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.
I Hotel Conference Center
1900 S. First Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820
The symposium celebrates and highlights the centrality of Bill Ogren’s discovery of Rubisco oxygenase activity launching whole new fields of inquiry and whole new levels of understanding literally encompassing the enzyme to the globe. Join us as we hear from speakers representing leadership in research on environmental dynamics from the microbial to the global that Ogren’s discovery has fundamentally impacted.
Taher Saif, PhD
University of Illinois, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
"Multi-cellular biohybrid robots - a few lessons learned, a few challenges to overcome"
View PosterJames Tiedje, PhD
Michigan State University; University Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences; Director of MSU Center for Microbial Ecology
"Microbiomes Under Selection"
View PosterJian Hua, PhD
Cornell University; Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Biology Section
"Plant Autoimmunity, Triggers and Players"
View PosterJames Eberwine, PhD
Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania
"Beyond Single Cells: Subcellular Single Organelle ‘Omics and Functional Genomics"
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Stacey Finley, PhD
University of Southern California; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Computational modeling of the tumor ecosystem"
View PosterSrikanth Singamaneni, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis; The Lilyan & E. Lisle Hughes Professor, McKelvey School of Engineering
"Harnessing Plasmonic-Fluors for Ultrasensitive and Minimally-invasive Bio-diagnostics"
View PosterKim Barrett, PhD
UC Davis School of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology
"Intestinal epithelial reprogramming in the pathogenesis of infectious diarrhea"
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Steve Quake, PhD
Stanford University; Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering; Co-President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Physics
Ron Milo, PhD
Weizmann Institute; Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Associate Professor of Nutrition, Health Innovation Professor, and the Director of Women’s Health, Hormones and Metabolism lab
“Spatial genomic and metabolic regulation of therapy response in metastatic breast cancer”
Pamela Martinez Vargas, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Assistant Professor , Department of Microbiology and Department of Statistics
Christina Warinner, PhD
Harvard University; Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Daniel Bolnick, PhD
University of Connecticut; Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
