IGB Calendar: Past

Each lecture will be paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe.

“Healing from the Ground Up”
Healing from the Ground Up works to understand the interconnections between soil health and human health within a regional foodshed, specifically the soil and gut microbiome.

Anya Knecht
Farmer; Assistant Director for I-Regen at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Founder of Knecht Research Consulting and Design

Erin Meyer, MSFS, RD
Founder & Executive Director, Basilʼs Harvest; Clinical Associate, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria

Buffet-style lunch opens at 11:45

Register to attend at https://www.igb.illinois.edu/lunchbox

"Introduction to BookitLab"
Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities

Join via Zoom
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85934995263?pwd=eE9ZeXNuNFozNCtKdytYMTMyK3dQ…

Meeting ID: 859 3499 5263
Password: 166361

Peg McCarthy, PhD
James & Carolyn Frenkil Endowed Dean's Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology; University of Maryland School of Medicine

"Establishing Sex Differences in the Brain at the Intersection of the Nervous, Endocrine and Immune Systems"

Marni Boppart, PhD
Director of Strategic Initiatives for Kinesiology and Community Health
Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Full details and registration

"A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures"

Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant

Materials Science & Engineering

Holger Schmidt, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, Baskin School of Engineering; University of California Santa Cruz

"Integrated optofluidic devices for single molecule analysis"

"The sounds only some of us can hear: Studies on tinnitus and hyperacusis"

Fatima Husain
Professor of Speech and Hearing Science
Beckman Institute

Please join us to celebrate and congratulate Darci Edmonson on her retirement. Who will do all her work?

"Of mice, men, birds and snakes: An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates"

Molly Przeworski, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Systems Biology; Columbia University