Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Are you interested in science, art, drawing, tea, or good company?Are you interested in science, art, drawing, tea, or good company?

If so, our new scientific illustration club is for you! No art experience necessary. Join our casual monthly meetups to drink tea and engage in whatever illustration project you are currently working on, stuck on, or avoiding. No project in the pipeline? No problem! A scientific specimen and basic drawing supplies will be provided at each meeting.

Feel free to bring your lunch and any art supplies necessary for your personal project.

Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Biohub 
"Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time"  "Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices"

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.

Bidisha Chakraborty is in the Nair lab. Research in the Nair lab focuses on understanding the basis for regulation of bacteria by small molecule natural products. Our laboratory uses classical biochemical and microbiological techniques, in combination with biophysical methods (in particular X-ray crystallography) to decipher how microbes utilize small molecules to establish ecological niches, and combat against the colonization of antagonistic species that may compete for limited resources. This research focus is predicated upon the notion that knowledge of such interactions drives the discovery and development of natural products that can be used to combat the growth of pathogenic bacteria.

Join us for an evening of scientific illustration at our free workshop! State-of-the-art microscopes will be on display with biological samples for you to view and enjoy. We will begin by drawing microscope samples in pencil and then watercolor those drawings, in the tradition of scientific illustration. As you work, scientists from the IGB will be available to answer your questions about microscopy, biological sciences, and genomics. This work is supported in part by an Urbana Arts Grant.

If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact Corinne Campbell at cannava2@illinois.edu or Julia Pollack at jpollac2@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.

Through the Lunchbox series, members from across the campus talk to the participants about the interconnectivity between food, science, and culture, and how food shapes our individual experiences. 

"Microbiology, math, and models to help people make better food safety decisions"

Matthew Stasiewicz, PhD
Associate Professor of Applied Food Safety
Food Science & Human Nutrition

Art Arnold, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

"Changing the conceptual framework for understanding sex differences in physiology and disease"

Join us for an evening of scientific illustration at our free workshop! State-of-the-art microscopes will be on display with biological samples for you to view and enjoy. We will begin by drawing microscope samples in pencil and then watercolor those drawings, in the tradition of scientific illustration. As you work, scientists from the IGB will be available to answer your questions about microscopy, biological sciences, and genomics. This work is supported in part by an Urbana Arts Grant.

If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact Corinne Campbell at cannava2@illinois.edu or Julia Pollack at jpollac2@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
 

"Enzyme Function Initiative"

Russell Davidson
Research Programmer, CNRG 
 

The EFI hosts a globally accessible web resource to run "genomic enzymology" tools that identify iso-functional protein families and enrich annotations of undercharacterized enzymes. Through this website, thousands of monthly users come to the IGB to run these bioinformatic calculations. Since 2012, CNRG has hosted the EFI web resource by providing stable computing and maintenance services. Come for the food, stay to learn how CNRG can help increase the global-reach and stability of your scientific software tools.

Accommodations

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. For specific needs, please contact facilities@igb.illinois.edu