2021 – 2022 Schedule

Check out our previous activities in the 2021-2022 school year

During the 2021-2022 school year, we conducted most of our activities through Blackboard.

Fall 2021

  • October 15, 2021 First meeting 12 p.m. on BB Collaborate Ultra (will be recorded)
    • to set up future schedules, modules, logic, and plans
  • October 29, 2021 Journal Club
    • Reviewing "Optical Tweezer" technique
    • 7 p.m. on Blackboard
  • November 12, 2021 Guest speaker
    • PhD student, current project
    • 7 p.m. on Blackboard

Spring 2022

  • January 13, 2022 First Meeting 7 p.m. on BB Collaborate Ultra
    • Set a weekly meeting time: Fri 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. (online). If there are any lab tours or guest talks scheduled, the time may vary.
    • Activities we will cover include
      • journal club (study group members)
      • guest talk (graduate students and faculty members)
      • tours (labs, companies)
      • career panel (senior/grad students sharing how to find a grad school/intern, etc)
      • potential student project and publications
    • ask everyone to spread the word and recruit people.
  • January 21, 2022 Journal Club
    • FLIM, by Dr. Wang
    • 7 p.m. on BB.
  • January 28, 2022 Career night
    • share special program, summer intern, and fellowship information, by Dr. Wang
    • 7 p.m. on BB
    • See content in the "career resources" folder
  • February 4, 2022 Journal Club
    • Retina OCT, by Alice Liu
    • 7 p.m. on BB
  • February 11, 2022 Guest talk
    • Uniaxially Prestressed Muscle Architecture in Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE), by Joseph Crutison (jcruti2@uic.edu), an MD/PhD student.
    • Keywords: Wave Propagation, Magnetic Resonance Elastography, Shear Modulus, Transverse Isotropy
    • 7 p.m. on BB
  • February 18, 2022 Lab tour
    • Dr. Yao's lab (west campus, 1905 W Taylor St, Chicago ), with OCT onsite demonstration
    • 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. RSVP
  • February 25, 2022 Lab tour
    • Dr. Royston's lab (842 W Taylor St. UIC East Campus SEL 1072)
    • Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer demonstration (Silvia Leccabue )
    • 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., RSVP
  • March 4, 2022 Guest Talk
    • Monitoring protein behaviors using fluorescent nano-antennas, by Haoran Jing and Thilini Parera, PhD students from Chemistry
    • 7 p.m. on BB
  • March 11, 2022 Journal Club
    • An inverse breathing capsulation system for cell delivery, by Safa Hameed
    • 7 p.m. on BB
  • March 18, 2022 Group discussion
    • officer election
    • promotion and registration
    • SPIE student chapter
    • future activities
    • IGNITE programming will occur on-campus on Saturday, April 2nd
  • March 25, 2022 No Meeting
    • Spring Break
  • March 31, 2022 Journal Club
Jonah from the Spille Group will present at 3:30 p.m.. He will talk about his work on visualizing the nuclear actin and the following related paper (attached):
You can join the meeting here:
  • April 1, 2022 Lab tour
    • Dr. Avanaki's lab (SEL-w 2025)
    • 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., RSVP
  • April 8, 2022 Journal Club
    • Fluorescent imaging of cancerous tissues for targeted surgery, by Alexandra Vorobyeva
    • 7 p.m., online
  • April 22, 2022 Special Talk
    • Research Symposium Keynote, by Dr. Wang
    • 7 p.m., online
  • May 5, 2022 Lab Tour
    • Dr. Klatt's lab (835 South Wolcott Ave, South Entrance, Room 110B), Brief lab tour and shadow the process of an MRE imaging experiment.
    • 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m., RSVP