Research Zoom seminars and workshops:
A list of zoom seminars and workshops is available on the UI Events Calendar. If you have an event to add and need assistance, please contact Sonya Housholder.
Support Resources
The University Counseling Service (UCS) offers opportunities for University of Iowa faculty, staff and students regardless of their current location, and intended to provide support and information while normal operating procedures at the university are suspended in response to COVID-19. Visit the UCS website for more information about all of these programs and information about additional services. The UCS offers a variety of virtual Zoom workshops and other opportunities.
Other Learning Opportunities
Articles:
- "The man who discovered that unwashed hands could kill -- and was ridiculed for it"
Nice historical piece about the origins of germ theory. An homage to Ignaz Semmelweis.
Interest Groups & Journal Clubs:
- STEMCELL Online Journal Club: Neuroscience Series
- Pain Interest Group: Work-in-Progress, Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am
- Structural Biology Interest Group, Every other Thursday, 9:00-10:00am
- Stem Cells and Neurodevelopment, First Friday of every month, 1:00-2:00pm
- Topics in Radiation and Cancer Biology, Every other Monday, 11:30-12:30pm
- Topics in Free Radical Biology and Medicine Journal Club, Every other Monday, 11:30-12:30pm
Recorded Seminars & Videos:
- "Care of Non-English speaking patients with COVID-19", Internal Medicine Grand rounds, June 18
- "The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health (of patients and providers)", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, June 4
- "Cytokine storms and COVID-19", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, May 28
- "Cardiac Abnormalities and COVID-19", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, May 21
- "Back to the Basics: Immunopathogenesis of COVID-19", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, May 14
- "COVID-19 and the Kidney and Neurological Complications of COVID-19", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, May 7
- MedCram, Medical Lectures Explained Clearly (YouTube)
- "Coronavirus", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds featuring Drs. Stan Perlman and Jorge Salinas
- "Lessons Learned from SARS", Internal Medicine Grand Rounds featuring Drs. Loreen Herwaldt, Jorge Salinas and Dan Diekema
- "The Neurological Complications of COVID-19", Neurology Grand Rounds, featuring Drs. Christine Gill and Lama Abdel Wahed
- "Genome Editing: A View from the Edge" by Dr. Dana Carroll, Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture
- "Opportunities and Challenges in Mental Health Research" by Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health
- "Leptin and the Homeostatic Control of Food Intake and Body Weight" by Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture
- "Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons" by Dr. Judith Campisi, Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture
- "The Metabolic Biology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Health and Disease" by Dr. Gökhan Hotamιslιgil, Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture
Webinars:
- Bruker NMR Trainings
- Anytime, Self-Paced Biology courses by iBiology
- National Institute for General Medical Sciences
- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- U.S National Library of Medicine
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)/National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM)
Offer a wide variety of training resources, including live classes, webinars, and online videos and tutorials. Most of these are designed to help you get more out of NLM's products and services, but other topics are covered too. NLM also provides training grants and fellowships. - Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Offers regularly recurring webinars on a variety of topics covering science policy, advocacy, professional development opportunities, and more. - Labroots Webinars
Learn from experts and earn continuing education credits on industry topics, progress in research, services available, and more. - RStudio webinar collection
This URL has a collection of webinars on programming and data analysis in R geared to all levels. Beginners in R might consider the webinar "A gentle introduction to tidy statistics in R". - New England BioLabs (NEB) Webinar Series
Hear from NEB scientists as they discuss of a wide range of molecular biology topics and techniques, such as the latest cloning and DNA assembly, PCR and qPCR, sample preparation for next generation sequencing, and much more. - The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Online MiniCourses
Offers access to online modules enabling learners to engage online at any time and at their own pace, search for specific content, document progress through digital badges, and bundle courses into certificates to demonstrate a deeper knowledge of key topics related to mouse genetics. - The Biophysical Society made their Career Development Webinars free for all.
- Biorender webinars: Figures, Posters, Biborender-ing 101.
- Bioinformatics online courses:
- Learn to program using Python:
- https://www.pcworld.com/article/3287981/best-python-courses.html
- https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/using-python-research
- https://medium.com/swlh/5-free-python-courses-for-beginners-to-learn-online-e1ca90687caf
- https://www.java67.com/2017/05/top-7-free-python-programming-books-pdf-online-download.html
- A web-based set of Python tutorials: https://pynative.com
- Some exercises to practice what you're learning about Python
- Protein/nucleic acid modeling program:
- PyMol
- PyMol help
- The Protein DataBank (source of structures)
Websites:
- National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative
Interactive web-based instruction, expert videos, and articles of neuroscience relevant to psychiatry - G2C Online
Interactive website with neuroscience information at multiple levels including high yield brief articles and expert videos by Cold Spring Harbor - EdgeforScholars: Lab-related things to do at home
What meaningful activities can we perform given the inability to physically meet or be in our lab? Ideas include re-analyze data, reorganize digital content, re-prioritize, look for new grant opportunities, review articles and more.