distinguished Graduate Teaching Professor, University of Minnesota

Monday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
virtual seminar
Apr 5 2021

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Monday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
via Zoom
Apr 7 2021

LIN Spring Symposium- "Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain" by Dr. Ed Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
virtual seminar
Apr 13 2021

MCDB Seminar - "New Mechanisms of Lymphatic Vascular Development" by Hyun Min Jung, Assistant Professor, Dept. Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine, UIC

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
virtual seminar
Apr 20 2021

MCDB Seminar - "RNA granules: a view from the RNA perspective" by Tatjana Trcek, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, John Hopkins University

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
virtual seminar
Apr 20 2021

PhD Dissertation- "Fear and Foraging on the Coral Reef" by Meg Malone

Tuesday, 3:30 pm–4:30 pm
virtual seminar
Apr 29 2021

MCDB Seminar - "Plant Metabolomics, Shoots, and Ladders" by Adrian Hegeman, Professor, Depts. of Horticultural Science and Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota

Thursday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
virtual seminar
Apr 29 2021

LIN Seminar- Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford) and Arif Hamid (Brown University)

Thursday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
virtual seminar
Apr 30 2021

PhD Dissertation- "Into Darkness: The Effects of Mycorrhizal-associated Trees on the Forest-floor Food Web" by Amanda Henderson

Friday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
virtual seminar
May 4 2021

BIOS Faculty Meeting

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
via Zoom
May 14 2021

PhD Dissertation- "Behavioral and physiological indicators of Cephalopod state, perceptions and welfare" by Stephanie Chancellor

Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
virtual seminar
Jun 25 2021

PhD Dissertation: Valentina Gómez Bahamón presents "Speciation Via Loss of Migration and Correlated Morphological Evolution in Fork-tailed Flycatchers"

Friday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
virtual seminar
Aug 19 2021

UIC Department of Biological Sciences Symposium 2021

Thursday, 9:00 am–12:00 pm
BSB 250
Aug 31 2021

E&E Seminar Series- "Tropical biodiversity: Thinking beyond conservation in the island nation of Sri Lanka" by Kapila Yakandawala (Wayamba University of Sri Lanka)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 2 2021

LIN Seminar: Rui Gao and Joseph Zak

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 14 2021

Bios Departmental Seminar- "Plastic Fantastic: How nutritional plasticity affects shape, size and sex in Drosophila" by Alex Shingleton

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 23 2021

LIN Seminar: "Modulating D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing spiny-projection neurons corresponds to optimal antipsychotic effect” by Dr. Jones Parker (Northwestern University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 28 2021

E&E Seminar Series: "Drawing Ecological Lines: examining human effects on plant communities in cities" by Elsa Anderson (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Oct 12 2021

E&E Seminar Series: "Unraveling soil community dynamics in the face of global change" by Dr. Matthew McCary (Rice University)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Oct 21 2021

LIN Seminar: "From babbling Bats to Brains: Vocal ontogenetic processes in Saccopteryx bilineata" by Dr. Ahana Fernandez (Museum of Natural History Berlin)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
virtual seminar
Oct 26 2021

E&E Seminar Series: "Global range expansion in the monarch butterfly: ecological and evolutionary implications" by Micah Freedman (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Oct 26 2021

PhD Dissertation- "How do we understand natural selection?" by Lucy Delaney

Tuesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
virtual seminar
Oct 28 2021

LIN Seminar: Dr. Angeles Salles & Dr. Erica Jung (UIC)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Nov 9 2021

E&E Seminar Series: "Plasticity and the origin of signal-preference divergence: case studies with Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)" by Rafa Rodriguez (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Nov 17 2021

Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Seminar- "Gut-brain nutrient sensing for feeding behavior" by Dr. Amber Alhadeff (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
SCE 302
Nov 30 2021

E&E Seminar: "A landscape perspective on wetland conservation, restoration, and monitoring" by Sophie Taddeo (Chicago Botanic Garden)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Jan 27 2022

LIN Seminar: "Neuronal lysosome transport and function: links to neurodegenerative diseases" by Swetha Gowrishankar (UIC)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SEL 4289
Feb 1 2022

E&E Seminar: "Perspectives on the diversification of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)" by Bruce Patterson (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SEL 4289
Feb 8 2022

E&E Seminar: "Restoration and diversity in Chicagoland prairies and parks" by Dr. Rebecca Barak (Chicago Botanic Garden)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Feb 15 2022

E&E Seminar: "Evolutionary origins and ecological dynamics of a temperate biodiversity hotspot" by Richard Ree (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SES 4289
Feb 24 2022

LIN Seminar: "Why Do We Sleep: the Molecular Basis of Sleep Homeostasis" by Dr. Ravi Allada (Northwestern University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 1 2022

E&E Seminar: "Belowground strategies and whole-plant phenology at The Morton Arboretum and beyond" by Luke McCormack (Morton Arboretum)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 3 2022

