Events

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 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