Department of Chemistry Master Calendar

This calendar includes all events from the following individual calendars: Department of Chemistry Alumni Events (events for an alumni audience), Department Events (events of general interest and/or relevant to all Chemistry research areas), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Events, Public Events, and events related to Chemistry research areas and programs (Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Inorganic Chemistry & Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry), as well as Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminars & Events.

Monday, September 29, 2025

Dedication & Grand Opening: Peter Beak Advanced Synthesis Laboratory

2:00 - 4:00 pm

250 Noyes Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University, "Identifying Electrolyte Reaction Mechanisms at Battery Electrodes Toward PFAS-Free Electrolytes" (host: Theresa Schoetz)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Haonan Chen CHEM 535 Seminar "Stereoediting via Asymmetric Hydrogen Atom Transfer"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Prof. Prashant Jain, UIUC, "Lights, Computer, Action!"

2:00

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla) "Multiscale dynamics of neuronal bioelectricity"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

Literature Seminar, "Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry Blood Analysis in Forensics”, Jennifer Salaiza

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 6, 2025

Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Noyes Laboratory, Room 100
- Festival/Celebration

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, "Exploring and Engineering Iron Enzymes", Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota

3:30 pm 10/07/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

280 MRL
- Seminar/Symposium
CCIL Distinguished Lecture Series features Illinois chemistry alum Elaine Fuchs (BS, '72)

1:00 pm

NCSA 1040

The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) will be hosting a Distinguished Speaker Seminar featuring Dr. Elaine Fuchs (BS, '72), an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University. Her talk is titled, “Skin Stem Cells in Stress, Inflammation and Cancer.“
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Oleg Prezhdo, University of New Mexico, "Quantum Dynamics in Optoelectronic Materials"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Frank Zhang CHEM 575 Seminar: Bioremediation 3.0: A Brave New Paradigm

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University, "Structure and mechanisms of subtype-specific binding and allosteric modulation in GABAA receptors"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

7:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Lecture

Friday, October 10, 2025

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Iron Carbenes for Olefin Metathesis", Professor Vlad Iluc, University of Notre Dame

3:30 pm

TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Joseph D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology

4:00 pm

Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Kameron Wildeman CHEM 535 Seminar "Going Sub-Stoichiometric: The Evolution of Samarium(II) Catalysis"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis, "The Environment Sculpts the Cell: pH, Peptidoglycan, and β-lactam Resistance"

4:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

Literature Seminar, "Optimizing Ancient DNA Sequencing through Sample Preparation", Nina Wang

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Peptide Frameworks as Microcosms of Proteins", Professor Andy Nguyen, University of Illinois Chicago

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium
M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

7:00 pm
- Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Prof. Yang Yang, UW Madison, "Bridging Quantum and Classical: An Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Related Chemistry"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

5:00 - 6:00 pm

163 Noyes Lab
- Informational

Friday, October 24, 2025

"Charting Cellular Landscapes in Biomedical Research with Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry", Professor Jeff Spraggins, Vanderbilt University

4:00 pm

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar: "From Poison to Messenger: Cyanide As An Emerging Gasotransmitter"

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar: "Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Potential for Broad Spectrum Antivirals through Host-Targeting Therapeutics

12:00 pm

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab 419
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Literature Seminar, TBD, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
- Conference/Workshop