"Indirect Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Modulation as a Gateway to Pain Relief"Presented byKimberly Gomez, MSc, PhDPostdoctoral AssociateDept of Pharmacology & TherapeuticsCollege of MedicineUniversity of Florida

Students planning to graduate in the spring 2025 semester are encouraged to pick up their cap and gown at GradFest 2025 in the IMU’s Main Lounge.Enjoy free snacks and fun activities, snag exclusive freebies and discounts, learn about alumni resources, and catch up on your graduation checklist.Diploma frames, graduation announcements, class rings, and other items will be available on-site!

Jie Li, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Tootle Lab, will present a seminar titled “The roles of PGD2 and its Synthase GstS1 in Drosophila Eggshell Development."Brendan Creemer, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Ryan Lab, will present a seminar titled ““Determining the Role Integrin a6 in Regulating Airway Basal Cell Stemness."

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: Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options. PLEASE NOTE Advance registration...

Attend the Rural Health in Iowa Virtual Career Fair on Wednesday, April 16, 1–4 p.m. This event will be for the following professional health students to attend who are seeking full-time positions:College of DentistryCollege of Public HealthCollege of NursingMedical Laboratory Science ProgramRadiation Sciences ProgramNuclear Medicine Technology ProgramCollege of PharmacySocial WorkCounseling PsychologyPhysical Therapy

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: Advance registration is required to participate on Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

In this session, attendees will explore the transformative power of self-compassion and practical strategies for integrating it into daily life. Drawing on current research and real-life examples, this presentation will challenge the harmful perfectionism that often accompanies our work and personal lives, offering a refreshing perspective on how being kinder to ourselves can enhance our well-being and productivity. Participants will leave with actionable tools to practice self-compassion and...

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: Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup() Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables Transforming unusable data to a...

This event is open to the public."Cadherin regulation of planar cell polarity in the mammalian epidermis"Sara Stahley, PhDAssistant Professor of Dermatology and of Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyPennsylvania State University Cancer InstituteFaculty Host: Kris DeMali, PhDStahley Lab | https://sites.psu.edu/stahleylab/