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Announcements for the week of April 12, 2026
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Neuroscience Program Events
Seminar will discuss how cellular communication breaks down in the meninges in CNS autoimmune disease.
April 14, 2026 4 p.m. • Beckman Institute 1005
Adrienne Antonson • Neuroscience Program
Spatially charting molecular cell types at single-cell resolution across the entire 3D volume of the brain is critical to illustrating the molecular basis of the tissue anatomy and functions. Yet, there is still a big gap between spatial cell atlas and tissue function. In this presentation, I will introduce a few experimental and computational advances in the mapping of RNA life cycle in our lab that further enable multi-modality deep profiling of cell types and states in situ, bridging single-cell molecular profiles with single-cell functional status in intact biological tissues and accelerating gene-to-function discoveries in development and diseases.
April 21, 2026 4 p.m. • Beckman Institute 1005
Boxuan Zhao • Neuroscience Program
Seminars of Interests
Click below for the Program / Schedule for April 22-23rd
Speakers
- Judson A. Brewer, MD, PhD - Going Beyond Anxiety: Can Insights from the Science of Habit Change Help How we View and Treat Anxiety?
- Corey Keller, MD, PhD - Precision Neurotherapeutics: Biomarker-guided Neuromodulation for Psychiatry
- Lisa McTeague, PhD - Triangulating Treatment Personalization: Psychophysiology, Imaging and Engineering
- David Rubinow, MD - Depression and Reproduction: An Evolving State of Mind
- Leah H. Somerville, PhD - Building Complex Emotions and Tuning Emotion-Guided Behavior through Adolescence
Remote registration
April 12, 2026 7 a.m. - April 23, 2026 1 p.m. • Zoom
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"
Speaker
- Art Arnold, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
April 14, 2026 12 p.m. • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
April 15, 2026 4 p.m. • 116 RAL
Cale Fleming • Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Ajay Jain treats pediatric patients with serious digestive diseases, including liver disease, intestinal failure, and conditions requiring total parenteral nutrition. He is actively involved in research on the topics of gastric bypass, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), total parenteral nutrition, liver transplantation, and more.
Dr. Jain is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Gastroenterology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He is Medical Director for Pediatric Liver Transplantation and Chairman of the Nutritional Advisory Committee at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.
Dr. Jain is the president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and a member of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He is active with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Speaker
- Ajay Jain, MD, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pediactrics
April 16, 2026 11 a.m. • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Speakers
- Ramón E. Soto-Crespo: "Can the Bejuco Speak? The Origin of Puerto Rico’s Ecological Literature"
- Alison Bell: "The Evolution of Family Life in a Small Fish"
April 16, 2026 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. • Levis Faculty Center, Room 208
April 16, 2026 4 p.m. • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago "Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time" "Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices"
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- Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
April 21, 2026 12 p.m. • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
April 23, 2026 4 p.m. • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Professional Development
If you're graduating in the coming year and want a faculty job, you need to start preparing now. This summer is a crucial time to get organized and prepare application materials. Join us for this workshop to get tips on how to get ready for a faculty job search this fall. The workshop will address how the faculty job search process works, all of the application documents you will need to prepare, how to stay organized during the search, and more. We will also address how changing policy and economic landscapes might affect the 2026 academic job search. No registration required. This workshop will take place on Zoom at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops *If you require any disability related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu
April 23, 2026 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
gradsuccess@illinois.edu • Graduate College Career Development
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