Events

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 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
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
Feb 5 2025

MCDB Seminar by John Karanicolas, PhD (AbbVie)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1017
Feb 11 2025

LIN Spring Plenary Lecture: "The social minds of humans and other apes" by Christopher Krupenye (Johns Hopkins University)

Tuesday, 9:30 am–10:30 am
SCE 301
Feb 18 2025

E&E Seminar: "The mode and tempo of plant adaptation to contemporary agriculture" by Julia Kreiner (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 19 2025

MCDB Seminar: Brian Murphy (UIC College of Pharmacy)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 4300
Feb 21 2025

E&E student presentations

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 26 2025

PhD Dissertation: "Integrating Behavior and Conservation: Behavioral Ecology as a Management Tool" by Kristie Foster (Brown Lab)

Wednesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 3440
Feb 27 2025

LIN Seminar: "Neural coding and circuitry of active vision" by Phil Parker (Rutgers University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 28 2025

Crossing Borders, Cultivating Futures: Monarchs, Milkweeds, and Journeys of Transformation in Science Education

Friday, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
Isadora & Sadie Dorin Forum
Mar 3 2025

Departmental seminar: Cuauhtemoc Saenz Romero

Monday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Mar 4 2025

E&E Seminar: "Germline stem cells, diet, metabolism, and physiology" by Daniela Drummond-Barbosa (UW-Madison)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 am
SELE 4289
Mar 5 2025

MCDB Seminar by Xiaorong Lin, (University of Georgia)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1017
Mar 13 2025

LIN Seminar: "The mechanisms that drive the neural dynamics of memory" by Mark Sheffield (University of Chicago)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Mar 18 2025

E&E Seminar: "Soil habitats as holistic complex systems" by Nick Medina (Morton Arboretum)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 1 2025

E&E Seminar: "Occurrence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Surface Waters of the Chicago Area Waterway System" by Gordon Getzinger (Loyola University Chicago)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 2 2025

MCDB Seminar by Teresa O'Meara (University of Michigan)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1017
Apr 9 2025

Undergraduate Awards Day Cemerony

Wednesday, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
Student Center East, Illinois AB Rooms
Apr 10 2025

LIN 2025 Careers in Neuroscience Seminar: Victoria Corbit (National Disease Research Interchange)

Thursday, 9:30 am–10:30 am
Lecture Center D, Room D002
Apr 10 2025

LIN Seminar: " Auditory Perception of Host Cricket Calling Songs in the Acoustic Parasitoid Fly Ormia ochracea" by Norman Lee (St. Olaf College)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 15 2025

E&E Seminar: "Tropical Forests: A 300-Million-Year Journey" by Fabiany Herrera (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 16 2025

MCDB Seminar by Leon Tai (UIC College of Medicine)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB Room TBA
Apr 17 2025

BIOS Seminar: "High-throughput electron microscopy for connectomics" by Kevin Boergens

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 22 2025

E&E Seminar: "The Urban Wildlife Information Network: A Global Alliance For Coordinated Urban Wildlife Research" by Seth Magle (Lincoln Park Zoo)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 30 2025

MCDB Seminar by Barbara Adaikpoh (UIC College of Pharmacy)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1017
Sep 10 2025

MCDB Seminar: Valerie Paul (Smithsonian)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1017
Sep 11 2025

LIN Seminar: Alexis Stranahan (Augusta University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 16 2025

E&E Seminar: Kelly Kapsar (Michigan State University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 25 2025

LIN Seminar: Melville Wohlgemuth (University of Arizona)

Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Sep 30 2025

E&E Seminar: Bruno Soares (University of Regina)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Nov 18 2025

E&E Seminar: Gerald Carter (Princeton University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 8 2026

2026 Undergraduate Awards Day

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Student Center East, Illinois AB Rooms