Events Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 View Results Reset Filter 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 Oct 18 2023 MCDB Seminar: Dannie Durand (Carnegie-Mellon) "Evolutionary remodeling of a bacterial signaling pathway" Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Oct 26 2023 2023 Comer Undergraduate Seminar: "Decoding Neuromodulation of Valence in the Basolateral Amygdala" by Michael Bruchas (University of Washington) Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm ARC 241 Oct 31 2023 E&E Seminar: "The role of urban forests in cities: How do we study them and what have we learned?" by Natalie Love (UIC) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Nov 2 2023 LIN Seminar: "Uncovering Neural Circuits for Social Bonding" by Sarah Woolley (McGill University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Nov 7 2023 MCDB Seminar: DurreShahwar Muhammad, PhD (Rice University), "Peroxisomal quality control: a multi-omics investigation” Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am 4300 MBRB Nov 7 2023 E&E Seminar: "Urban Street Tree Stewardship and Health in Socio-ecological Systems" by Renata Poulton Kamakura (Duke University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm 4289 SELE Nov 14 2023 E&E Seminar: "Preventing the spread of invasive aquatic invertebrates in the Chicago River System" by Reuben Keller (Loyola University Chicago) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Nov 16 2023 LIN Seminar: "Amygdala-cortical substrates of alcohol use disorder" by Reesha Patel (Northwestern University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Jan 25 2024 LIN Seminar: "Information processing in the retina in health and in Fragile X syndrome" by Anna Vlasits (UIC) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Jan 30 2024 E&E Seminar: "Mining plant genomes for gene discovery and functional validation" by Suzy Strickler (Chicago Botanic Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Feb 6 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring Tree Diversity Patterns in the Andes Region and Mexico" by Bela Loza (Morton Arboretum) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 am 4289 SELE Feb 8 2024 LIN Seminar: "Neural circuits of mood and their sensitivity to stress-induced inflammation" by Amiel Rosenkranz (Rosalind Franklin University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Feb 13 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring plant population trait variation in restoration contexts" by Alicia Foxx (Chicago Botanic Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Feb 20 2024 MCDB Seminar: Amelia Lindsey (University of Minnesota) Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm 4300 MBRB Feb 20 2024 E&E Seminar: Graduate Student Presentations Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Feb 27 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Noninvasive assessments of reproductive strategy and function" by Katie Fowler (Brown Lab) Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm SELE 4289 Feb 28 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Bee, Floral Resource, and Pollination Service Responses to Management Scale and Type in Suburban Areas" by Sheryl Hosler (Minor Lab) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm SELE 4289 Mar 7 2024 LIN Seminar: "Sounds from the deep: Corticollicular interactions in the mouse" by Daniel Llano (UIUC). Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Mar 12 2024 E&E Seminar: "Diversity and Divergence Across Geographic and Genomic Scales" by Deren Eaton (Columbia University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Mar 14 2024 LIN Seminar: "Birdsong Learning: From Intrinsic Neuronal Properties to Network Encoding of Sequences of Vocal Movements and Error" by Daniel Margoliash (University of Chicago) March 14, 2024 4289 SELE Mar 20 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Visualizing molecular mechanisms of bacterial natural transformation" by Briana Burton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm MBRB 4300 Mar 26 2024 E&E Seminar: "Genomic tools for understanding the evolution, distribution, ecology, and conservation of freshwater mussels in the Great Lakes and beyond" by David Zanatta (Central Michigan University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Apr 2 2024 E&E Seminar: "Translating Science into Practice and Practice into Science - Northeast RISCC Management Network" by Bethany Bradley (University of Massachusetts) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Apr 2 2024 Undergraduate Awards Ceremony (BIOS, NEURO, IHS) Tuesday, 4:30 pm–5:45 pm Student Center East Room 605 Apr 3 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Non-Mendelian inheritance in ants and worms" by John Wang, PhD (Academia