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UMaine Institute of Medicine

“What Connects Us: stories of working across difference with humans and microbes”

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Maya Hey, PhD About the Speaker: Dr. Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Future Organisms project as part of an international trans-disciplinary team investigating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). She brings a humanities and social science perspective to the life sciences, calling upon feminist, intersectional, and multispecies approaches to map out […]

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It’s about time: ecological and eco-evolutionary dynamics across the scales

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Liat Shenhav, PhD About the Speaker:   Dr. Liat Shenhav is an independent research fellow at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at the Rockefeller University. Prior to that, Liat received a B.Sc. and. M.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los […]

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2022 Microbes and Social Equity summer symposium

Virtual

The symposium will be held over zoom on July 18 – 22, 2022, 12:30 – 16:00 EST. Registration is free, and anyone is welcome. The details of the program can be found here. Symposium description: To understand a microbiome, you must learn about the bustling community of microorganisms and the complex ecosystems they live in, because one […]

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Personalized nutrition and the human gut microbiome

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Sean Gibbons, PhD About the Speaker: Dr. Sean Gibbons is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology, a non-profit research consortium. His lab develops computational and experimental […]

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Intersecting breastmilk and microbiome science with the complexity of working with humans in a clinical context

Speaker: Dr. Merilee Brockway, PhD RN IBCLC, University of Calgary About the Speaker: Dr. Merilee Brockway is a PhD prepared nurse and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with expertise in maternal-child health, infant feeding, and patient engagement. She completed my PhD in nursing at the University of Calgary, examining maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and infant feeding […]

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The vaginal microbiome: key for women’s health & healthy newborns

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lebeer, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lebeer is a research professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has studied bioscience engineering, with a specialisation in cell and gene biotechnology and food & health and obtained her Master’s degree at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2004. […]

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