Chemistry - Chemical Biology Seminars

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• • 3:30 pm    4/30/2020
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  **CANCELED**Professor Jonathan Sczepanski, Texas A&M University, "Title TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    5/13/2020

  Ms. Effie Zhou, Final Defense, UIUC, "Activatable Photoacoustic Contrast Agents for Sensing and Delivering Nitric Oxide, and Development of Small Molecule Photoacoustic Platforms with Improved Properties for In Vivo Imaging"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    6/18/2020

  Mr. Christopher Reinhardt, Final Defense, UIUC, "Chemical Probes for Studying Cyclooxygenase-2 and Nitric Oxide in Living Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    6/29/2020

  Ms. Silvia Bobeica, Final Defense, UIUC, "Structural Investigation of Lanthipeptides Involved in Substrate Controlled Pathways and Methods for Leader Peptide Removal"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    7/2/2020

  Mr. Aaron Roth, Final Defense, UIUC, "The Stereoselective Synthesis of 1,2-Disubstituted Beta-Amino Alcohols and Amino Thiols "

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    8/25/2020

  Tenure Seminar: Prof. Jeff Chan, UIUC, "Expanding the Chemical Toolbox for Acoustic-based In Vivo Molecule Imaging"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    8/31/2020

  Prof. Jonathan Sczepanski, Texas A&M University, "Synthetic Chromatin and Mirror Image Oligonucleotides"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    9/14/2020

  Prof. Emily Derbyshire, Duke University, "Interdisciplinary approaches to reveal Plasmodium parasite vulnerabilities"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/1/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ms. Mandira Banik, UIUC, "Liquid-Liquid Phase Separations in Neurodegenerative Diseases"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/5/2020
  • TBD

  Postponed, date TBD, Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Craig M. Crews, Yale University, "Title: TBA"

  Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/15/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ms. Prakriti Das, UIUC, "Chemical Tools Targeting Sialic Acids"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/22/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mr. Yue Yu, UIUC, "Genetic Methods for Incorporating Multiple Distinct Unnatural Amino Acids into Proteins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/29/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mr. Alex Battiste, UIUC, "Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Entry Into and Exit From a Persister State"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    11/3/2020

  Mr. Xiaorui Guo, University of Illinois, Final Defense: "Genomics-guided, Reactivity-based Discovery and Characterization of Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/5/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ms. Amanda Smith, UIUC, "Imaging Cellular Forces Using Tension Probes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/12/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ms. Karna Terpstra, UIUC, "Implications of mTOR Misregulation in Lysosomal Storage Diseases"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/19/2020

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mr. Andrew Rice, UIUC, "It's Electric! Protein Nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    2/15/2021

  Professor Wei-chen Chang, North Carolina State University, "Mechanistic Studies and Potential Application of Non-heme Iron Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    2/25/2021

  Ms. Susanna Barrett, UIUC, "Whole-Organism NMR: A Complementary Window into the Metabolic World"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/4/2021

  Mr. Robert Boyd, UIUC, "Red Blood Cells as Drug Delivery Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    3/16/2021

  Ms. Ke Li, Final Defense, UIUC, “Development of Therapeutic Agents for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/18/2021

  Autumn Frerk, UIUC, "Click Chemistry Reactions to Study and Improve Platinum-Based Anticancer Drugs"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    3/25/2021

  Mr. Martin McLaughlin, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigations of Metalloenzymes in Bacterial Natural Product Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/25/2021

  Mr. Shravan Dommaraju, UIUC, "Wolbachia: Using our parasites' parasites to treat tropical disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/1/2021

  Michael Mulligan, UIUC, "Emerging Strategies for Targeting Mammalian RNA with Small Molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/8/2021

  Joel Roberts, UIUC, "Chemical Manipulation of Macrophage Phenotypes to Induce Tissue Regeneration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    5/13/2021

  Adam DiCaprio, Final Defense, UIUC, "Biomolecular NMR studies of the structure and biosynthesis of RiPP natural products"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am    8/12/2021

  Ryan Lake, UIUC, Final Defense, "Discovery of Novel Functional DNA and their Application as Biological Sensors"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    9/16/2021
  • Levis Faculty Center - Room 210

  Professor Jefferson Chan, CAS Beckman Fellow 2019-20, UIUC, "Expanding the Chemical Toolbox for Acoustic-based Imaging of Cancer".

