November Events
Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Ryan Zander, PhD
Monday, November 1, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. T Follicular Helper cell-derived IL-21 supports Effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection Ryan Zander, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Biochemistry Workshop
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Hardin Open Workshops - Finding the Right Journal for your Manuscript
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
There are an overwhelming number of health sciences journals, but how do you know which ones are best to target for submitting your work? This session will provide a demonstration of tools to use to create a list of appropriate journals to consider. Resources to help you evaluate the quality of health sciences journals will be reviewed. Time for guided practice using the resources will also be provided.
Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Mary Weber, PhD
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. Mechanisms of molecular mimicry: Insights on Chlamydia host cellular invasion and reprogramming Mary Weber, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
"That's not how we learned it before!" Guest speaker, Ellen Robertson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center Darren Hoffman, Ph.D. is Dr. Robertson's faculty host
Hardin Open Workshops - Scoping Reviews: Getting Started
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Scoping reviews generally aim to examine research activity, often to identify research gaps in the existing literature. These reviews, which are becoming more popular, may benefit from contributions of a medical librarian. This session will provide detail about scoping reviews, including examples of topics/questions best served by this type of review. Standards and criteria to consider with planning a scoping review will be shared. Additional topics will include determining where to search,...
Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
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.
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Cardio-Oncology: An Overview by Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Priyanka Sandal, PhD and Paul Williams, PhD
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
"Characterization of neurodevelopmental mutations in PPP2R2B" Presented by Priyanka Sandal, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Stefan Strack's lab "Defining the Central Autonomic Neurocircuitry Related to the Control of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Functions" Presented by Paul Williams, PhD Postdocdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Kamal Rahmouni's lab
CCOM Pop Up IT Support Desk
Friday, November 5, 2021, 9:00am to 11:00am
The IT Pop Up Support Desk will resume starting July 2. We will setup each Friday from 9-11 on a specific floor in BSB (full schedule below), please feel free to stop by with questions or simply have a cup of coffee. If the below times don’t work for you, the Technology Assistance Center (TAC) is available M-F 9:00 – 4:00, and can assist with installation and troubleshooting of UI Health Care applications (Remote Access, email, etc) on phones, tablets, and laptops. ...
SHPEP Iowa 2022 Info Session
Monday, November 8, 2021, 6:00pm to 6:45pm
A free six-week Summer Health Professions Education Program with housing, meals, stipends, travel assistance, guidance and so much more? Say less! First and second year undergraduates interested in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, or public health are encouraged to apply. This session will explain eligibility requirements, the application process, and a sample SHPEP schedule. Visit shpep.org or contact monique-galpin@uiowa.edu for more info!
REDCap Training
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
REDCap overview training Not sure what REDCap is? Want to find out if REDCap is suitable for your research project? The REDCap Overview session will cover the basics of REDCap’s functionality and capability. No previous experience is needed. We cover the basic capabilities and the latest software enhancements. NOTE: This is not a hands-on course. After this training you will have a basic understanding of what REDCap’s capability.
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Seminar - Robert Messing, PhD
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am
"Targeted and Genomic Approaches in Drug Discovery for Alcohol Use Disorder" Presented by Robert Messing, PhD Chair, Department of Neuroscience Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology University of Texas - Austin Austin, TX
Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 11:00am to 12:00pm
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.
Learning Community Meetings
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 12:00pm to 12:50pm
Biochemistry Workshop: Priya Issure
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
TriNetX Training
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
TriNetX 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 Seminar: Dr. Kevin Brown, PhD
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. Control of Toxoplasma Motility by Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling Kevin Brown, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Jian Zheng, PhD
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. The role of PLA2G2D-PGD2 in coronavirus infection and host immune response Jian Zheng, PhD Assistant Research Scientist University of Iowa
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Regulation of the Melanocyte Lineage by the AP2 Transcription Factor Family" Nicole Recka, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics (Robert Cornell Lab) "Lef-1 Promotes Ionocyte Differentiation of Myoepithelial Cells of the Airway Submucosal Glands" Weam Shahin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar (Charles Yeaman Lab)
Black in Business Series Presents -- Black Creative Professionals Panel
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
The Black in Business Series presents an exclusive panel discussion with visionaries, innovators and leaders that are business professionals in their own creative ways. This panel of creative professionals and entrepreneurs aims to bring individuals together who are using their innovative ideas and creative minds to impact the work that they do. Every industry you go into is a business. Our panelists will answer questions about how they've navigated being Black in the industries of healthcare...
Structural Biology Interest Group with Amy Whitaker, PhD
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 9:00am to 10:00am
This meeting is canceled and will be rescheduled to the Spring term. ...
REDCap Training
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
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.
Hardin Open Workshops: Data Management and Sharing Plans for Grant Proposals
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
NIH, NSF, and many other research funders require data management plans as part of the funding proposal. A good plan may help you provide a more competitive proposal. We’ll cover the foundational elements of these plans, campus resources and policies you can include in the plan, and look at some examples. Bring your plan if you have started working on one.
