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.

"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

Selim 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"

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

"Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)"

Reza Rajabi Toustani, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Instrument: Minflux

Lunch will be provided

All IGB members welcome to attend this working group event

12pm-12:20pm: Hannah Holscher, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, UIUC
"Dietary intervention studies: how to enhance human health through dietary modulation of the gastrointestinal microbiome"

12:25pm-12:50pm: Yang-Yu Liu, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Predicting metabolomic profiles from microbial composition and diet through neural ordinary differential equations"

12:50pm-1pm: General Discussion

Lunch will be provided

We encourage graduate students postdocs and professors from both biological and analytical research groups to attend these seminars. Click here for full info.

GNDP is hosting a monthly reading group 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. We will meet in person every third Tuesday of the month at 4:00 p.m. Central in 612 IGB. Please contact Jess Quicksall (jessicaq@illinois.edu) if you would like to be adding to the email list.

Robert Krauss, PhD
Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

"Quiescence and Activation of Muscle Stem Cells"