Olga G. Nalbandov Lecture Fund
Overview
The Olga G. Nalbandov Lecture Fund provides support to enrich the campus intellectual environment in the life sciences. Funding of up to $30,000 is available to sponsor public lectures or symposia on current topics of interest in the fields of biological and biochemical sciences. Lectures may be stand-alone events or part of a larger conference or symposium.
Eligible expenses include speaker fees, travel, facility fees, catering costs, and other costs associated with events that center around the public lectures. Cost-sharing is strongly encouraged.
Applications
University of Illinois faculty and research staff are eligible to apply for Nalbandov funding. Learn more about how to apply for this opportunity.
Deadline to Apply: 7/14/2023
Review Committee
- May Berenbaum, Entomology
- Supriya Prasanth, Cell and Developmental Biology
- Cathy Murphy, Chemistry
- Rodney Johnson, Animal Sciences
- James Slauch, Microbiology
For more information or to discuss a proposal, please contact Melissa Edwards in the OVCRI.
Past Awards
- 2021
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- Plant Sciences Symposium
John Juvick, Crop Sciences
$3,000 - Microbial Systems Initiative—The Microbial Multiverse Symposium
Cari Vanderpool, Microbiology
$22,000 - Illinois Symposium for Reproductive Sciences
Ramona Nowak, Animal Sciences
$13,060
- Plant Sciences Symposium
- 2019
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- Rubisco Oxygenase Symposium
Nick Vasi, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
$15,000 - Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2020
Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Computer Science
$3,325 - Making the Invisible Visible: A Dialogue on Veteran Traumatic Brain Injury
Jeni Hunniecutt, Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education
$12,500 - SENSORIUM 2019: Hosting Professor Mary Stoddard
Mark Hauber, Animal Biology
$4,000 - Now, We're Taking on Cancer
Rex Gaskins, Animal Sciences
$15,000 - Inaugural Lecture of the Deans’ Distinguished Lecture in Engineering and Medicine: A Public Lecture by Victor Dzau, M.D.
Jessica Breitbarth, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
$16,000 - Public Lecture during NHGRI Workshop
Alaina Kanfer, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
$8,700
- Rubisco Oxygenase Symposium
- 2017
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- The Enduring Legacy of Sol Spiegelman
Nick Vasi, Institute for Genomic Biology
$11,990 - Outpacing Microbial Resistance
William Metcalf, Microbiology
$21,240
- The Enduring Legacy of Sol Spiegelman
- 2015
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- Looking in the Right Direction: Carl Woese and the New Biology
Nick Vasi, Institute for Genomic Biology
$19,000 - Plants In Silico: Towards Realizing the Opportunity
Steve Long, Plant Biology
$20,000 - Illinois Symposium for Reproductive Science
Romana Nowak, Animal Sciences
$12,500
- Looking in the Right Direction: Carl Woese and the New Biology
- 2013
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- Nanosensor Networks and Exabyte Analysis from Farm to Fork
Brian Cunningham, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
$10,000 - Feeding Nine Billion: A Path to Sustainable Agriculture
Evan DeLucia, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
$20,000 - Imaging at Illinois: Symposium on Emerging Trends in Elastography
Brad Sutton, Bioengineering
$12,000 - New Frontiers in Biochemistry and Biophysics of Cellular Membranes and Membrane Proteins*
Emad Tajkhorshid, Beckman Institute
$20,000
- Nanosensor Networks and Exabyte Analysis from Farm to Fork
- 2011
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- Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Workshop
Paul Kenis, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
$3,500 - Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Science 2011
Ann Nardulli, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
$20,850
- Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Workshop
- 2009
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- The Electronic and Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment Symposium
Timothy Lindsey, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
$25,000
- The Electronic and Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment Symposium
- 2007
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- Archea Symposium
Charles Miller, Microbiology
$25,000 - Art and the Brain
Jonathan Fineberg, Art and Design
$35,000 - 10,000 Francs Reward
Jonathan Fineberg, Art and Design
$35,000 - Nursing Home Air Health
Mark Clark, Civil Engineering
$20,000 (NOTE: support returned) - Lauterbur Memorial Symposium
Zhi-Pei Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
$25,000
- Archea Symposium
- 2004
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- Estrogens and Human Health
Romana Nowak, Animal Sciences
$24,000 - Zeugmatography and Recent Advances in MRI
Zhi-Pei Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
$30,000 - Transdisciplinary Symposium on Recent Mass Die-Offs of Lesser Flamingos in Eastern and Southern Africa
Val Beasley, Veterinary Biosciences
$10,000
- Estrogens and Human Health
- 2000
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- The Biology of Crop Response and Adaptation to Global Atmospheric Change
Stephen Long, Crop Sciences
$11,000 - Biocomplexity and Biodiversity
John Cheeseman, Plant Biology; May Berenbaum, Entomology
$27,000 - Membrane Proteins: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Understanding Cellular Function
Colin Wraight, Biochemistry; Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Chemistry
$22,500
- The Biology of Crop Response and Adaptation to Global Atmospheric Change
- 1998
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- Aging: The Impact of Nutrition and Exercise
Karen Chapman-Novakofski, Food Science and Human Nutrition
$20,000 - Zeugmatography: Before and Beyond
Zhi-Pei Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
$10,000
- Aging: The Impact of Nutrition and Exercise
- 1997
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- Bioinformatics, Structure, and Function
Shankar Subramaniam, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
$10,000 - Estrogens and Human Health
Janice Bahr, Animal Sciences; Benita Katenellenbogen, Molecular and Integrative Physiology; David Sherwood, Medical Molecular Physiology
$22,000
- Bioinformatics, Structure, and Function
- 1996
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- Conference on the Development and Evolution of Brain Centers for Learning
Susan Fahrbach, Entomology
$20,000
- Conference on the Development and Evolution of Brain Centers for Learning
*Funding returned
About the Nalbandovs
Andrew and Olga Nalbandov were both highly regarded researchers in reproductive physiology. Andrew joined the faculty in 1940 and was Professor of Animal Physiology and Zoology at the time of his retirement in 1970. Olga worked as a Research Associate from 1959-1987. Olga was also an alumnae of the University (Ph.D., Chemistry, 1946).