Director Spotlight
On location with Neuroscience Program Director Daniel Tranel, PhD
"Join the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Iowa and become part of the bright team of scientists trying to solve the mystery of the human brain."
Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Provides collaborative support for the neuroscience community.
IDGP Neuroscience Events
Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Judy Van de Water, PhD, "Maternal immune deregulation: a role in neurodevelopment"
Friday, February 14, 2025 12:00pm
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series, featuring
Judy Van de Water, PhD, Co-Director of the UC Davis MIND Institute
"Maternal immune deregulation: a role in neurodevelopment"
Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, noon CST
Pediatric Conference Center JCP 2415
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP, or join us via zoom:
https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/99315138598?pwd=VAtvTlfhbweArCtbRfNdCK2TIt43XH.1
Meeting ID: 993 1513 8598 Passcode: 345959
*Presented in conjunction with Pediatric Grand...
Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Jesse Rose
Monday, February 17, 2025 11:00am
Jesse Rose is a current student of the Molecular Medicine Graduate Program, PhD Candidate, and is in Dr. Matt Potthoff's laboratory.
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Guest Speaker: Dr. Erin Calipari
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 4:00pm
Dr. Erin Calipari, Vanderbilt University, will be joining our Neuroscience Student Seminar Series as a guest speaker. Dr. Calipari's current roles at Vanderbilt include Director of Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology.
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar - Mauricio Oliveira, PhD
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
"Regulation of cell type-specific translatomes in response to neuronal activity and behavior"
Presented by Mauricio Oliveira, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
New York University
New York, NY
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Bill Milanick
Friday, April 4, 2025 12:00pm
Bill Milanick is a current PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. He is apart of Dr. Sam Young's lab.
Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center
Friday, May 9, 2025 12:00pm
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Director, RUSH Pediatric Neurosciences F.A.S.T. Center for Translational Research
Friday, May 9, 2025, noon CST
in the Pediatric Conference Center JCP2415
More information to come!
Outstanding Alumni
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DISSERTATION PRIZE WINNERS AWARDED BY THE GRADUATE COLLEGE. Joseph Parvizi, Michael Koenigs, and Benton Purnell (right) EARNED THE SPRIESTERSBACH DISSERTATION PRIZE. Matthew Sutterer, Arianna Rigon, Banu Gumusoglu, Victoria Muller Ewald (left) and Alex Petrucci WON THE REX MONTGOMERY DISSERTATION PRIZE.
"The fact that I was able to perform at this level and do this work is representative of this program. The strength of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Iowa is what makes it such a destination program for people.”
News & Events
Four students from the neuroscience graduate program featured in the 2025 Dare to Discover Campaign
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Congratulations to Micah Johnson on a successful thesis defense!
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Micah presented her thesis seminar and defense on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024.
Carver College of Medicine Research Events
Hardin Open Workshops - Systematic Reviews, Part 2: Literature Searching (In-Person & Zoom)
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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...
Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Basic - Online Version (Zoom)
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software that is freely available to all UI affiliates. It allows you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. EndNote Basic is not the same as the desktop software, Endnote.
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.
Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting
Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC. You are invited to join us during our monthly seminar presentations.
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Candidate Seminar - Dana Klatt Shaw, PhD
Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
"Harnessing the immune system to drive regeneration"
Presented by Dana Klatt Shaw, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Department of Developmental Biology
Washington University School of Medicine
Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)
Thursday, February 13, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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.
Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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.
Hardin Open Workshops - Scopus & Web of Science (Zoom)
Thursday, March 6, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Both databases are multidisciplinary and allow you to measure scholarly impact. This hands-on session will show you:
• How to quickly find the articles you need for you research or systematic review in each database.
• How to track an article’s cited and citing references in each database.
• How to find journal ‘Impact Factors’ using the Journal Citation Reports of Web of Science.
• How to determine an author’s h-index.
• How to identify a researcher and her/his publication track with...
Iowa Neuroscience Institute Seminar: Matthew Leonard, PhD
Friday, March 7, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Speech and language computation in the human superior temporal gyrus"
Matthew Leonard, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Weill Institute for Neurosciences
University of California, San Francisco
Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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.
Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Events
Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour
Monday, January 13, 11:00am to Monday, December 8, 2025 12:00pm
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.
CS Colloquium - Scalable Public Health Monitoring; Health-Inspired Data Science Research
Monday, February 10, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Ananya Joshi (Carnegie Mellon University) on "Scalable Public Health Monitoring; Health-Inspired Data Science Research."
ACB Seminar Series - Lindsey Barske
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 9:30am to 10:30am
Dr. Lindsey Barske, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will present a seminar titled “Sox10 is Required for Systemic Initiation of Bone Mineralization.”
Valentine's Day Pop-Up
Thursday, February 13, 2025 11:00am to 1:00pm
Get inspired for Valentine's Day with the archives.
Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Judy Van de Water, PhD, "Maternal immune deregulation: a role in neurodevelopment"
Friday, February 14, 2025 12:00pm
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series, featuring
Judy Van de Water, PhD, Co-Director of the UC Davis MIND Institute
"Maternal immune deregulation: a role in neurodevelopment"
Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, noon CST
Pediatric Conference Center JCP 2415
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP, or join us via zoom:
https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/99315138598?pwd=VAtvTlfhbweArCtbRfNdCK2TIt43XH.1
Meeting ID: 993 1513 8598 Passcode: 345959
*Presented in conjunction with Pediatric Grand...
CS Colloquium - Formal Methods or Usable Security: Why Not Both?
Friday, February 14, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
McKenna McCall (Carnegie Mellon University) on "Formal Methods or Usable Security: Why Not Both?"
Evolution of Stress Response and Adhesin Gene Family in Pathogenic Yeasts
Friday, February 14, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Speaker: Bin He, Biology Dept.
Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour
Monday, February 17, 2025 11:00am to Monday, January 12, 2026 12:00pm
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.
Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Jesse Rose
Monday, February 17, 2025 11:00am
Jesse Rose is a current student of the Molecular Medicine Graduate Program, PhD Candidate, and is in Dr. Matt Potthoff's laboratory.
Curator Guided Tour of 'A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive' with Rich Dana
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Join curator Rich Dana for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive. All are welcome to attend this free event.
This tour is offered in partnership with the Iowa City Downtown District's Free Week.
About the exhibit:
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys...