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Events for the week of October 2nd

  • Week of Sunday, October 2

UI Health Care Latinx Heritage Month Lecture - LHS+ Heritage/History of the Latino Medical Student Association Midwest Region

Monday, October 3, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Dr. Jorge A. Girotti and Dr. Emma B. Olivera will highlight LHS+ Heritage/History of the Latino Medical Student Association Midwest Region Register in Advance for this lecture REGISTER HERE 

Hardin Open Workshops: EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 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....

Sahs Symposium

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

STEP: The StrokeNet Endovascular Thrombectomy Platform Colin Derdeyn, MD, FACR Krabbenhoft Professor and Chair of Radiology University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

Anatomy and Cell Biology Chair Candidate Seminar (Candidate B)

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

"Organelle Positioning in the Cell is Regulated by Nuclear Envelope Proteins and Molecular Crowding of the Cytoplasm"      David A. Starr, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Allen Distinguished Investigator, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Research Workshop: Dr. David Price

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:20pm

"Zombie Pre-Initiation Complexes (PICs)" by David Price, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Dr. Vincent Lee, PhD

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom link.  Pseudomonas aeruginosa signaling, RNA degradation and device associated infections  Vincent Lee, PhD Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics University of Maryland

Pain Research Program Seminar - Edgar Romero-Sandoval, MD, PhD

Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 9:00am to 10:00am

"Modulation of pain via immune cell phenotype and the ER stress sensor IRE1a/XBP1s" Presented by Edgar Romero-Sandoval, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston Salem, North Carolina

Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

 “A community ecology approach to graduate student support”      Katherine Kearns, Ph.D., Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Indiana University Bloomington     Dr. Kearns' faculty host is Darren Hoffmann

Improv Theatre for Communication Skills Series

Wednesday, October 5, 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...

Fall Into the Semester with Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)

Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) invites graduate and post-doctoral women and their families to join us in City Park for a fall picnic! Whether you are a current member of GWIS or not, we invite you to hang out and learn about our organization while we paint tiny pumpkins and enjoy the crisp fall weather. Pizza will be provided! ...

Academic Job Support Office Hours - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

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

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Kristin Claflin, PhD and Thomas James, PhD

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Central Regulation of Energy Homeostasis by FGF21" Presented by Kristin Claflin, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Matt Potthoff's Lab "Altered sleep in mice expressing mutant tau in the dorsal raphe" Presented by Thomas James, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Catherine Marcinkiewcz's Lab

Three Minute Thesis Preliminary Competition

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

The University of Iowa’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to nonspecialist audiences....

Hardin Open Workshops: Data Management Essentials (Zoom)

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Whatever the research you are doing, chances are, you’re working with research data. Small changes to your data management practices can make a big difference during research, and when you are ready to share the results. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to securely store and organize your data, keep track of changes to your files, create accompanying documentation, and submit your data for publication. Employing these practices will ensure that everyone, including you, can use and reuse...

Three Minute Thesis Preliminary Competition

Friday, October 7, 2022, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

The University of Iowa’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to nonspecialist audiences....

Quality control during sexual reproduction - lessons from the nematode C. elegans

Friday, October 7, 2022, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

The 2022 Genetics Student Retreat will be held at the UI Art Building West. On Oct. 7 there will be a Public Presentation by our keynote speaker, Dr. Abby Dernburg. Doors will open at 5 p.m., presentation will begin at 6....