LIN Seminar: "Circuits and Mechanisms underlying gender-specific courtship behavior in the mouse" by Dr. Lisa Stowers (Scripps Research)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 15 2022

E&E Seminar: "Pathogen dynamics across scales: from climate forcing to strain diversity" by Pamela Martinez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
SEL 4289
Mar 16 2022

LIN Annual Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: “Federal Positions in Health Science Policy” by Eliza Jacobs-Brichford (NIMH)

Wednesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Lecture Center F, room F003
Apr 5 2022

E&E Seminar- Graduate Student presentations

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SEL
Apr 12 2022

LIN Spring Symposium- "Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Adaptations of Hibernation" by Elena Gracheva (Yale University)

Tuesday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
SCE 302
Apr 19 2022

E&E Seminar: "When refrigeration is not cool: exploring the intersection between cold stress and tomato fruit ripening" by Diane Beckles (UC Davis)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
Apr 26 2022

E&E Seminar: "Phylogenomic approaches to studying plant diversity and evolution, from genes to species" by Norm Wickett (Chicago Botanic Garden)

Tuesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
4289 SELE
May 5 2022

PhD Dissertation- "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Calcium-Dependent Release at C. elegans Synapses" by Mia Krout

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
May 26 2022

PhD Dissertation: "A Novel Regulatory Role of Tomosyn in HOPS-dependent endo-lysosomal function in C. elegans Coelomocytes" by Kristin Gallik

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SEL
Jun 2 2022

PhD Dissertation: Karolis Ramanauskas

Thursday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
SEL 4289
Jun 16 2022

PhD Dissertation: Sohee Jeon

Thursday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
virtual seminar
Aug 12 2022

PhD Dissertation: "Legacy and Belowground Resource Availability Effects on Plant-Soil Interactions in Tallgrass Prairies" by Nicholas Glass

Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
4289 SELE
Aug 12 2022

PhD Dissertation: "Prenatal Stress and Fluoxetine Exposure on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Risk" by Anna Arzuaga

Friday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
4289 SELE
Aug 19 2022

UIC Department of Biological Sciences Symposium 2022

Friday, 9:00 am–4:30 pm
SES 250
Aug 30 2022

E&E Seminar: "Examining microbial roles in coastal and terrestrial wetlands using KBase" by Pamela Weisenhorn (Argonne National Lab)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SEL 4289
Sep 13 2022

E&E Seminar: "Predicting multivariate niche traits for extinct taxa from phenotypic data: the case of carnivoran diet" by Graham Slater (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 15 2022

Departmental Seminar: "From Neurons to Neuroblastoma and Back Again: Stem Cell and Cancer Differentiation In Vivo" by Ankur Saxena

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 22 2022

LIN Seminar: “Molecular and cellular mechanisms in disrupted motivation” by Mary Kay Lobo (University of Maryland)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 27 2022

E&E Seminar: "Genetics, adaptation, and speciation in a fossil stickleback lineage" by Yoel Stuart (Loyola University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Sep 29 2022

LIN Seminar: Diego Giraldo & Sharlen Moore

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 11 2022

MCDB Seminar: "Mechanical interactions between tissues in the developing olfactory system" by Marie Breau (Institut de Biologie Paris)

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
Virtual
Oct 11 2022

E&E Seminar: "Alien Invaders! Studies on the ecology and evolution of invasive parasites" by Jennifer Koop (Northern Illinois University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Oct 12 2022

Annual Christopher Comer Undergraduate Seminar- "What a bird can tell you about your brain" by Stephanie White (UCLA)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Oct 14 2022

PhD Dissertation: "Indicators of stress & reproduction for management considerations in abundant deer & endangered ferrets" by Emily Potratz (Brown Lab)

Friday, 9:00 am–10:00 am
4289 SELE
Oct 18 2022

E&E Seminar: "Understanding viral persistence in wild, Madagascar fruit bats" by Cara Brook (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Oct 25 2022

MCDB Seminar: "The ins and outs of ciliated epithelia" by Brian Mitchell (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University)

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
1017 MBRB
Nov 3 2022

LIN Seminar- "Reverberating differences (our senses as sources of value)" by Casey O'Callaghan (Washington University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Nov 15 2022

E&E Seminar: "Plant biodiversity change in the Anthropocene" by Daniel Park (Purdue University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SEL 4289
Nov 29 2022

MCDB Seminar: "Deciphering the Wnt/Fzd code in hematopoietic stem cells" by Stephanie Grainger (Van Andel Institute)

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
1017 MBRB
Nov 29 2022

E&E Seminar: "Fighting for fitness: integrating behavioral, hormonal, and neurogenomic perspectives on the evolution of female competition" by Sara Lipshutz (Loyola University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Dec 1 2022

LIN Seminar: "The olfactory bulb maps breathing rhythms and place in freely behaving mice" by Matt Smear (University of Oregon)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Jan 19 2023

LIN Seminar: "Manipulating Maladaptive Memories" by Stephanie Grella (Loyola University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Jan 26 2023

