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Events for the week of March 28th

  • Week of Sunday, March 28

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism: Jiandie Lin, PhD

Monday, March 29, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Jiandie Lin, PhD Bradley M. Patten Collegiate Professor of Life Sciences Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology University of Michigan Medical School Life Sciences Institute Title: Endocrine crosstalk and metabolic tissue microenvironment in health and disease 

CCOM Spotlight on Current & Future Research

Monday, March 29, 2021, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

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.  ...

3/30 Virtual Biochemistry Workshop: TBA

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

  Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

Hardin Open Workshops - Data: Reviewing and Cleaning Up Spreadsheet Data with OpenRefine ZOOM

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Nearly everyone works with data in spreadsheets or tables. This workshop will provide you with hands-on experience in using a free tool, called OpenRefine, to check data in spreadsheets, and fix some common issues, from typos to splitting columns. OpenRefine is easy to use, will save you a lot of time, and it keeps track of the changes you’ve made so you can reuse them or roll them back....

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Priya Issuree, PhD

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom meeting link information.  Dissecting the role of regulatory elements in epigenetic landscaping during infection Priya Issuree, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Inflammation Program Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa  

CANCELLED - Pain Research Program Seminar - Daniel Harper, PhD

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 9:00am to 10:00am

Presented by Daniel E. Harper, PhD Assistant Professor Departments of Anesthesiology and Physiology Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA

Humor in the Classroom (CIRTL Back to Class Series)

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 12:00pm

Join us on Wednesday, 3/31 at 12pm for Humor in the Classroom (CIRTL Back to Class Series), facilitated by Mitch Kelly, Clinical Professor,  Counseling Psychology Program, in the University of Iowa College of Education...

Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar Guest Speaker, Kimberly Tremblay, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Vet and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, presenting "From endoderm to hepatoblast: uncovering heterogeneity during murine liver development". 

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Rohit Jangra, PhD

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom meeting link information.  Discovery of host determinants of virus susceptibility by using BSL2 systems Rohit Jangra, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Virtual Biochemistry Seminar: TBA

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 10:30am to 11:30am

  Contact abby-t-johnson@uiowa.edu for ZOOM link

No Fear Networking: Leveraging LinkedIn for the Job Search

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 12:00pm to 12:30pm

The Grad Success Center’s CareerCore Professional Development Series will focus on helping graduate students hone their professional skills from improving their cover letters and resumes to preparing for interviews. These lunchtime webinars will run from 12-12:30 pm Central Time on Thursdays in April. Topics include:...

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Cancer Diagnostic Clinic: A New Initiative and Clinical Vignettes by Taher Abu Hejleh, MD and Mark Karwal, MD

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Cancer Diagnostic Clinic: A New Initiative and Clinical Vignettes by Mark Karwal, MD and Taher Abu Hejleh, MD

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Graduate Student Workshop - Alex Glebov-McCloud and Connor Laule

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"The Role of Drp1-Dependent Mitochondrial Fission in Peripheral Diabetic Neuropathy" Presented by Alex Glebov-McCloud Graduate Student in Dr. Stefan Strack's lab "Role of mTORC1 and Opioid Signaling in Arcuate Nucleus Neurons" Presented by Connor Laule Graduate Student in Dr. Kamal Rahmouni's lab

Get Answers to Tax Questions w/ Xuefen Zhen, UI International Tax Expert

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Are you an international scholar with tax questions? Are you not an international scholar, but still have questions? Come get answers from Xuefen Zhen, the UI international tax expert.  Please contact Kayly Lembke at kayly-lembke@uiowa.edu for zoom link. 

Hardin Open Workshops - Systematic Reviews, Part 2: Literature Searching ZOOM

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies, and saving and organizing references....

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Jessica Tucker, PhD

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom meeting link information.  Gammaherpesviruses Alter the Host tRNA Expression Landscape  Jessica Tucker, PhD ACS Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California, Berkeley