Guest speaker, Furkan Burak, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School will be giving a talk title, "The fat talks and the body listens! The effects of palmitoleic acid on metabolic syndrome".

Ashby Martin is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Dan Tranel's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating and...

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Spring 2026, these will occur in 2117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Jan. 20: CANCELED

Jan. 27: Lori Wallrath, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Feb. 3...

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

In Search of the Holy Grail for Low Back Pain. Or Anything that Works at All.

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD
Professor, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Vice Chair, Implementation of Spine Health Innovations, Duke University
CEO, Spine Institute for Quality
Adjunct Professor, University of Iowa

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
• And more

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