Events for the week of December 4th
REDCap Overview
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
Not sure what REDCap is? Want to find out if REDCap is suitable for your research project? The REDCap Overview session will cover the basics of REDCap’s functionality and capability. No previous experience is needed. We cover the basic capabilities and the latest software enhancements. NOTE: This is not a hands-on course. After this training you will have a basic understanding of REDCap’s capability.
Laser Vision Correction Free Webinar
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Workshop: Andrew Kalenkiewicz
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
"Unraveling the Structural and Thermodynamic Basis of Caspase Allostery" by Andrew Kalenkiewicz, Ashley Spies lab
TriNetX Basic Training
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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 Seminar: Dr. Vicente Planelles, PhD
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for the Zoom link. HIV Transcription and viral latency Vicente Planelles, PhD Professor, Division of Microbiology and Immunology Department of Pathology University of Utah School of Medicine
SHPEP Iowa 2023 Virtual Info Session, 12/6
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 6:00pm to 6:45pm
Are you a first-year or second-year undergraduate student interested in pursuing a career in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, or public health?...
Pain Research Program Workshop - Joseph Lesnak
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 9:00am to 10:00am
"The impact of sex and physical activity on the local immune system response to muscle pain" Presented by Joseph Lesnak Graduate Student in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's Lab
REDCap Basic Hands On
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 10:00am to 11:30am
This training is a basic overview of REDCap. 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. After this training, you will have a baseline competency in REDCap.
Anatomy and Cell Biology Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
"All-optical Super-resolution Imaging of Molecules in their Nanoscale Cellular Context" Joerg Bewersdorf, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine Sam Young, Ph.D. is Dr. Bewersdorf's faculty host
Hardin Open Workshops: NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
NIH will begin requiring a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) all NIH funding proposals starting Jan. 23, 2023. This session will help you create a useful and well-written plan that meets the requirements and can be put into practice in your project. We’ll dig into each section of a plan, including: describing the types of data for your proposed project; standards for data and metadata; selecting a repository; addressing preservation and access requirements; and considerations for access...
CS Colloquium - Self-supervised text generation metrics: Teaching computers to judge how good it writes without an English degree
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Speaker Forrest Sheng Bao Abstract The Transformer architecture invented by Google in 2017 has triggered a boom of text generation (natural language generation, NLG), including summarization, simplification, and translation. A consequent problem is how to judge the quality of generated text or a generator (summarizer, translator, etc.). The conventional approach is to measure the lexical or token-level overlap between the generated text and a parallel text prepar...
REDCap Basic Demo
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
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 with the instructor visually. After this training you will have a baseline competency in REDCap.
Hardin Open Workshops: EndNote Desktop (Zoom)
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
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....
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Kanishk Jain, PhD
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10:30am to 11:30am
"Understanding the Nature of Chromatin Engagement by Histone PTM Readers and Writers" Kanishk Jain, PhD American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Guorui (Gary) Deng, PhD & Cancan Lyu, PhD
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
"Dissecting the roles of hypothalamic ciliary adenylyl cyclase 3 in body weight regulation" Presented by Guorui (Gary) Deng, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Huxing Cui's Lab “Active Gai/o mutants accelerate tumor metastasis via the c-Src pathway in transgenic mouse models of breast cancer” Presented by Cancan Lyu, PhD Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Songhai Chen's Lab
Broga
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Iowa who identify as men are invited to Broga (that is, bro-yoga), a free class. This physical practice will stretch and strengthen you. Must bring your UI ID with you. Sponsored by the Men and Masculinities Coalition at the University of Iowa, Office of the Dean of Students.
Hardin Library Finals Week Extended Hours
Friday, December 9, 2022, 7:00am to 9:00pm
Hardin Library has extended hours for finals week, closing at 9pm Friday. The 24-hour study is available to anyone with a current IowaOne Card or UIHC ID. Free coffee, hot chocolate and snacks provided.
CS Colloquium - From molecules to societies: how computer science can help advance biomedicine and human health – a personal perspective
Friday, December 9, 2022, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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