Events for the week of December 13th
2020 M1/PA1 Medical Gross Anatomy Final Exam
Monday, December 14, 2020, 8:00am to 2:20pm
Computerized Exam Teams 1 and 2: 8:00-10:00 am - Beisner Aud BSB or 2189 MERF Lab Exam Team 1: 11:00 am-12:35 pm - 1-230 BSB Lab Exam Team 2: 12:45-2:20 pm - 1-230 BSB
Neuroscience and Pharmacology Virtual Faculty Recruit
Monday, December 14, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Regulation of Metabolism" Presented by Clair Crewe, PhD Assistant Instructor Touchstone Diabetes Center University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD
Monday, December 14, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Investigator, Section on Integrative Physiology & Metabolism, Joslin Diabetes Center Presentation: TBD
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD and Deniz Atasoy, PhD
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am
"Elucidating the role of serotonin in social motivation and withdrawal in alcohol dependence" Presented by Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Pharmacology "Regulation of Hunger and Stress by Ascending Adrenergic Pathways" Presented by Deniz Atasoy, PhD Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Pharmacology
TriNetX Analytics Training
Tuesday, December 15, 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.
UIRF Inventor Office Hours
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Connect with UIRF if you have questions about intellectual property (IP) and commercialization....
Pain Research Program Seminar - Michael Burton, PhD
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am
"Using single cell paradigms to reveal neuroimmune interactions in pain states" Presented by Michael D. Burton, PhD Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Neuroimmunology and Behavior Lab Department of Neuroscience University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, TX
REDCap Training
Wednesday, December 16, 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
Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar - December 16, 2020 The speakers will be Weam Shahin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar (C. Yeaman Lab) and Danielle Talbott, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program (T. Tootle Lab). Dr. Shahin’s seminar title is “Lef-1 Promotes Ionocyte Differentiation from Submucosal Gland Stem Cells” and Danielle’s seminar title is “Prostaglandins regulate nuclear actin to mediate nucleolar functions and cellular dynamics”.
Chat From the Old Cap: Dr. Edwin Stone (89R, 90F, 92F) MD, PhD
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Edwin Stone, MD, PhD is the Director of the Institute for Vision Research at the University of Iowa (www.ivr.uiowa.edu). He is well known for his work in defining the genetic basis of blinding eye diseases: ranging from two of the most common causes of blindness, macular degeneration and glaucoma, to much rarer conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome....
UI Latinx Council Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Due to Covid-19, all of our meetings this fall will be virtual, and you will need to sign in with the SSO option when entering the zoom sessions....
Structural Biology Interest Group
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am
The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom. The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington. To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research. Title TBD Presenters: S. Saif Hasan, PhD, University of Maryland and Dr. Amsa Rehman, Postdoc, Hasan Lab
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
CPC: Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Tragic and Uncommon Presentation of a Rare but Deadly Disease by Douglas Laux, MD, Alexandra Isaacson, MD & Hildur Jonsdottir, MD
2020 M1/PA1 Mechanisms of Health and Disease I (MOHD I) Exam 4
Friday, December 18, 2020, 8:00am to 10:00am
Computerized Exam: Beisner Aud BSB or 1117 MERF
M2/PA2 MOHD Keystone Exam
Friday, December 18, 2020, 10:30am to 1:20pm
Neuroscience and Pharmacology Virtual Faculty Recruit
Friday, December 18, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"The Dorsal Raphe Nucleus as a novel loci for energy homeostasis regulation" Presented by Marc Schneeberger Pané, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory of Molecular Genetics The Rockefeller University