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Wendy Gordon
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am
Dr. Wendy Gordon: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Interesting ID cases by Poorani Sekar, MD
REDCap Training
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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.
CCOM Pop Up IT Support Desk
Friday, November 12, 2021, 9:00am to 11:00am
The IT Pop Up Support Desk will resume starting July 2. We will setup each Friday from 9-11 on a specific floor in BSB (full schedule below), please feel free to stop by with questions or simply have a cup of coffee. If the below times don’t work for you, the Technology Assistance Center (TAC) is available M-F 9:00 – 4:00, and can assist with installation and troubleshooting of UI Health Care applications (Remote Access, email, etc) on phones, tablets, and laptops. ...
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2021 Finalists Q&A and Winner Announcement
Friday, November 12, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to communicate their research in three minutes or less in non-specialist language. Contestants represent a diverse array of disciplines and areas of study and reflect the passion and thirst for discovery common among all of Iowa's graduate students. Learn more about the 3MT Competition! ...
Global Health Case Competition: Presentation of Team Interventions
Friday, November 12, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Join us for a livestream of this year's case competition team interventions. Due to COVID precautions, all presentations will be pre-recorded and available for streaming on YouTube at any time following this screening. For more information about the case competition, visit cph.uiowa.edu/case
Global Health Case Competition: Live Judging Sessions
Monday, November 15, 2021, 11:30am to 1:30pm
Tune in to hear our case competition teams defend their creative and innovative interventions to a panel of expert judges from around the world. Each team will have 20 minutes to respond to questions and challenges from our panel of 5 judges and answer questions from the audience. The names and biographies of this year's judges will be revealed on Friday, November 12th. ...
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Amelia Douglass, PhD
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am
"The neural basis for fasting-induced activation of the HPA axis" Presented by Amelia Douglass, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard University
Biochemistry Workshop
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
TriNetX Training
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 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 Seminar: Dr. Hillel Haim, MD, PhD
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. Listening to the “noise” in virus systems to tailor therapeutics to patients and vaccines to populations Hillel Haim, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
REDCap Training
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am
Logic and survey distribution training...
Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Sharmila Nair, PhD
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) with questions. Leveraging ZIKV and the immune system for treatment against Glioblastoma Sharmila Nair, PhD Instructor Department of Internal Medicine Washington University School of Medicine
Interactive Data Visualization with Plotly in R
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:20pm
This workshop introduces the basic functionality of plotly in R, a library that makes interactive data visualization. The workshop is taught using RStudio and will cover how to use RStudio on the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS)....
Global Health Case Competition: Presentation of Awards
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Join us for the presentation of awards to the top 3 teams in the Fall 2021 IIPHRP Global Health Case Competition. This awards ceremony is a celebration of months of work for our student competitors and a continued acknowledgement of the importance of a maintaining a global view in our approach to the health of each individual and the community....
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
"Regulation of oogenesis by peripheral nuclear receptor signaling" Lesley Weaver, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University Dr. Tina Tootle, is Dr. Weaver's faculty host
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am
Hands-on Bioinformatics Workshop
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Visualization of RNA Sequencing Data with PCA clustering and Heatmaps in R/R Studio...
Interactive Data Visualization with Plotly in R
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:20pm
This workshop introduces the basic functionality of plotly in R, a library that makes interactive data visualization. The workshop is taught using RStudio and will cover how to use RStudio on the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS)....
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Updates in Osteoporosis by Amal Shibli-Rahhal, MD, MSc, MME
UIPDA Postdoc Parent Resource Session
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
UIPDA is hosting a resource panel next Thursday, November 18th from 1:30-2:30 PM on Zoom to discuss challenges and resources available to you as both a researcher and a parent. The first half of the session will be a moderated session with our campus experts and several former postdoc parents from UI. There will be time for your questions towards the end. We will be recording this session and adding information to this postdoc parent resource guide currently in development. You will also be...
REDCap Training
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Data handling training 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
Microbiology PhD Defense Seminar - Graduate Candidate - Phuong Tran
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
MICROBIOLOGY PhD THESIS SEMINAR PhD candidate – Phuong Tran “Investigations into Staphylococcus aureus β-Toxin Pathogenesis” Thursday, November 18th| 2:00 PM Beisner Auditorium (Aud I), Bowen Science Building For Zoom Details contact: cynthia-hernandez@uiowa.edu
Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture - Lin Tian, PhD
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Dr. Lin Tian will present a lecture on November 18 at 4:00pm. Dr. Tian is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. ...
CCOM Pop Up IT Support Desk
Friday, November 19, 2021, 9:00am to 11:00am
The IT Pop Up Support Desk will resume starting July 2. We will setup each Friday from 9-11 on a specific floor in BSB (full schedule below), please feel free to stop by with questions or simply have a cup of coffee. If the below times don’t work for you, the Technology Assistance Center (TAC) is available M-F 9:00 – 4:00, and can assist with installation and troubleshooting of UI Health Care applications (Remote Access, email, etc) on phones, tablets, and laptops. ...
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