Weekly seminars draw a crowd in person and online.

The QCB Seminar Series presents speakers from around the world whose work is of interest to QCB member researchers. All seminars are open to anyone interested in attending.

Upcoming Sessions

All seminars are held from 2-3 p.m. Central Time (United States) in Beckman 3269 and on Zoom, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served beginning at 1:30 p.m. by Beckman 3151.

View past seminar presentations on our YouTube channel.

Seminar attendees enjoy refreshments before the seminar.

August 2026

August 28 Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab: Agentic AI for Bio-Molecular Modeling and Simulations: Lessons Learned in Designing Enzymes and Bio-Therapeutics

September 2026

September 18 Hyun Youk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Yeast physiology: from normal growth to physiological limits
September 25 Richard Sever, co-founder bioRxiv: Preprints and the future of publishing

October 2026

October 9 Villa Cisse Scholar Lightning Talks: Orion Kosiec, Joshua Lin, Aryan Sachdev, Justin Stapp, Kevin Wu

October 16 Auinash Kalsotra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: RNA Splicing in the Heart: Beat the Alternative

October 23 David Deamer, University of California, Santa Cruz: Nucleic acids were likely to be present on the early Earth before life began

November 2026

November 6 Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign