October Events

Step 1 Tutoring Group

Monday, October 22, 2018, 7:00pm to 8:50pm

Step 1 Tutor Group

Monday, October 22, 2018, 7:00pm to 8:50pm

Pharmacology Seminar - Deniz Atasoy, Ph.D.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Multi-Nodal Modulation of Hypothalamic Hunger Circuits by an Ascending Catecholamine Pathway" Presented by Deniz Atasoy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA

Hardin Open Workshops - Twitter

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its use in the Health Sciences.

Hardin Open Workshops - Twitter

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its use in the Health Sciences.

Molecular Medicine Seminar - Dr. Pete Lollar

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 11:30am to 12:30pm

"The Development of Recombinant Porcine Factor VIII, A Case History in Translational Medicine" Pete Lollar, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics Emory University

NIH Public Access: Managing Citations for Progress Report Compliance

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

NIH Public Access: Managing Citations for Progress Report Compliance...

Boulware Grand Rounds

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Biochemistry Workshop: Ryan Sheldon and Kelli Sylvers

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Hepatic mitrochondrial citrate carrier disruption reroutes glucose from lipogenesis into glutamine" Ryan Sheldon Post Doc Taylor Lab Department of Biochemistry University of Iowa "Lipase regulation by ANGPTL3" Kelli Sylvers Grad Student Davies Lab Department of Biochemistry  University of Iowa

Pathology Research Day Lecture: Daniel Remick, MD

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury Augmenting Clearance of Bacteria...

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Robert Cramer, Jr.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

"Oxygen Stress Responses and Invasive Fungal Infection Disease Progression Mechanisms" Presented by Robert Cramer, Jr., PhD Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College Hosted by Damian Krysan, MD, PhD

Foundations/MOHD I Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 4:00pm to 5:50pm

Foundations/MOHD I Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 4:00pm to 6:50pm

Neuroscience Student Seminar

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

"Hearing what you want to hear: The effects of top-down information on acoustic encoding" by McCall Sarrett (McMurray Lab) "Cortical and cerebellar neurodegeneration in the absence of the nuclear protein, Akirin2" by Stacey Peek (Weiner Lab)

Anatomy Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 5:00pm to 6:50pm

Anatomy Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 5:00pm to 6:50pm

Anatomy Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 5:30pm to 6:50pm

Step 1 Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6:00pm to 7:50pm

Foundations/MOHD I Tutor Group

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6:00pm to 7:50pm

Doc Dash Meeting

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6:30pm to 7:20pm

Flu Shot Clinic for Medical/PA Students

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 11:00am to 1:30pm

SNPhA Flu Shot Clinic for College of Medicine

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 11:00am

College of Pharmacy student members of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) will host a flu shot clinic at the College of Medicine. Clinic is from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm on Oct. 24 and 29.

Pediatric Interest Group Meeting

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Medical Genetics Interest Group Meeting

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Emergency Medicine Interest Group

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Workshops

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Contributions of side chain and backbone atoms to the voltage sensing mechanism of potassium channels presented by: Daniel Infield, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar Laboratory of Dr. Christopher Ahern Molecular Physiology and Biophysics And Regulation of Candida glabrata transcription Factor Pdr1 presented by: Lucia Simonicova, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholoar Laboratory of Dr. Scott Moye-Rowley Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Immunology Seminar - David Rawlings, MD

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Mechanistic Interrogation of Genetic Changes that Impact B Germinal Center Responses" David Rawlings, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Washington School of Medicine​

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 1:00pm

Anatomy & Cell Biology Wednesday Seminar, Speaker Darren Hoffmann, Ph.D.,  Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Iowa  "3D Anatomy resources: What’s out there and how might these resources be used?”

Hubbard Scholars

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 6:30pm to 7:30pm

What is the Hubbard Scholars? As a group of men affiliated with the University of Iowa as students, staff, and faculty, we seek to follow the legacy of Phillip G. Hubbard, the first tenured African American professor at the University of Iowa. In case you are unfamiliar with who we are and what we do, our goal is to offer programming, events, and services that meet three important objectives: 1) To foster a more inclusive community of learning and support for Black men, 2) To provide...

