Events for the week of April 16th
GradFest 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Students planning to graduate in the spring 2025 semester are encouraged to pick up their cap and gown at GradFest 2025 in the IMU’s Main Lounge. Enjoy free snacks and fun activities, snag exclusive freebies and discounts, learn about alumni resources, and catch up on your graduation checklist! Diploma frames, graduation announcements, class rings, and other items will be available on-site.
GradFest 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Students planning to graduate in the spring 2025 semester are encouraged to pick up their cap and gown at GradFest 2025 in the IMU’s Main Lounge. Enjoy free snacks and fun activities, snag exclusive freebies and discounts, learn about alumni resources, and catch up on your graduation checklist. Diploma frames, graduation announcements, class rings, and other items will be available on-site!
ACB Seminar Series - Jie Li & Brendan Creemer
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 9:30am to 10:30am
Jie Li, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Tootle Lab, will present a seminar titled “The roles of PGD2 and its Synthase GstS1 in Drosophila Eggshell Development."Brendan Creemer, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Ryan Lab, will present a seminar titled “Determining the Role of Ecm-cell Interactions in Regulating Airway Basal Cell Stemness."
REDCap MyCap Training
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:...
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (In-Person & Zoom)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options....
Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (In Person and Zoom)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required to participate on Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.
Embracing Self-Compassion: The Power of Being Kinder to Yourself with Kari Vogelgesang, PhD
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 7:00am to 8:00am
In this session, attendees will explore the transformative power of self-compassion and practical strategies for integrating it into daily life. Drawing on current research and real-life examples, this presentation will challenge the harmful perfectionism that often accompanies our work and personal lives, offering a refreshing perspective on how being kinder to ourselves can enhance our well-being and productivity. Participants will leave with actionable tools to practice self-compassion and...
REDCap Data Handling
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:...
Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Kyleakin Helm-Kwasny
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 10:30am
Kyleakin Helm-Kwasny is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Science (Molecular Medicine) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been in Dr. Al Klingelhutz's laboratory.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support via Zoom. https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/98565731348?pwd=K8ijmlZva7eg7PK7XdcKNDb1VaZEH4.1Meeting ID: 985 6573 1348Passcode: 381766
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Sara Stahley
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 10:30am to 11:20am
This event is open to the public. Cadherin regulation of planar cell polarity in the mammalian epidermis Sara Stahley, PhD Assistant Professor of Dermatology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Pennsylvania State University Cancer Institute Stahley Lab | https://sites.psu.edu/stahleylab/
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 4/17/2025
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"CPC: Proteus mirabilis bacteremia and urosepsis " by Natalie Ross, MD, Allen Choi, MD (Pathology), and Ilonka Molano, MD, MME
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Olivia Klein and Emma Luhmann
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Presented by Olivia Klein Graduate Student in the labs of Drs. Mark Schultz and Marco Hefti Presented by Emma Luhmann Graduate student in Dr. Kevin Campbell's lab
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Investiture
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 3:00pm
Please join us as we celebrate a faculty appointment in the UI Carver College of Medicine:...
Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Kai Vorhies
Friday, April 18, 2025, 10:30am
Kai Vorhies is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Science (Molecular Medicine) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Matt Potthoff's laboratory.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support via Zoom.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://uiowa.zoom.us/j/92085651469Meeting ID: 920 8565 1469
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Maya Evans
Friday, April 18, 2025, 2:30pm
Maya Evans is PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. She is a part of Dr. Hanna Stevens's laboratory. If you cannot attend in person, please consider attending via zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91541797824
Microbiology PhD Thesis Seminar - Alix McCullough, PhD Candidate
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 10:30am to 11:30am
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Workshop: Dr. Miles Pufall
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Miles Pufall, PhD Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Allison Didychuk, PhD
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
ACB Seminar Series - Sudha Shenoy
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 9:30am to 10:30am
Dr. Sudha Shenoy, a Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology from the Duke University School of Medicine will present a seminar titled "Multifaceted Roles of USP20 in the Cardiovascular System."