BTP & CSB Seminar Series – Brad Merrill
**This is a joint event hosted by the Biotechnology Training Program.** Brad Merrill is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at UIC. Details for the seminar … Continued
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CSB Seminar Series – Cameron Kim
Cameron Kim is the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of BME at Duke University Details for the seminar are as follows: Date: … Continued
MRSEC & CSB Seminar Series – Canan Atılgan
This is a joint event with MRSEC. Faculty host - Sinan Keten. "Leveraging Allostery for the Rational Design and Performance Ranking of Fluorescent Protein-Based Biosensors" Canan Atılgan is a faculty … Continued
June – CSB Social
Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United StatesJoin 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.
Networking as a Scientist and Social Media
Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United StatesInstructors: Joshua Leonard and Gabe Rocklin Friday, June 27th, 2025: 1:30-2:30pm, Evanston Campus Developing presentations for scientific audiences, elevator pitches for short interactions, and best practices for networking at conferences.
Data Interpretation, Visualization, and Presentation
Chicago Campus 303 East Superior Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesInstructors: 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 StatesInstructor: 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 StatesJoin 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 … Continued
Cell Free Systems Conference
Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United StatesThe 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 StatesFirst 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 … Continued
ReFeyn Mass Photometry Day
Evanston Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United StatesThis 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 StatesThe 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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