Sarah E. O’Connor, PhD
Director, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany
"Chemistry and Biology of Plant Natural Products"
Siobhan Brady, PhD
University of California, Davis; Department of Plant Biology
"Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism"
"Artificial Intelligence, Health, & Society"
Rashida Richardson
Director of Policy Research AI Now Institute
Kristian J. Hammond
Professor of Computer Science McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University
Uwe Rudolph, PhD
University of Illinois; Department of Comparative Biosciences
"GABAA Receptor Subtypes: A new perspective on functional selectivity of inhibition in the brain"
Catherine Klapperich, PhD
Boston University; Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Precision Diagnostics Center
"Paper and Microfluidic Systems for Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Continuous Physiological Monitoring"
CNRG is offering two Biocluster courses.
9:00-11:30am: Introduction to Linux class.
1:30-4:30pm:Introduction to Biocluster
Space is limited to 44 participants, register at http://www.igb.illinois.edu/biocluster-class-signup.
Erik R. Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Do’s and don’ts of the academic interview and the art of a successful job talk with the opportunity to receive feedback on an application package.
Erik R. Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Learn how to assemble an academic job application package with relevant comparisons to industry.
Wen Shan Yew, PhD
Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation, National University of Singapore
"Repurposing Biology through Synthetic Enzymology"
Pizza will be provided
The use of mechanistic and engineering principles in enzymology will be highlighted to demonstrate the utility of synthetic enzymology in a range of applications.
1040 NCSA
Ian Traniello
Neuroscience, University of Illinois
“What single-cell transcriptomics can teach us about the honey bee brain and behavior”
Please bring your own lunch. Coffee and cookies will be provided!