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Events for the week of March 3rd

  • Week of Sunday, March 3

Frontiers in Pediatrics Research Seminar: Dr. Justin Zacharaiah

Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Life Course Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention” Justin Zachariah, MD, MPH, FAHA, FAAP Assistant Professor in Pediatric Cardiology Texas Children’s Hospital Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX

Pulmonary Clinical Conference

Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Potpourri by Brian Gehlbach, MD

Nephrology Hypertension Conference

Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Current Case Presentation" by Prerna Rastogi, MD, PhD

Cardiology Grand Rounds

Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Many Faces of the Wesk Heart: Takotsubo Syndrome” by Kan Liu, MD, PhD

IIPHRP Annual Global Public Health Case Competition - Case Announcement

Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Discover this year's case topic for the IIPHRP Global Public Health Case Competition.  Teams and mentors will be introduced to this year's global case study and will have 1 month to develop a creative, innovative, and interdisciplinary intervention to present to a panel of expert judges and practitioners.  The case competition is open to all UI students. A part of Research Week 2019, this event is cosponsored by IIPHRP, the Global Public Health Initiative, and the CPH Research Office.

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: S. Raza Shaikh, PhD

Monday, March 4, 2019, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

S. Raza Shaikh, PhD Associate Professor Associate Chair for Research Department of Nutrition Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presentation: A tale of two lipid families in metabolic disorders: Pro-resolving metabolites and the mitochondrial phospholipidome are targets for therapeutic intervention

Endocrine Fellows' Curriculum Lecture Series

Monday, March 4, 2019, 2:30pm to 4:00pm

"PCOS and contraceptive therapies" by Ginny Ryan

Medical Surgical Pulmonary Conference/Lung Cancer Tumor Board

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 7:00am to 8:00am

Issues in Transplantation

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 8:00am to 9:00am

"Vaccinations in Transplant" by Dilek Ince, MD and Laura Halder, Pharm D

Hem-Onc Fellows Core Lecture

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 8:00am to 9:00am

Usha Perepu, MBBS “Sickle Cell Anemia”

Hardin Open Workshops - Getting Started with Hardin Library Resources

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 10:00am to 11:00am

This course will cover how to search for Hardin Library resources including books and journals and how to request materials not owned by the libraries. Participants will also be introduced to our available databases, subject guides, and services. Optional tour of library spaces after session. This course can be tailored to meet the needs of a particular group.

Pharmacology Seminar - Garret D. Stuber, Ph.D.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Dissecting the Neural Circuits that Mediate Motivated Behavior" Presented by Garret D. Stuber, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Psychiatry & Cell Biology and Physiology Director, Neuroscience Curriculum University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

Pulmonary Conference

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Pulmonary Fascinomas with an Infectious Attitude” by Doug Hornick, MD

Biochemistry Workshop: Dr. Bonnie Hall

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 12:30pm

"Developing a PUI/R1 Research Collaboration: Evolution of DNA-Binding Specificy" Dr. Bonnie Hall Assistant Professor Grandview University

Nephrology Fellow Pathology Conference

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Presenter: Prerna Rastogi, MD, PhD

Cardiology Nuclear Conference

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Pharmacology PhD Dissertation Defense - Rachel Minerath

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

"Mediator Kinase Submodule-dependent Regulation of Cardiac Transcription" Presented by Rachel Minerath Graduate Student in Dr. Chad Grueter's Lab

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Noah Butler

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

"Regulatory circuits that constrain durable immunity against malaria" Presented by Noah Butler, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Iowa Hosted by Patrick Schlievert, PhD

Carver College of Medicine Wall of Scholarship

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

The program will include remarks by President Bruce Harreld, Provost Sue Curry, and VP for Medical Affairs and Dean Brooks Jackson.  The wall will highlight papers from our faculty that are distinguished by being cited over 1,000 times by at least two of three academic citation indices.  Such a distinction testifies to the importance and impact of these scientific works. The faculty to be honored at this inaugural event are:...

