Events for the week of December 6th
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