LIN Seminar: "Interrogating mechanisms of context-dependent tolerance to opioid overdose" by Dr. Alfredo Garcia (University of Chicago)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Jan 31 2023

E&E Seminar: "When to migrate when to breed: Is now still the right time?" Ellen Ketterson (University of Indiana Bloomington)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 14 2023

E&E Seminar: "Ecology, Evolution and Expenses –Lessons from the Cayman Islands" by Jane Haakonsson (Dept. of Environment, Cayman Islands)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SEL
Feb 21 2023

E&E Seminar: "Antagonism, mutualism and diversification in tropical insect flower visitors" by Bruno de Medeiros (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 28 2023

EE Seminar: Graduate Student Presentations

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Mar 2 2023

LIN Seminar: "Cortical circuits for predictive processing" by Jordan Hamm (Georgia State University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 14 2023

E&E Seminar: "Responses of animals to a changing world: lessons from bats, salamanders, and beyond" by Giorgia Auteri (Missouri State University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Mar 16 2023

BIOlogists for Student Success: BIOSS Kickoff Meeting & Overview of BIOS/IHS programs

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 28 2023

E&E Seminar: "The Earth's living skin: How biocrusts shape dryland ecosystem structure and function" by Matthew Bowker (Northern Arizona University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Mar 30 2023

LIN Seminar: "Delineating the insula-centric negative affective circuitry engaged by stress and alcohol exposure" by Sam Centanni (Wake Forest University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 4 2023

LIN Annual Spring Symposium: “Untangling the web of behaviors used in spider orb-weaving” by Andrew Gordus (Johns Hopkins University)

Tuesday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
SCE 302
Apr 6 2023

BIOSS Workshop: Embedding Polls in Panopto & Echo 360

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
4273 SELE
Apr 11 2023

MCDB Seminar: Jeffery Tomberlin, Professor, Texas A&M, "The Story of the Black Soldier Fly: Bridging Basic & Applied Sciences Results in Unique Opportunities to Protect Global Resources"

Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
4300 MBRB
Apr 11 2023

E&E Seminar: "Crazy Love” Nonlinearity and Irrationality in Mate Choice" by Michael Ryan (University of Texas at Austin)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
4289 SELE
Apr 13 2023

LIN 2023 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: "Carving Out a Career in Communications: Perspectives & Path of a Former Neuroscientist" by Caitlin Vander Weele (Stellate Communications)

Thursday, 9:30 am–10:30 am
Lecture Center E1
Apr 18 2023

Departmental Seminar: "Form, function, and adaptation in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies" by Lucas Carneiro (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 19 2023

MCDB Seminar: Geraldine Seydoux (Johns Hopkins University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute), "RNA granule assembly and function in the C. elegans germline"

Wednesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am
MBRB 1017 Herman Auditorium
Apr 24 2023

BIOS/IHS Undergraduate Awards Ceremony

Monday, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
Student Center East Room 605
Apr 25 2023

E&E Seminar: "Consequences of environmental variation for plant populations: earlier flowering under climate change and pollinator declines" by Amy Iler (Chicago Botanic Garden)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
May 10 2023

Graduate Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
SELE 4289
Jun 30 2023

Master's Defense: "Methods Development for SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance" by Leah Kelly (Poretsky Lab)

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SELE 4289
Aug 28 2023

PhD Dissertation: "Comparative Phylogeography of bats in South America" by Natalia Cortes-Delgado (Mason-Gamer Lab)

Monday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
SELE 4289
Aug 29 2023

E&E Seminar: Nicholas Marra (Governors State University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 7 2023

LIN Seminar: “Neural circuits linking social behavior and thermoregulation ” by Adam Nelson (University of Wyoming)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 14 2023

BIOS Seminar: Yury Polikanov

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 21 2023

LIN Seminar: Alex Keinath & Dennis Sparta

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 22 2023

MCDB Virtual Seminar: Jaime Hibbard (Industrial Consultant at LEK Consulting)

9/22/23, 12:00 pm–10/22/23, 1:00 pm
Virtual
Sep 26 2023

E&E Seminar: "Embracing the hidden strengths of large (or many) phylogenetic trees for comparative biology" by Jeremy Beaulieu (University of Arkansas)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 4 2023

MCDB Seminar: Dmitri Ermolenko (University of Rochester), "Single-molecule studies of intersubunit rotation in ribosomes"

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
1017 MBRB
Oct 5 2023

LIN Seminar: "Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based brain-machine interface" by Albert Lee (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia research campus)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 10 2023

E&E Seminar: "A tale of two motilities: adaptive biomechanics in complex, changing environments" by Jasmine Nirody (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 12 2023

(Virtual) LIN Seminar: "Functional variomics and deep learning networks: connecting genotype to phenotype in neurological disorders" by Dr. Stephen Yi (University of Texas at Austin)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
virtual seminar
Oct 17 2023

PhD Dissertation: "Riverscape Genetics of Rainbow (Etheostoma caeruleum) and Orangethroat (E. spectabile) Darters" by John Belcik

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289