Step 1 Tutor Group

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7:00pm to 7:50pm

Step 1 Tutor Group

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7:00pm to 8:50pm

Foundations Tutor Group

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7:00pm to 8:50pm

The Examined Life Conference: The Writing, Humanities, and Arts of Medicine

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 8:00am to Saturday, October 27, 2018, 2:00pm

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host our 12th annual three-day conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts. We feature a refreshing and relaxed atmosphere to take in skill-building workshops and inspiring presentations from the people working to forge that integration. You’ll leave with a new appreciation not only of your art, but of your work (and even your struggles). 

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Melanie Samuel

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Genetic modulators of neuronal resilience" Dr. Melanie Samuels Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience Huffington Center on Aging Baylor College of Medicine Host: Dr. Sheila Baker

Science Thursdays

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 11:00am to 1:00pm

Science Thursdays is a weekly event series featuring science activities, food trucks and live music. It is a community enhancement effort that celebrates scientific discovery and promotes cross-departmental networking. These events are open to the public and are held in an accessible space, 11am-1pm, in the courtyard between the Medical Education Research Facility (MERF), Eckstein Medical Research Building (EMRB), Bowen Science Building (BSB), and the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building ...

Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 11:00am to 12:00pm

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on and there will be time for questions at the end.

Almuerzo (‘Brown Bag’) y conversación en español

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Almuerzo (‘Brown Bag’) y conversación en español ¿A usted le gusta hablar en su primer idioma? ¿Desea practicar su español (de principiante a nivel avanzado) en una atmósfera informal y agradable? ¡Entonces le invitamos cordialmente a que traiga su almuerzo para Almuerzo y Conversación en español a la Biblioteca Hardin! ...

PIG/Leopold Society Lunch Meeting

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Sarcoma by Mohammed Milhem, MBBS

Neuroscience Thesis Seminar - Thomas James

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Discrete IP3 signaling requirements underlie acute and chronic forms of homeostatic synaptic plasticity" Thomas James Anatomy and Cell Biology Frank Lab

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Dharmendra Bhargava, Ph.D.

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Role of a Scaffolding Protein, WDR26, in Breast Cancer Progression" Presented by Dharmendra Bhargava, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Songhai Chen's lab

Gerrymandering, Voter Registration, and Access to the Ballot—An Obermann Conversation

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

How is voting restricted in our country in lawful ways? For this Obermann Conversation, political scientist Tracy Osborn, grassroots organizer Sharon Lake and legal advisor Andrew Bribriesco will discuss issues ranging from gerrymandering, Iowa's voter registration law, voter identification, and lack of voting rights for felons. ...

Lecture Committee Presents Ben Sasse

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 5:00pm to 7:30pm

Join the Lecture Committee for a special lecture featuring Senator Ben Sasse....

Dr. Nurse: Knowledge, Politics, and the Making of the Academic Nurse

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota, to speak on "Dr. Nurse: Knowledge, Politics, and the Making of the Academic Nurse."

A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story Film Screening

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

In observance of National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month, the CDA is hosting a free screening of the 90-minute documentary "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story," along with a Q&A with filmmaker Lane Wyrick....

Molecular Psychiatry Seminar - Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD

Friday, October 26, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Wired to be human: Development and evolution of neocortical circuits" Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD Professor of Neuroscience, Comparative Medicine, Genetics & Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine

2018 M1/PA1 Mechanisms of Health and Disease I (MOHD I) Exam 1

Friday, October 26, 2018, 1:00pm to 2:50pm

Computerized Exam. Beisner Aud BSB or 2189 MERF.

Single-Cell Expression Profiling Mini-Symposium

Friday, October 26, 2018, 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Please visit our webpage to learn more about this symposium.

Relax:Talk:Grow (RTG) Building Community

Friday, October 26, 2018, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Relax:Talk:Grow (RTG) is a networking/policy planning event hosted by the University of Iowa African American Council and the Public Policy Center. RTG combines fellowship, local artists, and policy discussions addressing the experiences of Iowa City's African American community both on and off campus. This month's program on Community Building runs from 5:30-7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 26 at the Englert Theater. It will be held in the 2nd floor Douglas & Linda Paul Gallery Space. An...