IGB Calendar: Past

Join Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Dean Rashid Bashir (CGD/M-CELS/RBTE) to explore the grand opportunities to address grand challenges across engineering, biology, and medicine during COVID-19. Dean Bashir will give a closer look into Grainger College of  Engineering’s response to the COVID-19 crisis including his work developing COVID-19 diagnostics. Sponsored by the Don and Catherine Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society.

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Join Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Professor Cris Hughes to discuss recent and rapid advancements in forensic genomics analyses while also exploring the ethical, legal, and social stakes. Sponsored by the Don and Catherine Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society.

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Join Professor Brian Cunningham, Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and leader of the Center for Genomic Diagnostics at the IGB, for an interactive discussion.

“Digital Resolutions Sensing: New Approaches in Cancer and COVID-19”

Join us via Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/409255484?pwd=RjdReWlsNUxNODgrZWltazhBd0Q1dz…

EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Sponsored by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Committee on Diversity (IGB-COD), this roundtable will be an opportunity for the IGB community (and broader campus community) to exchange ideas on how to create a more inclusive, diverse and welcoming culture in STEM fields. The IGB-COD will provide an update on past and upcoming activities and events. IGB-COD members will also gather feedback and ideas about current and proposed practices to create a more welcoming environment in our community.

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IGB Outreach and Communications Group

"Can You Wield the Gauntlet?"

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

"Epigenetic embedding of early life adversity"

Elisabeth Binder, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich

SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED

The symposium organizing committee, in consultation with university administration, have decided that it is prudent and necessary to postpone the Rubisco Oxygenase Symposium due to the COVID-19 situation. We are currently looking into new dates for the symposium. We sincerely regret any inconvenience that this may cause.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dan Davidson, Director of CNRG and Research Computing

"Organizing your Code with GitHub"

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Turlough Finan, PhD
McMaster University; Professor, Department of Biology

"Deconstructing Sinorhizobium - towards a minimal genome for symbiotic nitrogen fixation"

Rachel Braz Arcanjo, Professor Romana Nowak's lab

"Environmental Toxicants and their Effects on Female Reproductive Functions"