June – CSB Social
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.
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Networking as a Scientist and Social Media
Instructors: 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
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. … Continued
Science Argumentation in Public Spaces
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 … Continued
CSB SynBREU & DeFeo Symposium Social & Poster Session
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 … Continued
Cell Free Systems Conference
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 … Continued
CSB Open House
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 … Continued
ReFeyn Mass Photometry Day
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 … 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Campus 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, United StatesThe Research-In-Progress (RIP) Meetings aim to highlight ongoing, unpublished work by students and postdoctoral fellows in CSB.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
CSB Seminar Series – Jennifer Brophy
Jennifer Brophy is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Details for the seminar are as follows: Date: Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 Time: 9:30-10:30am Location: Evanston Campus
CSB Seminar Series – Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald is the New York Times best-selling author of 'We Are Eating the Earth'. Details for the seminar are as follows: Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 Time: 4:00-5:00pm Location: Evanston … Continued
CSB Seminar Series – Yanhong Zhang
Dr. Yanhong Zhang is the Interim Executive Director / Director of Research at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIUE. Details for the seminar are as follows: Date: Tuesday, November … Continued
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