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Events for the week of March 24th

  • Week of Sunday, March 24

BMindful Holy Days: Holi Festival of Spring and Color (Hinduism)

Monday, March 25, 2024

BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events....

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 10:00am to 11:00am

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as:...

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Seminar Series - David M. Holtzman, PhD

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am

"The Role of APOE and the immune response in Amyloid-induced Tauopathy and Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration" Presented by David M. Holtzman, PhD Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor Scientific Director, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Dept. of Neurology Washington University School of Medicine

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Workshop

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Global Visiting Scholar Presentation: Policy Engagement & Development for Women’s Reproductive Health in India

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 1:30pm to 2:20pm

Sivakami is a Professor at the Center for Health and Social Sciences, School of Health Systems Studies (SHSS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She was also the Chairperson of the Centre for Health and Social Sciences, one of the four centers in SHSS, between June 2015 to June 2021. Sivakami's broad research area includes Demography, Gender and Health. Her specific research areas of interest include Sexual and Reproductive Health including Menarche and Menstrual Hygiene;...

Facing the Inferno: Visiting Artist Kari Greer

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

The Pentacrest Museums host visiting artist Kari Greer for a special event to discuss themes of her exhibition Facing the Inferno: The Wildfire Photography of Kari Greer, now on display at the Old Capitol Museum. Greer will discuss her art, her career, firsthand knowledge of fire from the 1990s to today, and how photographic documentation impacts our collective understanding. Following her keynote, Greer will be joined by UI faculty from Carver College of Medicine and the colleges of...

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's 24-Hour Giving Day

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Every year, thousands of Hawkeyes come together to make an important—and meaningful—impact for Iowa. All gifts made in March will count toward the One Day for Iowa total.  Be a Hawkeye that gives back on One Day for Iowa! Support students, faculty, research, health care, and more. Give now: https://1dayforiowa.org/3P8KBNf

Pain Interest Group Workshop - Adriana Della Pietra, PhD and Robert Wiederien

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 9:00am to 10:00am

"Pro-nociceptive role of Piezo1 channels and the anti-nociceptive effects of endocannabinoids in the trigeminal system implicated in migraine pain" Presented by Adriana Della Pietra, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Andy Russo's lab "Validity and Reliability of the Pain Schema Inventory - Short Form" Presented by Robert Wiederien Graduate student in Dr. Laura Frey Law's lab

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 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:...

ACB Seminar Series - Trevor Jones & Wendy Xu

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Trevor Jones, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in the Andy Frank Lab will present a seminar titled "A role for O-GlcNAcylation in Synaptic Homeostasis?" Wendy Xu, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in the Seth Tomchik Lab will present a seminar titled "Neuronal Circuit Remodeling through Structural Synapse Connectivity in a Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Drosophila model."

TriNetX Basic Training

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 9:00am to 10:00am

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 can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research....

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 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:...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Alexey Soshnev, PhD

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 10:30am to 11:20am

"Connected Landscapes: Chromatin Mechanisms of Cancer and Pluripotency" Presented by Alexey Soshnev, PhD University of Texas at San Antonio Faculty Host: Dr. Pamela Geyer

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

DEO Candidate Seminar: "Academic Medicine: Leading with Purpose and Optimism" by Upinder Singh, MD, Professor & Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine; Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Medicine; Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology; Stanford University School of Medicine

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Angela Smith and Trevor Butler

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"Exploring the role of spinal dopamine in the transition to chronic pain" Presented by Angela Smith Graduate student in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's lab "Leaving the Lamina Terminalis: Investigating Thirst Circuitry Downstream of the Median Preoptic Nucleus" Presented by Trevor Butler Graduate student in Dr. Jon Resch's lab

Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting: "Updates on Antibiotic Drug Allergy," w/Amy Dowden and Deanna McDanel

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Iowa Chapter will be hosting a virtual meeting on Thursday, March 28 at 12:30 pm CT over Zoom....

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: Sarah Dremel, PhD

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

CircRNA biogenesis and function during herpesvirus infection Sarah Dremel, PhD Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Health

BMindful Holy Days: Good Friday (Christianity)

Friday, March 29, 2024

BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events....

Clinical Conference: Glaucoma (Mansour F. Armaly Lecture)

Friday, March 29, 2024, 8:00am to 12:00pm

Guest Speaker: David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH ...

Biology Seminar: "History Repeats Itself: Genetic changes underlying convergent traits revealed through comparative genomics"

Friday, March 29, 2024, 4:00pm

The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, March 29, is Nathan Clark, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark’s seminar will be held at 4:00pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101) in Biology Building East (BBE). John Logsdon is the faculty host.

BMindful Holy Days: Easter (Christianity)

Sunday, March 31, 2024

BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events....