December Events

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Longitudinal immunological profiling reveals determinants of COVID-19 disease severity Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD Professor Molecular Biology and Biochemistry School of Biological Sciences University of California - Irvine

UIRF Inventor Office Hours

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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

REDCap Training

Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 11:00am to 12:30pm

REDCap basic hands-on training This training is a basic overview of REDCap. We will go through the process of creating a REDCap project starting with instrument design, assigning users access to the project, repeating instruments, enabling surveys, project testing, and ending with production mode. After this training, you will have a baseline competency in REDCap.

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar The speakers will be Angelo Antiguas, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (Dunnwald Lab) and Chandler Jensen-Cody, Molecular Medicine Graduate Program (Engelhardt Lab). Angelo’s seminar is entitled “Exploring the role of IRF6 in regulating Cell-ECM adhesions” and Chandler’s seminar is entitled “The requirement for Lef-1 in proper cell cycle progression in airway basal cells”.

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, December 3, 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. Title TBD Presenter: Matthew Schellenberg, PhD, Mayo Clinic

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, December 3, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Pulmonary Histoplasmosis: an internist dilemma" by Rolando Sanchez, MD

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Jae Kyoon Kim and Satya Tadinada

Thursday, December 3, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Complement dysregulation in the striatum of a mouse model for autism spectrum disorder" Presented by Jae Kyoon Kim, PhD Ted Abel Lab "Understanding the effects of PDE4A isoforms on LTP and memory" Presented by Satya Tadinada, PhD Ted Abel Lab

M2/PA2 CAPS III Exam

Friday, December 4, 2020, 8:00am to 9:50am

INI Virtual Seminar: Flora Vaccarino, MD

Friday, December 4, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Title TBD Flora Vaccarino, MD Harris Professor in the Child Study Center Professor of Neuroscience Yale University Please contact iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu for Zoom link

2020 M1/PA1 Mechanisms of Health and Disease I (MOHD I) Exam 3

Friday, December 4, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:50pm

Computerized Exam: Beisner Aud BSB or 1117 MERF

2020 M1/PA1 Medicine and Society I (MAS I) Flexible Final Exam - 1st Day of 5 Days

Monday, December 7, 2020, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Computerized Exam: 1.5-hour exam available 8:00 am December 7 through 5:00 pm December 11. Students may select exam time based on room availability (posted to ICON). Hardin Library Information Commons East or West or L169 MERF (OSAC Computer Lab).

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: Alessandro Bartolomucci, PhD

Monday, December 7, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Alessandro Bartolomucci, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology University of Minnesota

CCOM Spotlight on Current & Future Research

Monday, December 7, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

These quarterly short-talk seminars, hosted by Dr. Brooks Jackson, Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Carver College of Medicine, will feature a small number of presentations by CCOM investigators invited by Dr. Jackson to share research ideas, discoveries and a discussion of their current work and future plans for realizing their research aims. ...

2020 M1/PA1 Medicine and Society I (MAS I) Flexible Final Exam - 2nd Day of 5 Days

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Computerized Exam: 1.5-hour exam available 8:00 am December 7 through 5:00 pm December 11. Students may select exam time based on room availability (posted to ICON). Hardin Library Information Commons East or West or L169 MERF (OSAC Computer Lab).

REDCap Training

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

REDCap Basic hands-off This training is a basic overview of REDCap that is hands-off/lecture. We will go through the process of creating a REDCap project starting with instrument design, assigning users access to the project, repeating instruments, enabling surveys, project testing, and ending with production mode. You will follow along in with the instructor visually. After this training you will have a baseline competency in REDCap.

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Seminar - Thomas S. Kilduff, PhD

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Hypocretin/Orexin, Narcolepsy and the Melanin-concentrating Hormone System" Presented by Thomas S. Kilduff, PhD Center Director and SRI Fellow Center for Neuroscience Biosciences Division SRI International Menlo Park, CA

Learning Community Meetings

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 12:00pm to 12:50pm

TriNetX Training

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

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.

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Carol Carter, PhD

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Tsg101 Is Everywhere: Targeting Its Ubiquity* For Antiviral Drug Design *Pun Intended Carol Carter, PhD Professor Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University

UIRF Inventor Office Hours

Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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

SHPEP Info Session (Summer Health Professions Education Program)

Tuesday, December 8, 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....

2020 M1/PA1 Medicine and Society I (MAS I) Flexible Final Exam - 3rd Day of 5 Days

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Computerized Exam: 1.5-hour exam available 8:00 am December 7 through 5:00 pm December 11. Students may select exam time based on room availability (posted to ICON). Hardin Library Information Commons East or West or L169 MERF (OSAC Computer Lab).

REDCap Training

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

REDCap data quality and reports training...

