Upcoming Events

Des Moines Mini Medical School - Beyond the Bump: Latest in Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Medicine promotional image

Des Moines Mini Medical School - Beyond the Bump: Latest in Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Medicine

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 5:15pm to 7:30pm
Iowa Hospital Association

Exploring how maternal, fetal, and neonatal medicine affects everyone’s health

Maternal and fetal medicine isn’t just for babies. Pregnancy and birth outcomes affect everyone’s health. Join us for an educational event to explore the latest from Iowa’s research leaders and how advancements in maternity care and neonatal medicine support critical health needs in our state.

This evening program will help you understand pre-eclampsia, fetal movement monitoring, and how the neonatal immune system...

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College of Pharmacy Blood Drive

Thursday, April 2, 2026 11:30am to 3:30pm
College of Pharmacy Building
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday April 2nd, 2026, at the College of Pharmacy Building in their main lobby.

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 4/2/2026

Thursday, April 2, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

"CPC: A1AD induced liver cirrhosis" by Jacob Heath, MD, Sameh Abdalla, MD (Pathology), and Alan Gunderson, MD

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Alexander Dumas and Victor Kilonzo

Thursday, April 2, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Regulation and Impact of Cardiac Fatty Acid Uptake in Response to n-3 Fatty Acids

Alexander Dumas
PhD Student in Dr. Brandon Davies' Lab

Prefrontal dopamine transients and oscillatory activity in D1 receptor-expressing neurons during working memory

Victor Kilonzo
PhD/ MSTP Student in Dr. Nandakumar Narayanan's Lab

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Quick Pitch Challenge

Thursday, April 2, 2026 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Gilmore Hall
The OUR Quick Pitch Challenge (QPC) is a communication competition that challenges undergraduate students to present their research or creative work to a general audience in three minutes. Participants from all majors and areas of study are invited to showcase their work on campus. Clear communication is key in professional settings, and you can also compete for prizes!
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Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - M. Furkan Burak, MD

Monday, April 6, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building

Guest speaker, Furkan Burak, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School will be giving a talk title, "The fat talks and the body listens! The effects of palmitoleic acid on metabolic syndrome".

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Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Ashby Martin

Monday, April 6, 2026 11:30pm
Medical Laboratories

Ashby Martin is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Dan Tranel's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating and...

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom) promotional image

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators
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BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Spring 2026, these will occur in 2117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Jan. 20: CANCELED

Jan. 27: Lori Wallrath, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Feb. 3...