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    9/23/2021

  Professor Shanteri Singh, University of Oklahoma, "Utilizing Aromatic Prenyltransferases for the Late-stage Diversification of Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/4/2021

  Prof. Xin Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, "Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/14/2021
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Noah Haskin, UIUC, "Understanding Natural Plant Defenses and Creating New Tools for Insect Resistance"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/21/2021
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mayuresh Gadgil, UIUC, "A Biological Compass: Role of the Cryptochrome Protein in Magnetoreception"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/28/2021
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Thomas Pires, UIUC, "Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase: A Frontier Target in Drug Discovery"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/18/2021
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Marya Ornelas, UIUC, "Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in Viral Replication: a New Target for Therapeutic Development?"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    12/2/2021
  • RAL 116

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Christopher Rakowski, UIUC, "Polar Opposites: Engineering Asymmetric Cell Division in Bacteria"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/20/2022
  • B102 Chem Life Sciences Lab

  Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Juan Pablo Maianti, Exo Therapeutics, "Substrate-Selective Control of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Reveals the Untapped Enzymology of Exosite Inhibition"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    2/3/2022
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CANCELED: Professor Han Xiao, Rice University, "Bring the Power of Antibodies to the Bone"

  He has rescheduled to later this spring: Thurs., 4/7/22. The new date will soon be updated in the seminar calendar. 

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    2/21/2022

  Professor Sheel Dodani, University of Texas at Dallas, "Decoding the Supramolecular Principles of Biological Anion Recognition "

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    2/22/2022
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Nicholas Pino, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Chemical Biology Tools for the Study of Aldehydes and Aldehyde-Related Phenomena in Biological Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/3/2022
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Sarah Altman, "Chemical Strategies for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/17/2022
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Alec Murray, "Neutralizing Nerve Agents: Advancements in Bioscavengers for Organophosphorus Poisoning"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    3/24/2022
  • 2079 Natural History Building

  Emily Geddes, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of predictive guidelines for small-molecule accumulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm    3/25/2022
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Lindsay Chatkewitz, UIUC, Final Defense, "Identification and Validation of Novel SULT2B1b Inhibitors"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am    3/30/2022
  • B102 Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)

  Aya Kelly, UIUC, Final Defense, "Unbiased Assessment of P-gp Efflux Towards Designing Blood—Brain Barrier Penetrant Compounds"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    3/31/2022
  • B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Justin Miller, UIUC, Final Defense, "Breaking Carbon-Carbon Bonds with Cytochrome P450s from Plants, Animals, and Bacteria"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/31/2022
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Austin Woodard, "Treating Cancer by Targeting Cell Surface Glycans"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    4/4/2022
  • 117 Roger Adams Lab

  Melissa Lucero, UIUC, Final Defense, "Rational Design of Chemical Tools for In Vivo Applications Via Photoacoustic Imaging"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/7/2022
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Alexis Lower, "Microbes: the Future of Sustainable Fashion"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    4/7/2022
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Prof. Han Xiao, Rice University, "Bring the Power of Antibodies to the Bone"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/14/2022
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Zhenxiang Zhao, "Chemical Biology Approaches for Targeted Protein Aggregate Degradation in Alzheimer’s Disease via Autophagy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm    6/17/2022

  Subhendu Pandit, UIUC, Final Defense, "Developing Nanomaterials for Biomolecular Sensing and Image-Guided Cancer Surgery"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    6/30/2022
  • C-605 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Lonnie Harris, UIUC, Final Defense, "Genomics-Guided Discovery and Characterization of Ancillary RiPP Modifications."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 8:30 am    7/20/2022
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Emily Tonogai, UIUC, Final Defense, "Identifying the Basis for Anticancer Synergy with PAC-1, with Applications to Meningioma"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    9/22/2022
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Angela Thomas, UIUC, "Switching Off/On CAR T Activity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    9/29/2022
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nora Liu, UIUC, "Design and Application of Fluorescent Amino Acids (FlAAs)"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/17/2022
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, University of Michigan, "Design Principles for Metalloprotein Chemistry"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/20/2022
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Citlali Gutierrez, UIUC, "Harnessing RSAM Enzymes: A New Era in Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/3/2022
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Riley Carter, UIUC, "Going with the Grain: Bringing N2 Fixation to Cereals"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm    11/8/2022
  • B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Mingkuan Lyu, UIUC, Final Defense, "Methods and Applications of Using DNA-Cleaving DNAzymes to Cleave Double-Stranded DNA”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/17/2022
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Daniel Greenan, UIUC, "Probing the Mechanism of Age-Related Muscle Atrophy with Small Molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    12/1/2022
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Craig M. Crews: Yale University, "PROTACs and Targeted Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/11/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Grace Kenney, Harvard University, "Identifying New Metalloenzyme Families Involved in Natural Product Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/18/2023
  • 612 Institute for Genomic Biology

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Madeline Kavanagh, The Scripps Research Institute, "Chemical Proteomics – Driving Biological Discovery and Therapeutic Development"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/31/2023
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Monica Neugebauer, Broad Institute of MIT, "Biocatalyst Discovery and Evolution: Halogenases and Base Editors"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm    2/3/2023
  • B102 Chem Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)