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar The speakers will be Anurag Kakkerla Balaraju, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (F. Lin Lab) and Cade McDonald, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (E. Taylor Lab). Anurag’s seminar is entitled “Glypican 4 regulates planar cell polarity of endoderm cells by controlling Cadherin-2 localization” and Cade’s seminar is entitled “Metabolic Modulation of Parkinson’s Disease”.

2020 M1/PA1 Medicine and Society I (MAS I) Flexible Final Exam - 4th Day of 5 Days

Thursday, December 10, 2020, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Computerized Exam: 1.5-hour exam available 8:00 am December 7 through 5:00 pm December 11. Students may select exam time based on room availability (posted to ICON). Hardin Library Information Commons East or West or L169 MERF (OSAC Computer Lab).

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, December 10, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

State of the Department by E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Workshop - Guorui Deng and Cancan Lyu

Thursday, December 10, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Elucidating the role of hypothalamic adenylyl cyclase 3 signaling in metabolic homeostasis" Presented by Guorui (Gary) Deng, PhD Huxing Cui Lab "Targeting Gi/o-GPCR signaling in HER2+ breast cancer" Presented by Cancan Lyu, PhD Songhai Chen Lab

M2/PA2 MAS III Exam

Friday, December 11, 2020, 8:00am to 9:50am

2020 M1/PA1 Medicine and Society I (MAS I) Flexible Final exam - 5th Day of 5 Days

Friday, December 11, 2020, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Flexible Computerized Exam: 1.5-hour exam available 8:00 am December 7 through 5:00 pm December 11. Students may select exam time based on room availability (posted to ICON). Hardin Library Information Commons East or West or L169 MERF (OSAC Computer Lab).

INI Virtual Seminar: Alexis Stranahan, PhD

Friday, December 11, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Adipose tissue inflammation and hippocampal synaptic plasticity: a long-distance relationship” Alexis Stranahan, PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine Augusta University Register to receive Zoom link: https://uiowa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d_KliMbjS6ef4rr4im6m6w

2020 M1/PA1 Medical Gross Anatomy Final Exam

Monday, December 14, 2020, 8:00am to 2:20pm

Computerized Exam Teams 1 and 2: 8:00-10:00 am - Beisner Aud BSB or 2189 MERF Lab Exam Team 1: 11:00 am-12:35 pm - 1-230 BSB Lab Exam Team 2: 12:45-2:20 pm - 1-230 BSB

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Virtual Faculty Recruit

Monday, December 14, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Regulation of Metabolism" Presented by Clair Crewe, PhD Assistant Instructor Touchstone Diabetes Center University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD

Monday, December 14, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Investigator, Section on Integrative Physiology & Metabolism, Joslin Diabetes Center Presentation: TBD

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD and Deniz Atasoy, PhD

Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Elucidating the role of serotonin in social motivation and withdrawal in alcohol dependence" Presented by Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Pharmacology "Regulation of Hunger and Stress by Ascending Adrenergic Pathways" Presented by Deniz Atasoy, PhD Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Pharmacology

TriNetX Analytics Training

Tuesday, December 15, 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.

UIRF Inventor Office Hours

Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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

Pain Research Program Seminar - Michael Burton, PhD

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

"Using single cell paradigms to reveal neuroimmune interactions in pain states" Presented by Michael D. Burton, PhD Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Neuroimmunology and Behavior Lab Department of Neuroscience University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, TX

REDCap Training

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11:00am to 1:00pm

Data handling Data Handling covers the basic ‘must know’ items for transforming your data using Excel and Sublime. Basic understanding of Excel is recommended prior to taking this course. Excel Topics Covered Bringing Data into Excel Making it easier to view & understand your data Categorizing raw data Creating a basic calculation Vlookup Totals Tables Pivot tables Sublime Topics Covered Finding data Editing multiple rows of data at once Cleaning Data

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar - December 16, 2020 The speakers will be Weam Shahin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar (C. Yeaman Lab) and Danielle Talbott, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (T. Tootle Lab). Dr. Shahin’s seminar title is “Lef-1 Promotes Ionocyte Differentiation from Submucosal Gland Stem Cells” and Danielle’s seminar title is “Prostaglandins regulate nuclear actin to mediate nucleolar functions and cellular dynamics”.

Chat From the Old Cap: Dr. Edwin Stone (89R, 90F, 92F) MD, PhD

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Edwin Stone, MD, PhD is the Director of the Institute for Vision Research at the University of Iowa (www.ivr.uiowa.edu). He is well known for his work in defining the genetic basis of blinding eye diseases: ranging from two of the most common causes of blindness, macular degeneration and glaucoma, to much rarer conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome....

UI Latinx Council Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, December 16, 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....

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, December 17, 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. Title TBD Presenters: S. Saif Hasan, PhD, University of Maryland and Dr. Amsa Rehman, Postdoc, Hasan Lab

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