The CBI Annual Symposium is held the first Friday of the Fall Semester and serves to welcome incoming CBI trainees and Chemical Biology graduate students to the University.

The 3rd Annual CBI Symposium will be held August 31, 2007 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in B102 CLSL. Professor Michael H. Gelb will be the keynote speaker. The title of his talk is "Newborn Screening for Lysosomal Storage Diseases: A Marriage of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Enzymology and Mass Spectrometry".

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. Nearly 100 faculty and students attended the 2nd Annual CBI Symposium held August 25, 2006.

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 UIUC 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: