April Events

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Li Wang, PhD

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Development of the Human Neocortex: from Progenitors to Circuits" Presented by Li Wang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco

Career Development Series: My Career Path to a Government Research Lab

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:30am

Rajula Elango, who earned her PhD in Integrated Biology in 2017 under the mentorship of Anna Malkova, will be giving a Career Development Series talk entitled, “My Career Path to a Government Research Lab,” on Tuesday, April 16 at 11:30 a.m. via Zoom (email biology@uiowa.edu for the Zoom link). The Career Development Series talks are hosted by the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Workshop: Adrian Elcock, DPhil

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Presented by Adrian Elcock, PhD, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

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. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required for Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Hwan Kim, PhD

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Tick transmission and pathogenesis of Rickettsia amblyommatis Hwan Kim, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stony Brook University 

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:...

Python for Data Analysis: Machine Learning Using Scikit-Learn

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm

1. Overview...

ACB Seminar Series - Israel Wipf & Erik Quiroz

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Israel Wipf, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in the Tina Tootle Lab will present a seminar titled "The Role of Lipid Droplets and ATGL During In Vivo Collective Cell Migration." Erik Quiroz, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in the Amy Ryan Lab will present a seminar titled "RBL2 Represses Multicilin Transcriptional Activity in Human Airway Epithelial Cells."

MSF/Doctors Without Borders - Surgical Missions and Tales from the Field

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

​MEAL AND MEETING SPACE PROVIDED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF HEALTH PARITY...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Workshop: Dr. Michael Schnieders

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10:30am to 11:20am

Presentation by Dr. Michael Schnieders, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Pravda Quinones-Libernik and Ritu Arya

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Investigating post transcriptional regulation through nonsense-mediated mRNA decay during recovery sleep" Presented by Pravda Quinones-Libernik Graduate student in Dr. Ted Abel's lab "The role of lipid droplets in beta cell lipid metabolism contributing to pancreatic islet health" Presented by Ritu Arya Graduate student in Dr. Yumi Imai's lab

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Amanda Dudek, PhD

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

"A Tale of Two Models: Developing an HIV cure and investigating immune control using gene editing" Amanda Dudek, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine 

Clinical Conference: Neuro-Ophthalmology

Friday, April 19, 2024, 8:00am to 12:00pm

Guest Speaker: Reid Longmuir, MD...

Skills for Educators Workshop: Educational Scholarship

Friday, April 19, 2024, 8:30am to 11:30am

This session will explore how to design and conduct research related to health professions education questions and innovations. Objectives: Define educational scholarship Formulate educational research questions Make decisions in relation to study design/conceptual framework and implementation of educational research projects List potential venues of dissemination/publication of medical education scholarship

Python for Data Analysis: Machine Learning Using Scikit-Learn

Friday, April 19, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm

1. Overview...

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series

Friday, April 19, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

The Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series highlights trainees and junior faculty from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in neuroscience. We meet virtually once each month—featuring one Big Ten institution—for presentations and discussion/networking. Seminars are scheduled for afternoons on the third Friday of each month. Zoom link is provided by the host institution. If not added in the event listing, please email iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu the week of the seminar to...

Biology Seminar: "Adaptive responses to osmotic stress in Drosophila melanogaster"

Friday, April 19, 2024, 4:00pm

The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker this Friday, April 19 is Aylin Rodan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Rodan’s seminar will be held at 4 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101) in Biology Building East (BBE). Alan Kay is the faculty host. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar in the BBE lobby.

BMindful Holy Days: Passover (Judaism)

Monday, April 22, 2024, 7:55pm to Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 8:04pm

BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events....

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Seminar - Elva Denise Diaz, PhD

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am

"How to change your mind: Molecular mechanisms of excitatory synapse development and plasticity" Presented by Elva Denise Diaz, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology UC Davis School of Medicine

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Workshop

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Christine Suetterlin, PhD

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

"Arms race between Chlamydia and its host cell" Christine Suetterlin, PhD University of California, Irvine

Student Impact Grant Presentations

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4:00pm

Hear from the eight 2023–24 Student Impact Grant recipients and learn how private support enhanced their Iowa experience. Student Impact Grants are made possible by generous gifts from alums and friends who provide unrestricted support to the university....

Pain Interest Group Workshop - Yaroslav Andrianov

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 9:00am to 10:00am

Presented by Yaroslav Andrianov Graduate student in Dr. Yuriy Usachev's lab

ACB Seminar Series - Dakota Jones

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Dr. Dakota Jones, a Post-Doctoral Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania will present a seminar titled "Mesenchymal Cell Plasticity and Signaling in Lung Regeneration."

TriNetX Basic Training

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 9:00am to 10:00am

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 can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research....

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Workshop: Sophie Granger, Maria Spies Laboratory

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:30am to 11:20am

Presentation by Sophie Granger, Research Assistant in Dr. Maria Spies' Laboratory

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in diabetes patients - unraveling a silent foe" by Adeyinka Taiwo, MBBS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Andrew Kain and Isaias Herring

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"α1-AR Activity Prolongs NASPM Block of GluD1R" Presented by Andrew Kain Graduate student in Dr. Stephanie Gantz's lab "Elucidating cerebellar abnormalities in 16p11.2 mice" Presented by Isaias Herring Graduate student in the labs of Dr. Krystal Parker and Dr. Aislinn Williams

Spring Microbiology Undergraduate Poster Session

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 3:30pm to 5:30pm

If you are a Microbiology major who has been doing research (in any lab), come share that research at the Microbiology Undergraduate Poster Session on Thursday, April 25 in the EMRB atrium from 3:30-5:30 p.m. There are good reasons to participate:...

Health Sciences Research Day

Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:00pm to 5:00pm

The Carver College of Medicine Health Sciences Research Day will be April 26, 2024, featuring Keynote speaker James McClain, PhD, MPH speaking at noon.   James McClain, PhD, MPH Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) All of Us Research Program Center for Precision Health Research https://allofus.nih.gov/about/ The event will include a poster session and mini symposia, and abstracts from all disciplines are welcome. This event is open to the public.

Biology Seminar: "Coordinating cellular asymmetry with cell division in the Drosophila germline"

Friday, April 26, 2024, 4:00pm

The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker this Friday, April 26 is Elizabeth Ables, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at East Carolina University. Dr. Ables' seminar will be held at 4 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101) in Biology Building East (BBE). Tina Tootle is the faculty host. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar in the BBE lobby.

20th Annual Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 12:30pm to 4:00pm

This symposium celebrates the research accomplishments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology undergraduates and provides graduating seniors an opportunity to present their research results.