Events for the week of April 19th
Ph.D. Zoom Seminar Presentation: Ph.D. candidate Tony Martini on April 20th at 9am
Monday, April 20, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am
Microbiology Ph.D. ZOOM Seminar Presentation - Contact Cynthia Hernandez for the Zoom meeting ID number at cynthia-hernandez@uiowa.edu Please join Ph.D. candidate Tony Martini for his Ph.D. seminar presentation - “Virulence Determinants of Streptococcus sanguinis Involved in Pathogenesis of Infective Endocarditis"
Iowa Medical Student Research Club
Monday, April 20, 2020, 12:00pm to 12:50pm
Neuroscience and Pharmacology Faculty Candidate Seminar - Dr. Xing Zeng
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am
"Molecular Basis of Sympathetic Innervation of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue" Presented by Xing Zeng, PhD Scientist I Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Biochemistry Workshop: Price Lab
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
CANCELED: How to Complete HawkIRB Modifications, Continuing Reviews, Reportable Events Forms (REFs), and Project Closure Forms
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:30pm
This event is canceled.
TriNetX Analytics Training
Tuesday, April 21, 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. Noah Butler, PhD
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom meeting link and ID number ‘Hz’ peasy Plasmodium squeezy: how hemozoin constrains anti-malarial humoral immunity Noah Butler, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
Hardin Open Workshops - Twitter for Academics (Online Through Zoom)
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its use in the Health Sciences. 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.
Pain Research Program Seminar - Igor Spigelman, PhD
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am
Igor Spigelman, PhD Professor, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology Chair, Section of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry University of California – Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
REDCap Training
Wednesday, April 22, 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
WOCN: Faculty, Staff & Grad Student Lunch Meet-Up
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us during your lunch hour for an opportunity to connect with other Womxn of Colour on campus. Bring your lunch, refreshments provided!
Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar Erica Gansemer, Graduate Student, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (Tootle Lab), will be presenting “NADPH and glutathione redox link TCA cycle activity to endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis” and Jake Schillo., Genetics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (Engelhardt Lab), will be presenting “Characterization of Ionocyte Function in the Ferret Airway”.
Pivot Training Session
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Join us for a training session featuring best practices for utilizing Pivot features. Open to all faculty and staff, you will have the opportunity to work hands-on within the system to learn the functionality of crafting and saving funding opportunities, finding potential collaborators, creating newsletters, and much more....
3rd Annual Computational Psychiatry Symposium 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 8:00am to 6:00pm
If we can get the same auditorium as last year (for as much of the day as possible), that would be great. We also had the morning session in the Children's hospital/pediatrics conference center (2nd floor, not sure if it's JCP or JPP). That was also a good space if we can't get the morning in CPH. We will also want the CPH 5th floor space for the dinner (from ~6pm-9pm).
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Robert Gennis
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am
Dr. Robert Gennis Professor Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology University of Illinois
Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Online Through Zoom)
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm
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....
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
COVID-19 at UIHC: Our experience thus far by Bradley Manning, MD
Students: Mental Health Virtual Panel Discussions: Coping in the Time of COVID-19
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Coping in the time of COVID-19 is an uncharted, life-changing task for everyone, and it can make caring for our own mental health and the mental health of those around us a challenge. Join our virtual Panel Discussion on Thursday, April 23 to learn about resources and strategies for coping with COVID-19. Thursday, April 23 Students | Noon - 1:15PM CST Zoom: UIOWA.ZOOM.US/J/98325033953
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Connor Laule & Tam Nguyen
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
This workshop is virtual, join us for a Zoom presentation! "PVH Projecting NTS Catecholamine Neurons in Hypoglycemic Hunger" Presented by Connor Laule Rotating Graduate Student "Examining the role of FGF21 in mTOR1 signaling in hypothalamic cells" Presented by Tam Nguyen Rotating Graduate Student
Internal Medicine Fellows' Interdisciplinary Core Conference
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Medical Genetics by Colleen Campbell, PhD
M1/PA1 MOHD III Exam 3
Friday, April 24, 2020, 10:00am
Neuroimaging Workgroup
Friday, April 24, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
We present/demo a neuroimaging (mostly human mri) related tool every month. This is also a great opportunity to see who else is doing neuroimaging work at uiowa and promote community!
Hacky Hour
Friday, April 24, 2020, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Hacky Hour is an informal gathering of people to share knowledge and ask questions about their data and how to code analyses for their data.