October Events

TriNetX Analytics Training

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

TriNetX analytics training TriNetX Analytics is a new functionality within the TriNetX toolset. You will be able to explore and compare cohorts, review cohort characteristics and compare outcomes of interest. We will demonstrate how to use these tools and give examples on best practices for when to use these different measures. After this training you will have a basic understanding of the Analytics toolset and how it can be applied to research questions for your studies.

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Michael Johnson, PhD

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Copper II Michael Johnson, PhD Faculty, Department of Immunobiology University of Arizona  

UIRF Inventor Office Hours

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Connect with UIRF if you have questions about intellectual property (IP) and commercialization....

REDCap Training

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

MyCap training MyCap makes it easy for researchers to capture participant/patient reported outcomes using mobile devices. We will demonstrate a how a participant interacts with MyCap, how the REDCap Team constructs instruments and tasks and how a research study team can enroll participants, message participants, view and interact with participant data. After this training you will have a an understanding of how to use REDCap MyCap.

Introduction to Linux (Using Argon)

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

"Intro to Linux (using Argon)" is a two-hour general purpose introductory session intended for anyone who plans to use the Linux environment for research. The following lessons are featured: ...

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar Speaker, Priya Veeraraghavan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar (S. Young Lab) will be presenting "Role of presynaptic calcium channels in regulating synaptic vesicle release kinetics"

UI Latinx Council Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Due to Covid-19, all of our meetings this fall will be virtual, and you will need to sign in with the SSO option when entering the zoom sessions....

SNPhA Immunization Clinic at College of Medicine

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

College of Pharmacy student members of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) will host flu shot clinics at the College of Medicine. Clinics are from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm on Oct. 14, 21, 26, and 28. Locations vary.

Virtual Biochemistry Seminar:

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Basic (Online Version) ZOOM

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

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 NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Progress in Internal Medicine

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Uday Singh and Jingwei Jiang

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"The Role of Lateral Hypothalamic Leptin Circuitry in Autonomic Control of Cardiovascular Function" Presented by Uday Singh, PhD Huxing Cui Lab "Address Role of Hypothalamic Steroidogenic Fctor 1 (SF1) Neurons in Regulation of metabolic homeostasis and Autonomic Function? Presented by Jingwei (Jane) Jiang, MD, PhD Kamal Rahmouni Lab

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Uday Singh and Jingwei Jiang

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"The Role of Lateral Hypothalamic Leptin Circuitry in Autonomic Control of Cardiovascular Function" Presented by Uday Singh, PhD Huxing Cui Lab "Addressing the Role of Hypothalamic Steroidogenic Fctor 1 (SF1) Neurons in Regulation of metabolic homeostasis and Autonomic Function" Presented by Jingwei (Jane) Jiang, MD, PhD Kamal Rahmouni Lab

WorldCanvass: Pursuing Racial Justice

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

The United States is undoubtedly undergoing a period of reckoning over race, not only a reexamination of our historical past, but a present-day challenge to what many perceive as institutional racism, injustice in policing and judicial systems, inequality of opportunity based on race and ethnicity, and a lack of diversity in our public institutions which serves to perpetuate inequities and minimize the claims of those who feel underrepresented. We invite you to join us on Thursday, October 22...

SHPEP Info Session (Summer Health Professions Education Program)

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

The University of Iowa Health Sciences Colleges are pleased to offer a FREE enriching six-week experience with SHPEP. The Health Sciences Colleges include the Carver College of Medicine, College of Dentistry, College of Pharmacy, and College of Public Health. We strongly believe in the value of exposing students from underrepresented backgrounds to the possibility of pursuing health fields and supporting their goals in accomplishing that dream to help improve the health of society at large....