  Timothy Precord, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigation of Radical SAM-Mediated Thioether Installation in RiPP Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/2/2023
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Elisia Meyle, UIUC, "Strategies for In Situ Lipid Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    3/23/2023
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of Non-Hallucinogenic Serotonin-2A Receptor Agonists Inspired by Psychedelics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/6/2023
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nohemy Celis Chance, UIUC, "Increasing Probiotic Stickiness Mitigates the Effects of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/13/2023
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Diego Orea, UIUC, "Tick-Tock, Hack the Clock: Modulating the Circadian Rhythm with Small Molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    4/17/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor John McCutcheon, Arizona State University, "The origins and end points of cell-in-cell relationships"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    5/1/2023
  • B126 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Kristen Munoz, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Microbiome-Sparing Gram-Negative-Selective Antibiotics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    5/8/2023
  • NEW LOCATION! 117 RAL

  Kyle Shelton, Final Defense, UIUC, "A Journey through Bioinformatic Space with the RiPP Recognition Element"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    5/9/2023
  • 165 Noyes Lab

  Corinne Soutar, UIUC, Final Defense, "Structure and Function of Amphotericin B Aggregates"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am    6/2/2023
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Acid-Amplifying Polymers for Drug Delivery Applications."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    6/27/2023
  • 117 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Zhengxin Yu, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Amphiphilic Compounds as Therapeutic and Diagnostic Agents Targeting Amyloid Aggregates for Alzheimer's Disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    8/31/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Michael F. Freeman, University of Minnesota, "Structural and Metabolic Insights in RiPP Peptide Backbone α-N-methylation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 pm    9/1/2023
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Tung Le, UIUC, Final Defense, "Application of a Substrate-Tolerant Lanthipeptide Synthetase in Bioengineering Peptide Natural Products”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    9/18/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Klaus Schulten Distinguished Speaker Series in Biological Physics: Professor Rommie E. Amaro, University of California, San Diego, "In Situ Computational Microscopy of Viruses"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    9/21/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Christina Woo, Harvard University, "Reading and Rewriting Protein Modifications in Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/5/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Betsy Parkinson, Purdue University, "Utilizing Biocatalysis and Synthetic Chemistry to Access New Natural Products"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/12/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, "Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy and Beyond"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/23/2023
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Alice Y. Ting, Stanford University, "Engineering Proteins to Map and Manipulate Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    10/26/2023
  • 163 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Xiaopeng Liu, UIUC, "Controllable and Precise Drug Delivery with Bioorthogonal Chemistry""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:30 am    10/31/2023
  • 171 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Michael Lee, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Chemical Tools for Biomolecule Detection and Targeted Therapeutics for Precision Medicine"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    11/16/2023
  • 163 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Suri Bandyopadhyay, UIUC, "Biogenic Gas Vesicles as Ultrasonic Molecular Reporters"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    12/6/2023
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Sara Eslami, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigation of Lanthipeptides and their Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    12/7/2023
  • 163 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ethan Walker, UIUC, "Development of Alkene Metathesis in Living Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am    12/14/2023
  • 171 Roger Adams Laboratory

  Austin Weigle, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Selectivity Principles of Translocation Catalysis by Membrane Transporters"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    1/11/2024
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Emily Desormeaux, Final Defense, UIUC, "Mechanistic Studies of Lanthipeptide Biosynthetic Enzymes and Discovery of Novel Lanthipeptides".

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    1/11/2024
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Dr. John Mcintosh, Merck, "Evolving Ideal Syntheses of Therapeutics with Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/23/2024
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Joomyung 'Vicky' Jun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Rational Design and Facile Synthesis of Modular Small Molecule Tools for Chemical Biology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/30/2024
  • B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Kai Chen, University of California, Berkeley, "Exploring and Repurposing Nature’s Molecular Machineries for Applications in Chemistry and Biology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    1/31/2024
  • 1024 Chemistry Annex

  Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Xiaotang Lu, Harvard University, "From Chemistry to Circuitry: Decoding the Architecture of the Brain"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    2/1/2024
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Natural Products to See Microbes From Space"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    2/5/2024
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Laura M. K. Dassama, Stanford University, "Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Trafficking in Bacteria"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    2/29/2024
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Rachel Hammond, UIUC, "Small Molecules Toward an HIV-1 Cure"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/4/2024
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Jeff Chen, UIUC, "Engineering Immunological Adjuvants for Improved Vaccine Efficacy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm    4/11/2024
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory

  CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Dominic Luciano, UIUC, "GlycoRNA! A New Molecule in Immunology"

  • Religious/Cultural
• • 3:00 pm    6/21/2024
  • 1002 Lincoln Hall

  Marya Ornelas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Methods toward investigating viral RNA capping enzymes and antibody breadth expansion"

  • Seminar/Symposium