A listing of research events of interest on the U of I health sciences campus.

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Pain Interest Group Workshop - Agatha Greenway

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

The potential role of a cerebellar-cingulate circuit in migraine

Presented by Agatha Greenway
Graduate Student in Dr. Levi Sower's Lab

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Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance...

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Study Hall

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Alexandra Petrucci, PhD

Thursday, October 16, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Seizure Circuit Activity in the TMEV Model of Infection-induced Epilepsy

Alexandra Petrucci, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

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Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture

Thursday, October 16, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas.

Mark L. Andermann, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Neurobiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

"Computing with Second Messenger Signals in the Awake Brain"

Co-Sponsored by: The Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
and the Michael J. Brody Memorial Lecture
Host: Rory Fisher, PhD

Thursday, October 16, 2025
4:00 - 5:00 pm...

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Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture - Mark L. Andermann, PhD

Thursday, October 16, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas.

The seminars will be of broad interest and are open to all University of Iowa faculty, staff, students and the public.

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar - Ava Carter, PhD

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Virtual

Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-specific gene regulation in the brain

Ava Carter, PhD
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

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Pain Interest Group Seminar - Garry Gold, MD

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Osteoarthritis: New insights from Imaging

Garry E. Gold, MD
Stanford Medicine Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering & Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

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Study Hall

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
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Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (In Person and Zoom)

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Hardin Library for Health Sciences

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:

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance registration is required for Zoom classes, though walk-ins...

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Hardin Open Workshops - Systematic Reviews, Part 2: Literature Searching (Zoom)

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Hardin Library for Health Sciences

This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies, and saving and organizing references.

We suggest that “Nuts and Bolts of a Systematic Review” be taken before...

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Walter Saide, PhD

Thursday, October 23, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

Mutation of PRKAR1B produces robust deficits in neurodevelopment, learning, and nociception

Walter Saide, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Stefan Strack's Lab

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Shelley Minteer

Thursday, October 23, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

"TBA"

Shelley Minteer, PhD
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Faculty Host: Anthony Pedley, PhD

Minteer Lab | https://sites.mst.edu/shelleyminteer/research/

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Study Hall

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Hannah Wayment-Steele

Thursday, October 30, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

"TBA"

Hannah Wayment-Steele, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Faculty Host: Ernesto Fuentes, PhD

Wayment-Steele Lab | https://waymentsteelelab.org/

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