Sinica) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium Apr 4 2024 LIN Seminar: "Electrophysiological signatures of cognitive development and bilingualism in processing simple arithmetic" by Nicole Wicha (University of Texas, San Antonio) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Apr 9 2024 E&E Seminar: “How much can we learn about the process of lineage diversification from molecular phylogenies?” by Matthew Pennell (University of Southern California) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Apr 10 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Live imaging approaches to understand endosomal trafficking and morphogenetic processes across scales" by Dr. Senthil Arumugam (Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium Apr 11 2024 2024 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: Holden Janssens (atai Life Sciences) Thursday, 9:30 am–10:45 am Apr 16 2024 Departmental Seminar: "Making a Migratory Monarch" by André Green (University of Michigan) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Apr 17 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Regulation of host-relevant biofilm formation by Vibrio fischeri" by Karen Visick, PhD (Loyola University Chicago) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium Apr 18 2024 LIN Seminar: "From mutations to mechanisms: How neuronal cilia and extracellular vesicles signal" by Maureen Barr (Rutgers University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Apr 23 2024 E&E Seminar: "Naturalized Parrots of the World" by Stephen Pruett-Jones (University of Chicago) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm 4289 SELE Apr 24 2024 2nd Annual BIOS Graduate and Postbac Research Poster Competition Wednesday, 10:30 am–2:00 pm SELE 4th Floor Oasis Apr 25 2024 LIN 2024 Neuroscience Plenary Lecture: "Lessons from sleep in the deep: seal sleep at sea reveals clues to sleep's function and evolution" by Jessica Kendall-Bar Thursday, 9:30 am–10:30 am SCE 605 May 1 2024 MCDB Seminar: Graziano Pinna (UIC Psychiatry): Development of neurosteroid-based treatments for PTSD and depression May 01, 2024 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium May 15 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Building a maize anther, cell type by cell type" by Virginia Walbot (Stanford University) May 15, 2024 4300 MBRB Jun 28 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Somatic mutations reveal individual histories of development, aging, and inheritance" by Alexej Abyzov (Mayo Clinic) Friday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm 4300 MBRB and Zoom Jul 16 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Consistent Individual Differences in Social and Solitary Foraging Within Disparate Taxa" by Alex Pergams (Brown Lab) Tuesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm SELE 4289 Aug 30 2024 PhD Dissertation: A Novel Metabolic Program Fuels Continued Anaerobic Glycolysis in the Hypoxia Tolerant Naked Mole-Rats by Vince Amoroso (Park Lab) Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Sep 3 2024 E&E Seminar: "Photosynthesis occurring in green stem bark: insights from desert ecosystems" by Eleinis Ávila-Lovera (University of Utah) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Sep 4 2024 MCDB Seminar by Neil Kelleher (Northwestern University) Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm MBRB Auditorium 1017 Sep 6 2024 MCDB Seminar: Rob Arkowitz (Institute Of Biology Valrose, Côte d'Azur University) Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm MBRB 4300 Sep 10 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Flushed with Insights: exploring wastewater and environmental microbial communities for ecology and public health" by Rachel Poretsky Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm 4289 SELE Sep 12 2024 LIN Seminar: “The role of early brain processing on the auditory system of a mouse model of autism” by Liz McCullagh (Oklahoma State University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Sep 17 2024 E&E Seminar: "The genetic basis of self-pollen recognition in Phlox wildflowers" by Grace Burgin (Harvard University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Sep 17 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Moonlighting Proteins" by Constance Jeffery Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Sep 20 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Timing Mechanisms in Neurons: from Neuronal Connectivity and Regeneration to Neurodegeneration" by Chieh Chang Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Oct 1 2024 E&E Seminar: "Bromeliad evolution and conservation in the high elevation Andes" by Julián Aguirre-Santoro (Missouri Botanical Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Oct 15 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring the human dimensions of infectious