Join us for a one-day virtual symposium featuring an international panel of speakers on the latest advances and challenges in genetic analysis of marine protists, with topics covering tools and techniques for model and non-model organisms.
View the agenda and register here.
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
612 Conference Center
Christina Laukaitis, MD, PhD
Medical Genetics, Carle Illinois College of Medicine; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Understanding the etiology of hypermobile EDS (hEDS): a connective tissue disorder with complicated genetics"
Heidi Imker, PhD
Director, Research Data Service (RDS)
Elaine & Allen Avner Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"What To Expect From NIH’s New Data Management and Sharing Policy"
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
612 Conference Center
Daniel Bolnick, PhD
University of Connecticut; Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
"An Evolutionary Pyrrhic Victory: Sticklebacks' Gain and Loss of a Costly Immune Response to Tapeworm Infection"
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
612 Conference Center
Christina Warinner, PhD
Harvard University; Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
IGB Concourse Level
Have you ever been curious about the DEI conversations at the IGB? Are you interested in suggesting future programming? Would you like to give feedback about what the IGB could do to be more inclusive? Do you just want to say hi and meet new people? Learn about the IGB Diversity Task Force while sharing some coffee and cookies!
Spice Box Cafe, 2nd Floor Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL, 61801
Each lecture will be paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe.
“Spicing up a Food Product Development Capstone Course with Human Centered Design Zest!”
Dawn Bohn, PhD
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Saadeddine Shehab, PhD
Siebel Center for Design
Buffet-style lunch opens at 11:45
Register to attend at https://www.igb.illinois.edu/lunchbox
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
612 Conference Center
"Spatial Distribution of Virus and Innate Immune Response"
Elizabeth Rowland, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Microbiology
Lunch will be provided
Online
Srikanth 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"
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
612 Conference Center
"Improving DATA Workflows"
Daniel Davidson, Director of CNRG and Research Computing
Lunch will be provided