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REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file

Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic

Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables

Sending automated, conditional email alerts

Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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.

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Management of the Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Patient Conference

Thursday, August 13 to Friday, August 14, 2026 (all day)
Pomerantz Family Pavilion
This is the 33rd Annual International Conference on the management of the tinnitus and hyperacusis patient

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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 usable format...

Biomedical & Health Informatics Community Meeting

Thursday, August 13, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

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. 

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Recent Articles from the University of Iowa

Sex-specific outcomes following chorioamnionitis

Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Jessica E Knobbe
Chorioamnionitis is a common cause of perinatal inflammation and is associated with adverse neonatal and long-term outcomes. Although male infants experience higher rates and greater severity of many inflammation-related morbidities, the contribution of fetal sex to chorioamnionitis-related outcomes remains understudied. This review synthesizes evidence from human studies and animal models to evaluate how sexually dimorphic placental biology and fetal immune responses shape offspring...

Global, regional, and national burden of road injuries 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Monday, July 20, 2026
GBD 2023 Road Injuries Collaborators
BACKGROUND: Road injuries are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Years of international efforts have aimed to strengthen policy engagement, including the 2020 UN General Assembly's proclamation of the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety (2021-30), targeting a 50% reduction in road traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The aim of this study is to provide estimates to monitor progress and identify intervention gaps.

Innate Immune Cell and Epithelial Subsets Coordinate Airway Responses to Allergen

Thursday, July 16, 2026
Ryan C Murphy
CONCLUSION: Allergen challenge promotes diverse pro-inflammatory transcriptional responses in the airways, and MCs, basophils, and AECs play distinct but critical roles in coordinating this response. However, airway responses to allergen may vary considerably based on the baseline airway inflammatory endotype.

Gut microbiota and gut-derived metabolites in defining multiple sclerosis phenotypic continuum

Thursday, July 16, 2026
Federico Montini
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in which environmental factors play an important role in shaping disease risk, activity, and progression. Over the past decade, human and experimental studies have consistently shown alterations in the gut microbiome across the phenotypic spectrum of MS and have linked these changes to immune dysregulation, barrier dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and demyelination. Additionally, emerging evidence indicates...

<em>Sleeping Beauty</em> mutagenesis identifies <em>BACH2</em> and other regulators of CD8<sup>+</sup> T-cell exhaustion, persistence in vivo, and CAR-T cell function under tumor-associated chronic antigen stimulation

Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Chang-Jung Lee
CONCLUSIONS: Controllable SB mutagenesis using DiSBey mice provides a novel platform for functional screening of genes that improve T-cell phenotypes important for their use as therapies. Our findings highlight a dose-dependent role of BACH2 in enhancing the function of engineered T cells under conditions of chronic antigenic stimulation.

Mapping self-associating chromatin hubs identifies Id proteins as key determinants of exhausted CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell fate

Monday, July 6, 2026
Wei Hu
Within days of exposure to chronic viral infections, activated CD8^(+) T cells differentiate into Tcf1^(-)Slamf6^(lo)Tim3^(hi) exhaustion-prone effector T (T(EX_EFF)) cells or self-renewing Tcf1^(+)Slamf6^(hi)Tim3^(lo) precursor exhausted T (T(PEX)) cells. Here we showed that early CD8^(+) T(EX) cell fates were imprinted by forming subset-specific, self-associating chromatin hubs. Chromatin hub assembly coincided with effector or stemness gene induction and identified the transcription cofactors...

Exhausted CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell fate is programmed by dynamic CTCF-mediated enhancer activation and invariant CTCF-imposed barriers

Monday, July 6, 2026
Wei Hu
Exhausted CD8^(+) T (T(EX)) cells undergo extensive genome reorganization during differentiation, yet the drivers of this process remain elusive. Here we show that CTCF programmed CD8^(+) T(EX) cell fates through two distinct modes of action. CTCF acquired de novo binding sites and concordantly induced open chromatin in early CD8^(+) T(EX) cells responding to chronic viral infection. The dynamic CTCF binding activated enhancers and promoted chromatin looping. Consequently, genetic ablation of...

IL-17A deficiency in HLA-DR3 transgenic mice enriches beneficial Prevotella species in gut to promote Tregs and reduce CNS autoimmunity

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Shailesh K Shahi
CONCLUSIONS: This study redefines IL-17A's role in immune regulation, emphasizing its ability to directly influence gut microbiota composition and the abundance of Treg-promoting bacteria. Thus, gut microbiota-targeted therapies, particularly those promoting Treg-inducing bacteria like Prevotella species, hold promise for treating autoimmune diseases by modulating host immune responses. Video Abstract.

Comprehensive mapping of the virus and host factors that guide the paths of HIV-1 escape from a therapeutic

Saturday, June 20, 2026
Aaron N Gillman
HIV-1 resistance to therapeutics can emerge through diverse mutational routes, yet the determinants guiding pathway selection in vivo remain unclear. Through comprehensive screening, we identify 18 mutations in the HIV-1 Env protein that enhance resistance to the FDA-approved small-molecule therapeutic temsavir. We then examine their occurrence in HIV-infected individuals who developed resistance on therapy. Interestingly, only a subset of the resistance-enhancing mutations emerged in vivo....

Break-induced replication forms long mutable single-strand DNA during meiosis

Saturday, June 20, 2026
Jerzy M Twarowski
In meiosis, homologous recombination (HR) facilitates the halving of genomic content in diploid parents to produce haploid gametes, while also reshuffling genetic material. However, studies in yeast and mammals have suggested that HR during meiosis also makes the process mutagenic, and it has been proposed that the single-strand (ss) DNA formed by HR of programmed double-strand breaks (DSBs) contributes to the observed mutagenesis. To determine the full mutagenic potential of ssDNA formed during...