Contact name: Michael Jacobs
Contact email: mijacobs@illinois.edu

Three graduate students will present their research at the final Beckman Graduate Student Seminar of the fall 2021 semester: Coltan Parker, neuroscience program; Sara Moshage, mechanical science and engineering; and Eddie Jira, chemical and biomolecular engineering.

The event takes place Wednesday, Dec. 1 at noon. Register to attend on Zoom.

Contact name: Darin Doty
Contact email: ddoty@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-6553

Kevin Clark and Matthew Moore will speak at the Beckman Institute's virtual Director's Seminar at noon Thursday, Dec. 2. Kevin Clark, a former postdoctoral fellow, will be discussing "Deciphering the Function of RNA Modifications in the Central Nervous System." Matthew Moore, a former postdoctoral fellow, will be discussing "Multi-Method Investigations of Individual Differences across Spatial and Temporal Scales in the Human Brain."  Register to attend on Zoom.

Contact name: Macie Sinn
Contact email: sinn1@illinois.edu

Title: "Simulating Nucleic Acid Molecules and Nucleic Acid Protein Complexes" 

Speaker: Karissa Sanbonmatsu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Dr. Sanbonmatsu will discuss how she uses variety of techniques to study the kinetics and thermodynamics of tRNA translocation through the ribosome.

This meeting is free and open to the public. Attend in person at 3269 Beckman Institute or join via Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89129469661?pwd=L2wxeWJ1TGRMK1ArZEh6cktjUVJkQT09 

The event will take place at 2:30 p.m. on December 6.

Contact name: Patty Jones
Contact email: pmjones5@illinois.edu

The Beckman Institute Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar Series is held most Wednesdays throughout the fall semester via Zoom. Tune in to learn from field experts about topics including ethics, authorship, and data management in the research environment.

Topic: Research data management

Speaker: Heidi Imker, director of Research Data Service and associate professor in the University Library.

This meeting is free and open to the public. Register in advance on Zoom.

Contact name: Macie Sinn
Contact email: sinn1@illinois.edu

Title: "A Dance to the Music of Time"

Speaker: Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Rosemary Braun will discuss her recent work on nonparametric, model-free methods to analyze circadian transcriptomic data by exploiting results from dynamical systems theory, nonlinear dimension reduction, and topological data analysis.

This meeting is free and open to the public. Attend in person at 3269 Beckman Institute or join via Zoom:

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89410261691?pwd=eEtoMjZXMWVZeWtoQUpNMGtSVmpVZz09

The event will take place at 2:30 p.m. on December 13.