Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science. Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

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Dr. Jonathan Satin, a Professor in the Department of Physiolgy at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine will present a seminar titled, "The L-type calcium channel as a target for heart failure revealed by accessory protein Rrad."

Become familiar with essential basic REDCap features!

Iowa has the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of cancer in the nation. What are cancer providers and experts doing to turn the tides? Join us for an interactive Mini Medical School Program to find out. This evening program in Davenport will help you understand cancer trends in the state; explore how collaborations between cancer researchers, doctors, and hospital systems can advance care and provide options for patients; and learn how patients can get involved. Free to attend; registration required.

Sahebgowda Patil, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Yang Lab, will present a seminar titled “Role of Lysosomal Enzyme GILT on Maintaining Bone Marrow Adipose Metabolic Homeostasis in Obesity.” Zewei Zhang, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Rutkowski Lab, will present a seminar titled “Loss of Hepatocyte Identity Diminishes ER Stress.”

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts...

Nearly everyone works with data in spreadsheets or tables. This workshop will provide you with hands-on experience in using a free tool, called OpenRefine, to check data in spreadsheets, and fix some common issues, from typos to splitting columns. OpenRefine is easy to use, will save you a lot of time, and it keeps track of the changes you’ve made so you can reuse them or roll them back. This workshop can be tailored for specific groups and disciplines. Follow-up sessions and individual...

Valuable e-consent familiarization.