Events

Physician-Scientist Enhancement Program Lecture Series: Lecture 2

Topic: Balancing and Approaching the Complex Requirements and Stumbling Blocks to a Successful Career as a Physician-Scientist
Dr. Meyskens will detail the conventional financial and other resources available to physician-scientists during medical school. Opportunities for those who decide to become physician-scientists after medical school or as pre-career, mid-career or senior faculty members will also be reviewed.

UC Love Data Week

Join us for a series of presentations and workshops on a wide range of data-related topics, including: Data sharing, ethics, ownership, security, Finding sources of data, Data visualization, Resources such as Dryad Data Repository, ICPSR, Proquest, Tools including R, Python, Excel, command line, SQL, and Text mining, NLP, statistics, web scraping methods.

COVID-19 Vaccine Basics a Community Information Session: The Why, What, Where & When

The UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences has a unique opportunity to share expert perspectives from both Pharmaceutical Scientists and Clinicians. Join us for a community information session and learn the basics about COVID-19 Vaccines and what to expect as they become more widely available.

ASK THE DOC: Q&A Panel on Down Syndrome & Alzheimer’s Disease

Do you have questions about Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease?
Ask the Doc! Join experts Dr. Ira Lott, Dr. Elizabeth Head, and Eric Doran this Thursday for a live virtual Q&A panel.

Innovations in Online and Digital Education: Speaker Series

Topic: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Online
How are UC faculty and staff supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in their online courses? What are effective strategies to help students feel welcome in courses during the pandemic? Hosted by the Innovative Learning Technology Initiative, this webinar features instructors from three different campuses discussing their experiences in 2020–21.

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series: Coronavirus, Research, Vaccines and Herd Immunity

Panel: Michael J. Buchmeier, PhD: Associate Director, Center for Virus Research; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. John Gerace: President, DiaSorin Molecular LLC. Thomas E. Lane, PhD: Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD: Director, Center for Virus Research; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Andrew Noymer, PhD: Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention.
More details and registration information coming soon.

Fireside Chat with Dr. Nora Volkow, MD

Join us for a Fireside Chat with Dr. Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. NIDA supports most of the world’s research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. We are excited to have Dr. Volkow engage with University of California for a lively and dynamic discussion. For a preview, you can watch Dr. Volkow discuss her work in her NIDA blog or during her TEDMED and Moth talks.

Conte Center@UCI Speaker

Topic: Stress, Social Relationships, and Pathways to Mental and Physical Health
Speaker: Jenalee Doom, PhD; Assistant Professor; Department of Psychology; Stress, Early Experiences, and Development (SEED) Center; University of Denver

How to Bring an IVD to Market Globally

This short course is aimed at those working to develop products in a global regulatory environment. The design process for IVD is similar across different geographical regions. However, the way in which data is formatted, reviewed, and approved varies. This course will walk the audience through each step of the design process and examine how this data can be used to compile submissions to meet local and regional regulatory frameworks.

SABER West Conference

SABER West is geared toward STEM educators and education researchers with meeting goals including increasing interactions among STEM educators and education researchers, fostering collaborations between 2-year and 4-year institutions, and providing professional development to conduct education research and implement evidence-based teaching practices.