News, Events, PublicationsWei Li "The Role of Activator Protein 2 Transcription Factors in Zebrafish Neural Crest Development" Thesis presentation is scheduled on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 in 1-561 BSB (Bowen Science Building) McEwen Conference Room at 1 p.m. Defense follows 2 p.m. Sigmund named to Carver Chair in Hypertension Research Dr. Michael Owen, Iowa State University, will present "Impact of GMO-based Crop Production Systems on Agroecosystems Selection for Evolved Resistance to Glyphosate in Weed Populations" at the Genetics & Environment Seminar on April 21th, 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 4 p.m. Dr. John Greally, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, will present "The Unexpected Relationship of Cytosine Methylation with Gene Transcription" at the Genetics & Environment Seminar on April 7th, 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 4 p.m Dr. Alex Bassuk, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, The University of Iowa Department of Pediatics will present "The Genetics of Human Neural Tube Defects" at the Genetics & Environment Seminar on February 25th, 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 4 p.m. Anthony Fisher, "Augmenting Antiviral Host Defense in the Respiratory Epithelium" Thesis presentation is scheduled on March 7, 2008 in 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 2 p.m. Defense follows in 240 G, EMRB at 3 p.m. Matthew Dickson, "Role of USF in Regulating Angiotensinogen Expression: A "Tail" of Two Alleles" Thesis presentation is scheduled on March 27, 2008 in 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 9 a.m. Defense follows in 3112 MERFat 10 a.m. Fedik Rahimov, "Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 and Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and Palate " Thesis presentation is scheduled on April 10, 2008 in 2189 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) at 2 p.m. Defense follows in 1176 Medical Labs at 3 p.m. Students Visit the Genetics Program On February 8-10 and March 7-10, 2008 a number of students from all around the world will visit our campus as part of the recruitment process to pursue Ph.D. training at The University of Iowa. Stone reappointed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator(10/31/07) Edwin Stone, M.D., Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, who holds the Seamans-Hauser Chair of Molecular Ophthalmology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been renewed until 2012 as an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read more here: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/103107stone_reappointed.html UI's Bhattacharya, Flatté, Stinski elected 2007 AAAS Fellows (10/25/2007) Three University of Iowa faculty members, two from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one from the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, have been awarded the distinction of 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Read more here: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/102507fellowsAAAS.html UI Genetics Welcome David C Page, Director of Whitehead Institute for Retreat (10/22/07) David C Page of the Whitehead Institute will be the keynote speaker when he presents his seminar entitled “Egg or sperm? What's sex got to do with it?" at the 2007 Genetics Retreat held this year at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Iowa City. Free parking will be available to all attendees of the Retreat in the Sheraton Hotel Parking Ramp with validation. Click here to view the Retreat Flyer Click here to view the Retreat Schedule Click here to view the Abstract Book UI signs third $1.5 million Alcon contract for study of blinding eye diseases (10/11/07) The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, a joint enterprise of the University of Iowa College of Engineering and the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has signed a five-year, $1.5 million contract with Alcon Research, Ltd. of Ft. Worth, Texas, a leading ophthalmic pharmaceutical research company, for research aimed at helping to prevent blindness. Read more here:http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/101107alconcontract.html UI receives funds in genetics collaboration (9/10/07) The National Institutes of Health has selected the first projects to be funded as part of the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative, a unique collaboration between geneticists and environmental scientists. Included is a $488,000 grant to Jeffrey Murray of the University of Iowa for "Genome-wide Association Studies of Prematurity and Its Complications." Read more here: Campbell Team Finds Heart Muscle Repair Mechanism (Heartzine.com, July 7) (7/10/07) Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered that the heart muscle has a specific mechanism for repairing itself. Kevin Campbell and his colleagues at UI had identified that the protein dysferlin plays a key role in the vital repair mechanism for skeletal muscle. They also found that dysferlin deficiency in humans can lead to faulty muscle membrane repair and cause three types of muscle dystrophy. The new study, conducted at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine used laboratory mice to check the role of dysferlin in cardiomyopathy. Read more here: Iowa City One Of 30 Best Towns In America (Outside magazine, August 2007) (7/10/07) In their annual survey of the best places to live, Outside magazine picked Iowa City as the best in the Midwest. "Surrounded by hills and bisected by the Iowa River, the liberal college town is or has been home to notable writers like 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner JAMES ALAN McPHERSON and the late Kurt Vonnegut, who penned part of the seminal 'Slaughterhouse-Five' here. The University of Iowa's nearly 30,000 students keep this oak-lined Pleasantville real, with six yoga studios, the famed Prairie Lights independent bookstore, and everything from Ethiopian cafes to grilled-cheese stands." The article is not yet available online. Sigmund To Receive Corcoran Award From American Heart Association (7/3/07) Curt D. Sigmund, Ph.D., professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture Award from the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association. Read more here: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/july/070307sigmund-award.html Summer Picnic and Softball Game (7/3/07) Click here for images from the softball game held on July 2. It was a big success and we had a large turnout. There were quite a few fine players on both teams and the game ended in a tie. UI Scientists Explore Function of 'Junk DNA' Genetics Students Glen Borchert and Bill Lanier, along with faculty member Bev Davidson have discovered a new mechanism for the expression of microRNAs. Read more here: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2006/november/111306junk-dna.html Carmen Halabi wins Poster Award Carmen Halabi was one of three students from the Carver College of Medicine chosen for a Poster Award at the 2007 Research Week. Carmen's Poster was titled "Impaired Vascular Function in Transgenic Mice with smooth Muscle Cell Specific Dominant Negative hPPARy Expression." Carmen also won the American Physiological Society's 2007 Carolyn tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award. Carmen is a member of Curt Sigmund's lab. McCray Named Roy J. Carver Chair in Pulmonary Research Paul McCray Jr., M.D., professor of pediatrics in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has bee named to the Roy J. Carver Chair in Pulmonary Research. Read more here: http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/uns-archives/2006/september/091806mccray-chair.html Murray Named Roy J. Carver Chair In Perinatal Health Jeff Murray, M.D., professor of pediatrics in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been named to the Roy J. Carver Chair in Perinatal Health. Read more here: http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/uns-archives/2006/september/091806murray-carverchair.html Bridget Riley to Present at American Society of Human Genetics Bridget Riley has been selected to present a talk entitled "Mutation in FGF Signaling Pathway Genes Contribute to Cleft Lip and Palate" at the Plenary Session of the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in New Orleans, LA. Bridget’s abstract was selected as one of six from over 2000. http://www.ashg.org/genetics/ashg/menu-annmeet.shtml UI Biologist and Director of Genetics Graduate Program Wins $1.1 Million NIH Grant To Study Red Tide http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/uns-archives/2006/june/061906tide_grant.html |