diseases: People, forests, ticks, and policy." by Andrés M. Urcuqui-Bustamante (CUPPA) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Oct 17 2024 LIN Seminar: "Wiring the taste system: from sensation to behavior" by Hojoon Lee (Northwestern University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Oct 21 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Discover the CURE: Lessons learned from implementing a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience" by Andrea Bassett Monday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Oct 29 2024 E&E Seminar: "Using biogeographic tools to optimize conservation resources" by Anderson Feijó (Field Museum) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Oct 29 2024 BIOS Seminar: Maximizing TA Success: Strategies for Supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants by Emily Potratz Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Oct 30 2024 MCDB Seminar by Divya Bijukumar (College of Medicine Rockford, University of Illinois Chicago) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm MBRB 1017 auditorium Nov 7 2024 LIN Seminar: "Ventral pallidal neurons in opioid seeking behavior" by Meaghan Creed (Washington University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Nov 12 2024 E&E Seminar: "Ornaments, Enemies & Sensory Filters in the Eco-Evo of Communication Systems" by Ximena Bernal (Purdue University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Nov 19 2024 E&E Seminar: "Intraspecific variation and population processes in the fossil record" by C. Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi (University of Toronto) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Nov 20 2024 2024 Comer Undergraduate Seminar: "Sleep to optimize your brain" by Dr. Gina Poe (UCLA) Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm ARC 241 Dec 5 2024 LIN Seminar: "Toxic relationships: Production, detection, and resistance to tetrodotoxin in rough-skinned newts" by Heather Eisthen (Michigan State University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Jan 16 2025 LIN Seminar: "Identifying New Druggable Targets for Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders" by Nien-Pei Tsai (UIUC) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289 Feb 4 2025 E&E Seminar: "The Department of Defense’s Role in Wildlife Management and Conservation" by Sasha Tetzlaff (US Army Corps of Engineers) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
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
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 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
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 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
Oct 18 2023 MCDB Seminar: Dannie Durand (Carnegie-Mellon) "Evolutionary remodeling of a bacterial signaling pathway" Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB
Oct 26 2023 2023 Comer Undergraduate Seminar: "Decoding Neuromodulation of Valence in the Basolateral Amygdala" by Michael Bruchas (University of Washington) Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm ARC 241
Oct 31 2023 E&E Seminar: "The role of urban forests in cities: How do we study them and what have we learned?" by Natalie Love (UIC) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Nov 2 2023 LIN Seminar: "Uncovering Neural Circuits for Social Bonding" by Sarah Woolley (McGill University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Nov 7 2023 MCDB Seminar: DurreShahwar Muhammad, PhD (Rice University), "Peroxisomal quality control: a multi-omics investigation” Tuesday, 10:30 am–11:30 am 4300 MBRB
Nov 7 2023 E&E Seminar: "Urban Street Tree Stewardship and Health in Socio-ecological Systems" by Renata Poulton Kamakura (Duke University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm 4289 SELE
Nov 14 2023 E&E Seminar: "Preventing the spread of invasive aquatic invertebrates in the Chicago River System" by Reuben Keller (Loyola University Chicago) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Nov 16 2023 LIN Seminar: "Amygdala-cortical substrates of alcohol use disorder" by Reesha Patel (Northwestern University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Jan 25 2024 LIN Seminar: "Information processing in the retina in health and in Fragile X syndrome" by Anna Vlasits (UIC) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Jan 30 2024 E&E Seminar: "Mining plant genomes for gene discovery and functional validation" by Suzy Strickler (Chicago Botanic Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Feb 6 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring Tree Diversity Patterns in the Andes Region and Mexico" by Bela Loza (Morton Arboretum) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 am 4289 SELE