Neuroscience Seminar: Kelle Nett & Jenna Kelly

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

"Dendritic spine plasticity of corticostriatal projection neurons following extinction training" by Kelle Nett (Psychological and Brain Sciences/LaLumiere Lab) "Reward conflict during forced-choice and free-choice situations" by Jenna Kelly (Psychological and Brain Sciences/Hazeltine Lab)

Undergraduate Mentorship Program

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

North Star Financial Seminars

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 6:30pm to 7:20pm

Doc Dash Meeting

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 6:30pm to 7:20pm

Echo Conference

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 7:30am to 8:30am

Hem-Onc Fellows Meeting

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 8:00am to 9:00am

Oncology Special Seminar

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 11:00am to 12:00pm

“Strategies to reverse melanoma-induced T cell dysfunction” by Hassane M. Zarour, MD, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

NIH Director Visit: Dr. Walter Koroshetz, NINDS

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"NIH and the Taxpayers Investment in Neuroscience" Dr. Walter Koroshetz, MD Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke   Schedule contact: Sonya Housholder

Pulmonary Core Conference

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Evaluation of Pulmonary Impairment” by Pat Hartley, MD

Cardiology Core Curriculum Conference

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Ventricular Tachycardia”- Dr. Bailin

Immunology Seminar - Kevin Legge, PhD

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Nanovaccine-Mediated Protection Against Influenza Virus” Kevin Legge, PhD Professor Department of Pathology University of Iowa

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 1:00pm

Anatomy & Cell Biology Wednesday Seminar Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Speakers Eliot Zhu, MSTP Interdisciplinary Graduate Student, Dupuy Lab, presenting "Actin remodeling drives resistance to MAPK-inhibition in melanoma by invoking a drug-tolerant transcriptional program” & Dan Su, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student, Amendt Lab, presenting "Identification of new miR-24-3p targets in mouse odontogenic cells."

Immunology Grand Rounds

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

TBD (Research Talk) by Scott Lieberman

Rheumatology Conference

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Clinical Stumpers by Dr. Sangha

Allergy Conference

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Genetic Talk, Lori Doerner (video)

CADRE Works in Progress

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 3:15pm to 4:00pm

Presenter: Aaron Scherer

Interventional Cardiology Core Conference

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 7:00am to 8:00am

Blood Club

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 8:00am to 9:00am

Clinical Lecture Series

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Clinical Lecture Series educates clinical research professionals on the basics of clinical research. The lectures will help provide a more effective, efficient, and cohesive clinical research environment at the University of Iowa.  Topic Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research: What you need to know Speakers Martha Hedberg, MPA COIR/HSO Operations Manager

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Miller Lecture:  Inflammatory Bowel Disease:  What the Internist Needs to Know by Ezra Burstein, MD, PhD

Pharmacology Graduate Student Workshop - Mengya Wang

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"The Role of Cerebellar CGRP in Migraine" Presented by Mengya Wang Graduate Student in Dr. Andy Russo's lab

Pulmonary Faculty Meeting

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Infectious Diseases Special Grand Rounds

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

“Sisyphus Reprised” by William Nauseef, MD and Jeffery Meier, MD

GI Grand Rounds

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

BRUCE L. MILLER & M. JOYCE MILLER MEMORIAL AWARD & VISITING PROFESSORSHIP LECTURE: "Understanding the genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease" by Ezra Burstein, MD, PHD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture - Susan Amara, PhD

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Dr. Susan Amara, PhD, will visit campus on March 7, 2019 to present a lecture on "Dynamic regulation of signaling pathways in dopamine neurons: the intracellular actions of amphetamines" at 4:00pm in the Prem Sahai Auditorium (1110A MERF). Dr. Amara is a Principal Investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology and Scientific Director of the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Mental Health at the National Institutes of Health. ...

EP Case Conference

Friday, March 8, 2019, 7:00am to 8:00am

Endocrine Grand Rounds

Friday, March 8, 2019, 7:30am to 8:15am

Presenter: Dr. Carvour

M1/PA1 MOHD II Exam 5

Friday, March 8, 2019, 8:00am to 10:00am

Hem-Onc Fellows Core Lecture

Friday, March 8, 2019, 8:00am to 9:00am

Grerk Sutamtewagul, MD “Platelet Disorders”

Clinical Conference: Retina

Friday, March 8, 2019, 8:45am to 2:30pm

Featured Speaker: Tim Stout, MD, PhD, MBA...

Infectious Diseases Faculty and Fellows Conference

Friday, March 8, 2019, 9:10am to 10:00am

“Controversies in treating bone and joint infections” by Poorani Sekar, MD