M2/PA2 MOHD IV Exam

Friday, October 23, 2020, 8:00am to 9:50am

2020 M1/PA1 Medical Gross Anatomy Exam 2

Friday, October 23, 2020, 8:30am to 4:00pm

Lab Exam Group B:  8:30-10:05 am - 1-230 BSB Lab Exam Group A:  10:15-11:50 am - 1-230 BSB Computerized Exam:  2:00-4:00 pm - Beisner Aud BSB or 1117 MERF

GRFP Submission Virtual Celebration

Friday, October 23, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Congratulations on how far you have come with your NSF GRFP application! Register & join us on Friday, October 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM CT via Zoom to celebrate your success with this journey. 

Clinical Conference: Retina

Saturday, October 24, 2020, 9:00am to 11:20am

Conference will be held online using the Zoom Meeting Platform. Meeting information and link will be provided after registering to attend....

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: Brian Finck, PhD

Monday, October 26, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Brian Finck, PhD  Associate Professor of Medicine  Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine Presentation: Targeting mitochondrial metabolism to treat obesity-related diseases

SNPhA Immunization Clinic at College of Medicine

Monday, October 26, 2020, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

College of Pharmacy student members of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) will host flu shot clinics at the College of Medicine. Clinics are from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm on Oct. 14, 21, 26, and 28. Locations vary.

Bean Community Grand Rounds

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Virtual Biochemistry Workshop: Chris Ball

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Deciphering control of host RNA polymerase II by a multifunctional viral transcription factor Chris Ball Biochemistry Graduate Student Mentor: Dr. David Price Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

Virtual Biochemistry Workshop:

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

  Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

Hardin Open Workshops - Avoiding (or fixing) Problems with Spreadsheet Data

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Nearly everyone works with data in spreadsheets or tables. This workshop will provide useful tips for organizing your data in spreadsheets. Then we'll spend time using free tools like OpenRefine that can save you a lot of time when reviewing and cleaning up tabular data. This workshop can be tailored for specific groups and disciplines. Follow-up sessions and individual consultations are also available....

UIRF Inventor Office Hours

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Connect with UIRF if you have questions about intellectual property (IP) and commercialization....

Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed ZOOM

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 10:00am to 11:00am

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.

Introduction to High Performance Computing (Using Argon)

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

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Anatomy & Cell Biology Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar Speaker, Vitaly Ievlev, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (Engelhardt Lab) will be presenting "Basal keratins help to steer airway stem cells to a certain fate" | Speaker, Noah Armstrong, Neuroscience Graduate Program (Frank Lab) will be presenting "The role of calcineurin signaling in regulating presynaptic homeostatic plasticity"

SNPhA Immunization Clinic at College of Medicine

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

College of Pharmacy student members of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) will host flu shot clinics at the College of Medicine. Clinics are from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm on Oct. 14, 21, 26, and 28. Locations vary.

TriNetX Training

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

TriNetX basic training 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 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.

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  "Structural basis of nucleosome-dependent cGAS inhibition" by Joshua Boyer, Research Associate, Dr. Qi Zhang lab University of North Carollina, Chapel Hill  

Virtual Biochemistry Seminar:

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

Hardin Open Workshops - Keeping Current ZOOM

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Want to know as soon as an exciting new article is published? Tired of skimming the websites or paper copies of multiple journals to see what is in the new issue? This hands-on session will show you how to create a single destination for information from your favorite journals, databases, websites and blogs using RSS feeds and auto-alerts. 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.

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The High Road and Its Tolls: Public Health Lessons Learned from Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Oklahoma by Gerard Clancy, MD

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Jacob Rysted and Kristin Claflin

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"MCU Knockout on Synaptic Transmission, Neural Excitability and Seizure Susceptibility" Presented by Jacob Rysted, PhD Yuriy Usachev Lab "Central Regulation of Energy Expenditure by FGF21" Presented by Kristin Claflin, PhD Matt Potthoff Lab

INI Virtual Seminar: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD

Friday, October 30, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Neural circuit mechanisms and technology for pain and social touch." Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD Mitchell J. and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor Dept of Biology University of Pennsylvania Please contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu for Zoom link

2020 M1/PA1 Mechanisms of Health and Disease I (MOHD I) Exam 1

Friday, October 30, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:50pm

Computerized Exam:  Beisner Aud BSB or 2189 MERF