Feb 8 2024 LIN Seminar: "Neural circuits of mood and their sensitivity to stress-induced inflammation" by Amiel Rosenkranz (Rosalind Franklin University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Feb 13 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring plant population trait variation in restoration contexts" by Alicia Foxx (Chicago Botanic Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Feb 20 2024 MCDB Seminar: Amelia Lindsey (University of Minnesota) Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm 4300 MBRB
Feb 27 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Noninvasive assessments of reproductive strategy and function" by Katie Fowler (Brown Lab) Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm SELE 4289
Feb 28 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Bee, Floral Resource, and Pollination Service Responses to Management Scale and Type in Suburban Areas" by Sheryl Hosler (Minor Lab) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm SELE 4289
Mar 7 2024 LIN Seminar: "Sounds from the deep: Corticollicular interactions in the mouse" by Daniel Llano (UIUC). Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Mar 12 2024 E&E Seminar: "Diversity and Divergence Across Geographic and Genomic Scales" by Deren Eaton (Columbia University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Mar 14 2024 LIN Seminar: "Birdsong Learning: From Intrinsic Neuronal Properties to Network Encoding of Sequences of Vocal Movements and Error" by Daniel Margoliash (University of Chicago) March 14, 2024 4289 SELE
Mar 20 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Visualizing molecular mechanisms of bacterial natural transformation" by Briana Burton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm MBRB 4300
Mar 26 2024 E&E Seminar: "Genomic tools for understanding the evolution, distribution, ecology, and conservation of freshwater mussels in the Great Lakes and beyond" by David Zanatta (Central Michigan University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Apr 2 2024 E&E Seminar: "Translating Science into Practice and Practice into Science - Northeast RISCC Management Network" by Bethany Bradley (University of Massachusetts) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Apr 2 2024 Undergraduate Awards Ceremony (BIOS, NEURO, IHS) Tuesday, 4:30 pm–5:45 pm Student Center East Room 605
Apr 3 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Non-Mendelian inheritance in ants and worms" by John Wang, PhD (Academia Sinica) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium
Apr 4 2024 LIN Seminar: "Electrophysiological signatures of cognitive development and bilingualism in processing simple arithmetic" by Nicole Wicha (University of Texas, San Antonio) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Apr 9 2024 E&E Seminar: “How much can we learn about the process of lineage diversification from molecular phylogenies?” by Matthew Pennell (University of Southern California) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Apr 10 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Live imaging approaches to understand endosomal trafficking and morphogenetic processes across scales" by Dr. Senthil Arumugam (Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium
Apr 11 2024 2024 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: Holden Janssens (atai Life Sciences) Thursday, 9:30 am–10:45 am
Apr 16 2024 Departmental Seminar: "Making a Migratory Monarch" by André Green (University of Michigan) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Apr 17 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Regulation of host-relevant biofilm formation by Vibrio fischeri" by Karen Visick, PhD (Loyola University Chicago) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium
Apr 18 2024 LIN Seminar: "From mutations to mechanisms: How neuronal cilia and extracellular vesicles signal" by Maureen Barr (Rutgers University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Apr 23 2024 E&E Seminar: "Naturalized Parrots of the World" by Stephen Pruett-Jones (University of Chicago) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm 4289 SELE
Apr 24 2024 2nd Annual BIOS Graduate and Postbac Research Poster Competition Wednesday, 10:30 am–2:00 pm SELE 4th Floor Oasis
Apr 25 2024 LIN 2024 Neuroscience Plenary Lecture: "Lessons from sleep in the deep: seal sleep at sea reveals clues to sleep's function and evolution" by Jessica Kendall-Bar Thursday, 9:30 am–10:30 am SCE 605
May 1 2024 MCDB Seminar: Graziano Pinna (UIC Psychiatry): Development of neurosteroid-based treatments for PTSD and depression May 01, 2024 1017 MBRB Herman Auditorium
May 15 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Building a maize anther, cell type by cell type" by Virginia Walbot (Stanford University) May 15, 2024 4300 MBRB
