Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science. Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Dr. Beverly Davidson, an a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will present a seminar titled "Engineering Gene Therapies for Inherited Disorders." 

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: Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

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.

"Insights into the genetic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders through the lens of human-specific genome structural instability" Presented by Bo Zhou, PhD Instructor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine

Join us for a reception with Barbara Weets, watercolor artist from Anamosa, Iowa, whose work is on display in the 2nd floor Connector Gallery between PBDB and MERF.

Tara Finegan, PhD, an Assistant Research Professor and Director of the Advanced Light Microscopy Core in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri, will be giving a seminar at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).

EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing bibliographic records with abstracts. Although there is overlap with records from PubMed, there are also many unique records. This hands-on session will show you how to conduct basic searches using EMBASE’s quick search box, how to conduct searches using EMTREE subject headings, and how to use subheadings for drug and disease topics. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be...

"Regulation of Feeding and Energy Balance by Serotonin Circuits and the Gut-Brain Axis" Presented by Zepeng Yao, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Florida

Isabelle Derre, PhD UVA School of Medicine Host: Mary Weber, PhD