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March 2023
Towards developing a multisensory dining ecosystem (EatCoSystem) to stimulate appetite and motivate older adults to eat better
Speaker: Nimesha Ranasinghe, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine About the speaker: Nimesha Ranasinghe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine and Co-founder of FlaVR Labs Inc. Dr. Ranasinghe's research interests include Multisensory Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Augmented and Virtual Reality. Nimesha is particularly interested in exploring the concept of 'Flavor Interfaces' where computing technologies can be applied to augment the traditional human-food interactions at the dining table. He is…
Find out more »Religion, Race and the Microbe: Theological Analysis of Public Health Resistance in the Pandemicine
Speaker: Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Bradford is a research scholar in NC State’s Public Science Lab for Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity of Humans and Food where she draws together interdisciplinary engagement of microbes, exploring fermentation, probiotic health and pathogens. Working at the intersections of religion, microbiology, ecology and race, Dr. Bradford’s research investigates the historical entanglement of disease theories, public health strategy, Christian thought, and coloniality to cultivate ecological wisdom, scientific engagement and the pursuit of…
Find out more »April 2023
“The human-valued interest in microbiome science is the distillation of human-environmental interactions”
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Schnorr is a Post Doctorial Researcher at the University of Vienna. "I am formally trained as a biological anthropologist and human biologist, and pursued research on the topics of human diet in human evolutionary ecology. I studied in particular the capacity for digesting plant material from wild foods, and how this is facilitated by both technology and the gut microbiome, as an auxiliary adaptative mechanisms in human health. I studied also ancient…
Find out more »“Anthropology, Microbiomes, and Antimicrobial Resistance”
Speaker: Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Cecil Lewis is a Professor and biological and interdiscplinary scientist based at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research focus is the microbiome and community-engaged research, with current work that investigates ancient and contemporary human metabolomes, pathogen evolution, the impact of colonialism on the microbiome and metabolome, along with progressive community-based partnerships across the Americas and Africa. His work is supported by the NSF and NIH. He is the founder and…
Find out more »“Soil health – towards a ‘microbial agriculture’?“
Speaker: Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD. and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Speakers: Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Oulu, and a research leader in the Biodiverse Anthropocenes programme (Anna Krzywoszynska | University of Oulu). She is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist with expertise in agricultural and environmental knowledge, more-than-human research, and public participation in science. Her current research interests include human-soil relations and knowledge systems, the co-production of soil knowledge between science and society,…
Find out more »Panel Discussion on the environment, microbes, and us
Speakers: Dr. Jake Robinson, PhD., David Good, University of Guelph, Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD., Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD., Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD., Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD., and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Panel: This week, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 3 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the importance of environmental microbiomes and our place in ecosystems, and then will continue talking about soil health. Panel will be hosted by Katherine Daiy, Kieran O’Doherty, Mallory…
Find out more »May 2023
Panel Discussion on the environment, microbes, and us
Speakers: Dr. Jake Robinson, PhD., David Good, University of Guelph, Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD., Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD., Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD., Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD., and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Seminar: This week, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 3 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the importance of environmental microbiomes and our place in ecosystems, and then will continue talking about soil health. Panel will be hosted by Katherine Daiy, Kieran O’Doherty, Mallory…
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