CSB Events Calendar

Data Interpretation, Visualization, and Presentation

Chicago Campus 303 East Superior Street, Chicago, IL, United States

Instructors: Yogesh Goyal & Ashty Karim Tuesday, July 15th, 2025: 9:00-10:30am, Chicago Campus This workshop will cover understanding data collection, statistical significance, data interpretation, reproducibility, using models, and reformulating hypotheses. Additionally, constructing high-impact figures from collected data will be examined.

Science Argumentation in Public Spaces

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

Instructor: Dylan Brown, PhD Student Monday, August 4th, 2025: 9:00-10:00am, Evanston Campus This workshop will focus on engaging with the public about science, how to build arguments about hot scientific topics and how to purposely engage with the public.

CSB SynBREU & DeFeo Symposium Social & Poster Session

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

Join us at our upcoming social event where we celebrate our 2025 cohort of our SynBREU and DeFeo programs and immerse yourself in a vibrant community of synthetic biologists. Connect and engage with fellow students, postdocs, staff, and faculty over refreshments.

Cell Free Systems Conference

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

The Cell Free Systems Conference will provide a broad overview of the research and industrial applications in the field. This research encompasses a variety of fields and topics — including diagnostics, protein engineering, manufacturing, circuit design, synthetic cells, high-throughput characterization, fundamental research into chemistry of life, and other areas. The program is unique in that … Continued

CSB Open House

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

First year graduate students are highly encouraged to come and meet CSB labs they're interested in! Meet CSB trainees and faculty Learn about research across CSB labs Ice cream and snacks will be provided Hosted by the CSB Trainee Association (CTA)

ReFeyn Mass Photometry Day

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

This free event will include research talks, product demos and food. Mass photometry is a newer technique that uses scatter data to size protein, DNA, or RNA samples. It can also be used to look at protein oligomerization, protein-protein interaction and viral loading. Registration can be accessed through the QR code in the flier below. … Continued

October – Research In Progress Meeting

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

The Research-In-Progress (RIP) Meetings aim to highlight ongoing, unpublished work by students and postdoctoral fellows in CSB. These monthly meetings strengthen our research and foster a more collaborative research environment by organizing the diverse sets of expertise within CSB and our greater research community to discuss new results, suggest future experiments, and brainstorm potential applications. … Continued

CSB Seminar Series – Jennifer Brophy

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

Jennifer Brophy is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Event details coming soon!

November – Research In Progress Meeting

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

The Research-In-Progress (RIP) Meetings aim to highlight ongoing, unpublished work by students and postdoctoral fellows in CSB. These monthly meetings strengthen our research and foster a more collaborative research environment by organizing the diverse sets of expertise within CSB and our greater research community to discuss new results, suggest future experiments, and brainstorm potential applications. … Continued

December – Research In Progress Meeting

Chicago Campus 303 East Superior Street, Chicago, IL, United States

The Research-In-Progress (RIP) Meetings aim to highlight ongoing, unpublished work by students and postdoctoral fellows in CSB. These monthly meetings strengthen our research and foster a more collaborative research environment by organizing the diverse sets of expertise within CSB and our greater research community to discuss new results, suggest future experiments, and brainstorm potential applications. … Continued

December – CSB Social

Chicago Campus 303 East Superior Street, Chicago, IL, United States

Join us at our upcoming social event and immerse yourself in a vibrant community of synthetic biologists. Connect and engage with fellow students, postdocs, staff, and faculty over refreshments.

January – Research In Progress Meeting

Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United States

The Research-In-Progress (RIP) Meetings aim to highlight ongoing, unpublished work by students and postdoctoral fellows in CSB. These monthly meetings strengthen our research and foster a more collaborative research environment by organizing the diverse sets of expertise within CSB and our greater research community to discuss new results, suggest future experiments, and brainstorm potential applications. … Continued

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