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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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Upcoming UI Carver College of Medicine Events

Dissertation Seminar: Break-induced Replication: Two Roles in Genome Instability
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 9:00am
Kendra Musmaker, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, June 18, at 9:00am CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom (see attached flyer for the Zoom link). Kendra’s mentor is Anna Malkova, former Roy J. Carver Professor of Biology at the University and Iowa and current Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The seminar is open to the public to attend.
REDCap MyCap Training
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:
Creating participants
Creating tasks and schedules
Active tasks and their unique data output
Direct messages and announcements
This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.
Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account.PLEASE NOTE:Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.
REDCap Data Handling
Thursday, June 19, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:
Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()
Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering
Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables
Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables
Transforming unusable data to a...
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 6/19/2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Metabolic Associated Liver Disease" by Marta Tejedor, MD, MSc, PhD

Dissertation Seminar: Break-Induced Replication as a DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathway: Mutagenic Consequences and Mechanistic Insights
Thursday, June 19, 2025 1:00pm
Jerzy Twarowski, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending his dissertation on Thursday, June 19, at 1 p.m. CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom (see attached flyer for the Zoom link). Jerzy’s mentor is Anna Malkova, former Roy J. Carver Professor of Biology at the University and Iowa and current Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The seminar is open to the public to attend.

Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Basic - Online Version (Zoom)
Thursday, June 19, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software that is freely available to all UI affiliates. It allows you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. EndNote Basic is not the same as the desktop software, Endnote.PLEASE NOTEClass will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

2025 Hawk-IDDRC Annual Retreat
Friday, June 20, 2025 9:00am to 4:00pm
Please join us for the 2025 Hawk-IDDRC Annual RetreatFriday, June 20, 20259am – 4pmMERF 2117Keynote Speaker: Melissa Brotman, PhD, Chief of the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit, Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health "Translation, treatment and technology: An integrative approach to pediatric psychopathology"REGISTRATION IS LIVE NOW! VISIT IDDRC.uiowa.edu (REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 13)

Topics in Human Genetics
Monday, June 23, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The course is open to individuals wishing to learn more about current topics in Human Genetics who meet the following criteria; individuals must have completed a course in genetics and are currently in a genetics lab, or have past genetics research experience. Genetics educators are also welcome to attend the course.The objective of the course is to provide persons familiar with genetics a broad overview of gene identification, molecular genetics, complex disease, next generation sequencing...
TriNetX Basic Training
Thursday, June 26, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.
After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.
Register by clicking the virtual event link...