Spring 2021 Events

Please view Upcoming Thesis Defenses here: https://medicine.uiowa.edu/mstp/events/thesis-defenses

Date @ Noon	Event	Speaker / Title
Mon 01/04	Break	Break
Mon 01/11	MSTP Monday	Darren Hoffmann, PhD - "Virtual Scientific Networking using Social Media and other technologies"
Mon 01/18	Holiday	Holiday
Mon 01/25	MSTP Monday	WELLNESS ACTIVITY - Cohort Coffee/Lunch (Virtual or In-Person)
Mon 02/01	Conversations in Research	Martine Dunwald, PharmD, PhD Research Associate Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology Graduate Program Affiliations: Cellular & Developmental Biology, Genetics J. Muse Davis, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases Graduate Program Affiliations: Molecular Medicine
Mon 02/08	MSTP Monday	Business Meeting & Student Check-In & Conversation with Darren Hoffmann, PhD
Mon 02/15	Conversations in Research	IDP Introduction Ryan Boudreau, PhD Associate Professor of Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine Graduate Program Affiliations: Molecular Medicine, Genetics
Wed 02/17 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Virtually	Annual I Heart Science Poster Session	Annual I Heart Science Poster Session Details TBA
Mon 02/22	MSTP Monday	MSTP LEARNING COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
Mon 03/01	Conversations in Research	Creative Writing Workshop - Introduction
Mon 03/08	MSTP Monday	MSTP GRAND ROUNDS: "I CAN’T Believe It’s Not Interleukin-6!" Melissa Gildenberg, M6G (Todd Washington Lab) Morgan Swanson, M5G (Nicholas Mohr & Jim Torner Labs)
Mon 03/15	Spring Break	Break
Thur 03/18	MSTP Seminar	One brain, many genomes: somatic mutation and genomic diversity in the human brain from development to regeneration Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Harvard University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mon 03/22	MSTP Monday	2021 GRADUATING STUDENTS PANEL (Lindsay Agostinelli, Lauren Boland, Melissa Gildenberg, Matt Grunewald, Kelly Hubert, Ryan Kelley, Dan Matasic, Kai Rogers, Dylan Todd, Carly van der Heide, Ameya Walimbe)
Mon 03/29	Conversations in Research	Creative Writing Workshop
Mon 04/05	MSTP Monday	RESEARCH UPDATE: Fillan Grady, M5G (Geerling & Buchanan lab) Colin Clark, M5G (Ahern lab)
Mon 04/12	Conversations in Research	Creative Writing Workshop
Mon 04/19	MSTP Monday	MSTP GRAND ROUNDS: Title TBA Kai Rogers, M6G (Wendy Maury Lab) Mitchell Lefebvre, M5G (John Harty Lab)
Mon 04/26	Conversations in Research	Creative Writing Workshop
Mon 05/03	MSTP Monday	RESEARCH UPDATE: Shakoora Sabree, M5G (Weiner Lab) Drew Voigt, M5G (Mullins & Scheetz Lab)
Mon 05/10	Conversations in Research	Creative Writing Workshop