Previous IGB seminars approved for public viewing can be accessed via our YouTube channel.
For all IGB events, gender neutral bathrooms are available on floors 1 and 2 of the IGB gatehouse, open during the hours of 8am to12pm and 1pm to 5pm. A private lactation room for IGB-affiliated members is available by request, see the IGB reception desk for access. Baby changing stations are available in the restrooms on the concourse level.
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Shana Kelley, PhD
Inaugural President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
"Deploying Bioanalytical Platforms to Probe Inflammation and Immunity"
Sponsored by Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Bioengineering, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Department of Chemistry, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
View PosterSelim Unlu, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
"Interferometric Reflection Imaging Sensor from Multiplexed Molecular Affinity Measurements to Counting Single Analytes"
View Poster"Crafting the Art of Science: a Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes"
Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager, IGB
Topic: Art of Science
Lunch will be provided
The Spatial Omics Initiative monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, jointly with CAIM.
Graduate students from biological and analytical research groups encouraged to attend, present work, and participate in collective discussions. Lunch will be provided. Click here for full info.
Liewei Wang, PhD
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics;
Mayo Clinic Rochester
"Individualized therapy: Discovery and Translation"
View Poster"Mechanics to microstructure: Image-based modeling of the extracellular matrix"
Callan Luetkemeyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, MechSE
Lunch will be provided
Françoise Baylis, PhD
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University
"Designer Babies: What are they & do we want them?"
Chancellor Ballroom
Reception immediately following
Co-sponsored by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Humanities Research Institute
View PosterChristina Warinner, PhD
Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute and the Department of Anthropology; Harvard University
"A tale of two sugars: The epic human story of amylose and lactose"
View Poster2410 IGB
GNDP is hosting a monthly reading group the 3rd Tuesday of each month on spatial transcriptomics this semester. The goal is to learn about this new technology, with a focus on how it can be applied to address new questions in brain and behavior. Please contact Jess Quicksall (jessicaq@illinois.edu) if you would like to attend, virtual/hybrid format.
"Single cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of adult honeybee phenotypes"
Alex Schrader, Chemistry Doctoral Candidate, Han Lab
Instrument: Widefield Microscope
Lunch will be provided
Ross Wantland
Director of Curriculum Development and Education
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Enhancing Our Cross-Cultural Mentorship"
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) monthly working group facilitates the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods, covering such topics as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, biomolecular networks in space and time explored using single-cell biophysics, microbiome dynamics and methods for control, and cancer genomics
Graduate students from biological and analytical research groups encouraged to attend, present work, and participate in collective discussions. Lunch will be provided. Click here for full info.
Sushmita Roy, PhD
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; University of Wisconsin - Madison
Learn about IGB research, hear about current issues in the life sciences, and connect with others at the poster session at the 2023 Fellows Symposium. With keynotes lectures from Melissa Cregger, Staff Scientist in the Integrative Microbiomics Group, Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Edward DeLong, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, and Visiting Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.
To register and submit a poster for the competition please visit fellows.igb.illinois.edu.
Cafeteria & Company, 208 W Main St, Urbana
Join us for the Art of Science 13.0 at Cafeteria & Company in Urbana. Opening night on May 5th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm, and an additional showing on May 7th from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
Sponsored by the IGB, BodyWork Associates, and the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society
View PosterThe Spatial Omics Initiative monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, jointly with CAIM.
Graduate students from biological and analytical research groups encouraged to attend, present work, and participate in collective discussions. Lunch will be provided. Click here for full info.
2410 IGB
GNDP is hosting a monthly reading group the 3rd Tuesday of each month on spatial transcriptomics this semester. The goal is to learn about this new technology, with a focus on how it can be applied to address new questions in brain and behavior. Please contact Jess Quicksall (jessicaq@illinois.edu) if you would like to attend, virtual/hybrid format.
Stephanie Seidlits, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering; University of Texas at Austin
