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Events for the week of September 18th

  • Week of Sunday, September 18

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes, and Metabolism Seminar: Bing Li, PhD

Monday, September 19, 2022, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Bing Li, PhD  Professor of Pathology Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa  Title: Obesity/cancer risk: evidence, mechanisms and our solutions

REDCap Surveys

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am

This training will cover REDCap surveys and logic. From enabling surveys to automatic survey invitations, we'll demonstrate the full survey functionality in REDCap. In addition, we'll cover hiding/showing fields with branching logic, calculating the difference between 2 dates with a calculated field, and other logical functions available in REDCap. After this training, you will have the ability to create and send surveys in a variety of ways as well as creating more complex projects using...

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Xuyu Qian, PhD

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 10:30am to 11:30am

"Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disorders Using Human iPSC-derived Brain Organoids" Presented by Xuyu Qian, PhD Research Fellow in Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics Boston Children's Hospital Harvard University

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Research Workshop: Dr. Dan Weeks

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Studies on the Parkinson's Protein alpha-Synuclein Using Xenopus laevis" by Dan Weeks, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Hardin Open Workshops: ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID (Zoom)

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

What is ORCID? Why would you want one? This session will discuss ORCID, how researchers can benefit from having one, and how ORCID connects with other information systems. This will also be a hands-on workshop where everyone will have the chance to create their own ORCID and learn the most efficient ways to populate their profile with their publications....

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Balaji Manicassamy, PhD

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom link.  Genetic Approaches to Study Influenza Virus-Host Interactions Balaji Manicassamy, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa

REDCap Advanced

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am

This course assumes participants have a basic understanding of building instruments and surveys in REDCap. This training will cover advanced features of REDCap instruments and fields. We'll demonstrate how action tags can perform an action on a field, how data can be piped from one field to another, how using biomedical ontologies can standardize your data, and how to use validated instruments from the shared library. This will also cover the longitudinal module and using smart variables to...

Hardin Open Workshops: Data Sharing and Publication (Zoom)

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am

You’ve received funding for a project, and your research funder expects you to share the data. Or perhaps you are working on an article, and the journal requires you to share your data. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the process of preparing data for sharing or publication, important decisions to make, and ways to enable your data to have a broader impact....

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm

"Engineering Dynamic 3D Models of Pulmonary Fibrosis"      Chelsea Magin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus      Amy Ryan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, is Dr. Magin's faculty host

Improv Theatre for Communication Skills Series

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Do you want to feel more comfortable with public speaking, teaching, and presentations? Join other graduate students and postdocs for improvisation drop-in sessions where we will use improv theatre games to help you improve your confidence in public speaking, answering questions, and communicating your research to broad audiences. Sessions will be led by Lisa Kelly, Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Cedar Rapids and the UI CIRTL Coordinator, and Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers, UI...

INI Synapse Workshop

Thursday, September 22, 2022

This workshop is free for all UI faculty, staff, students and will feature both UI and invited guest speakers. Agenda will be posted when finalized: https://iniworkshop.conference.uiowa.edu/general-information

Academic Job Support Office Hours - Cover Letters

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The process of pursuing a tenure-track of teaching-track faculty position can be intimidating. ...

A Conversation with NIH: Implementing the New Data Management and Sharing Policy - Part 2

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

NIH is offering a two-part webinar series on the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy, which will go into effect Jan. 25, 2023....

Three Minute Thesis Workshop: Research Imagery

Friday, September 23, 2022, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

This session will help prepare you to design your presentation and pitch your research for the Three Minute Thesis Competition. Learn about tips on how to create your 3MT slide.  Register at bit.ly/3MTWorkshops22 and join us for the workshop on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. via Zoom.

Carver Black and Gold Mile Run

Sunday, September 25, 2022, 8:00am to 10:00am

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host the fifth annual Carver Black and Gold Mile Run from 8 to 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the university’s Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track, 105 1st Ave. in Coralville....