Jun 28 2024 MCDB Seminar: "Somatic mutations reveal individual histories of development, aging, and inheritance" by Alexej Abyzov (Mayo Clinic) Friday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm 4300 MBRB and Zoom
Jul 16 2024 PhD Dissertation: "Consistent Individual Differences in Social and Solitary Foraging Within Disparate Taxa" by Alex Pergams (Brown Lab) Tuesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm SELE 4289
Aug 30 2024 PhD Dissertation: A Novel Metabolic Program Fuels Continued Anaerobic Glycolysis in the Hypoxia Tolerant Naked Mole-Rats by Vince Amoroso (Park Lab) Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Sep 3 2024 E&E Seminar: "Photosynthesis occurring in green stem bark: insights from desert ecosystems" by Eleinis Ávila-Lovera (University of Utah) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Sep 4 2024 MCDB Seminar by Neil Kelleher (Northwestern University) Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm MBRB Auditorium 1017
Sep 6 2024 MCDB Seminar: Rob Arkowitz (Institute Of Biology Valrose, Côte d'Azur University) Friday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm MBRB 4300
Sep 10 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Flushed with Insights: exploring wastewater and environmental microbial communities for ecology and public health" by Rachel Poretsky Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm 4289 SELE
Sep 12 2024 LIN Seminar: “The role of early brain processing on the auditory system of a mouse model of autism” by Liz McCullagh (Oklahoma State University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Sep 17 2024 E&E Seminar: "The genetic basis of self-pollen recognition in Phlox wildflowers" by Grace Burgin (Harvard University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Sep 17 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Moonlighting Proteins" by Constance Jeffery Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Sep 20 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Timing Mechanisms in Neurons: from Neuronal Connectivity and Regeneration to Neurodegeneration" by Chieh Chang Friday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Oct 1 2024 E&E Seminar: "Bromeliad evolution and conservation in the high elevation Andes" by Julián Aguirre-Santoro (Missouri Botanical Garden) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Oct 15 2024 E&E Seminar: "Exploring the human dimensions of infectious diseases: People, forests, ticks, and policy." by Andrés M. Urcuqui-Bustamante (CUPPA) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Oct 17 2024 LIN Seminar: "Wiring the taste system: from sensation to behavior" by Hojoon Lee (Northwestern University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Oct 21 2024 BIOS Seminar: "Discover the CURE: Lessons learned from implementing a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience" by Andrea Bassett Monday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Oct 29 2024 E&E Seminar: "Using biogeographic tools to optimize conservation resources" by Anderson Feijó (Field Museum) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Oct 29 2024 BIOS Seminar: Maximizing TA Success: Strategies for Supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants by Emily Potratz Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Oct 30 2024 MCDB Seminar by Divya Bijukumar (College of Medicine Rockford, University of Illinois Chicago) Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm MBRB 1017 auditorium
Nov 7 2024 LIN Seminar: "Ventral pallidal neurons in opioid seeking behavior" by Meaghan Creed (Washington University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Nov 12 2024 E&E Seminar: "Ornaments, Enemies & Sensory Filters in the Eco-Evo of Communication Systems" by Ximena Bernal (Purdue University) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Nov 19 2024 E&E Seminar: "Intraspecific variation and population processes in the fossil record" by C. Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi (University of Toronto) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289
Nov 20 2024 2024 Comer Undergraduate Seminar: "Sleep to optimize your brain" by Dr. Gina Poe (UCLA) Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm ARC 241
Dec 5 2024 LIN Seminar: "Toxic relationships: Production, detection, and resistance to tetrodotoxin in rough-skinned newts" by Heather Eisthen (Michigan State University) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Jan 16 2025 LIN Seminar: "Identifying New Druggable Targets for Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders" by Nien-Pei Tsai (UIUC) Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm SELE 4289
Feb 4 2025 E&E Seminar: "The Department of Defense’s Role in Wildlife Management and Conservation" by Sasha Tetzlaff (US Army Corps of Engineers) Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm SELE 4289