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Beth Stadtmueller, PhD
Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"Investigating and expanding the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies"

Jesse Dill, PhD
Senior Director of Business Development, Ginkgo Bioworks

“Some lessons learned in a journey from grad school to industry, to R&D funding, and back”

Ann-Perry Witmer, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Applied Research Institute
Dr. Witmer will discuss designing technologies that align with the knowledge, people, place and time of societies, on contextual process methodology, and her work on designing drinking-water systems. 

Registration at https://go.illinois.edu/WomenInScienceDec23

Yamuna Krishnan, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago

"Next Generation Targeting has Organelle-level precision"

A monthly meeting with IGB Spatial Omics Initiative and CAIM to discuss spatial omics. The goal is to build relationships and develop collaborative proposals at the intersection of biology and analytics. Lunch will be provided. Join the mailing list or the Slack channel for updates and networking, or contact spatial@igb.illinois.edu with questions.

Each lecture will be paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe.

“Hungry for Equality"

Janett Barragán Miranda
Assistant Professor, Latina/Latino Studies

Buffet-style lunch opens at 11:45

Register to attend at https://www.igb.illinois.edu/lunchbox

Amy Baker, PhD
Research Veterinary Medical Officer, USDA-ARS-National Animal Disease Center; Iowa State University

"Influenza A Virus and the Confluence Between Swine and Human Health"

A monthly meeting to discuss computational microbial genomics. New complex questions in microbial function and ecology are stretching the limits of existing computational analytical tools. The Computational Microbial Genomics working group aims to bring together microbiologists and computational scientists to address this gap. Lunch will be provided. Join the mailing list or the Slack channel for updates and networking, or contact microgeno@igb.illinois.edu with questions.

Sean Gibbons, PhD
Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator at the Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington

"Engineering the metabolic outputs of the human gut microbiome through microbial community-scale metabolic modeling"

Learn how Wikipedia can perpetuate inequalities in STEM representation and what you can do about it. Our librarians have created a list of pages that require your help to make them better and increase their visibility. With guest speaker Jamie Flood, Senior Wikipedia and Outreach Coordinator with the USDA National Agricultural Library. Lunch provided, register at go.igb.illinois.edu/Wikipedia.