CBI Seminars and Annual Symposium

The CBI Seminar Series is a noontime lecture series that is attended not only by CBI-TG faculty and fellows but also by Chemical Biology faculty and graduate students as well as other interested parties from across the University of Illinois campus.

Second and third year CBI-trainees invite seminar speakers and serve as their hosts during their visits. Fourth year trainees make a formal presentation as part of the CBI series.

Upcoming speakers include:

The CBI Annual Symposium is held on a Friday in the first few weeks of the fall semester and serves to welcome incoming CBI trainees and Chemical Biology graduate students to the University.

The 5th Annual CBI Symposium was held August 28, 2009 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in B102 CLSL. Professor Suzanne Walker from the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School was the keynote speaker. Her talk was titled "Strategies for the Discovery of Novel Antibiotics".

Second and third year CBI trainees coordinate the symposium and welcome reception. They invite and host a highly visible keynote speaker working at the chemistry biology interface and may, when they have achieved advanced status, present their research. Fifth Annual Symposium Poster (schedule pdf)