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An Indigenous Micro – to Meta-Narrative: Microbes and Social Equity – Dr. Nicole Redvers
VirtualAbout the speaker: Dr. Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, is a member of the Deninu K’ue (pronounced “Deneh-noo-kweh”) First Nation tribe from northern Canada and is currently an assistant professor in the department of family & community medicine at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She is co-founder and chair of […]
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Ethics and Inequities in an Age of Precision Medicine: Insights from Medical Sociology
VirtualAbout the speaker: Katherine (Kate) Weatherford Darling, PhD is a Sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology from the University of Maine at Augusta Bangor Campus, working across the boundaries of medical sociology, feminist science studies, public health and bioethics. Her research examines the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI’s) of biomedical and genomic sciences in […]
Extended Health – Dr. Gus Skorburg
VirtualMicrobes and Social Equity speaker series, spring 2021 About the speaker: Dr. Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Academic Co-Director of the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI), and Faculty Affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor […]
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Glucocorticoid-induced Developmental Programming: The Link Between Early Life Stress and Adult Disease Risk
VirtualSpeaker: James A. Coffman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MDIBL. Director, Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) How much does your health, your susceptibility to disease, and your rate of aging depend on the environment in which you were raised? Or for that matter, on the environments to which your parents or grandparents were exposed? […]
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The human microbiome and cancer risk: setting the stage for innovative studies to address cancer disparities – Dr. Byrd
VirtualSpeaker: Dr. Doratha Byrd, MPH, PhD About the speaker: Dr. Byrd received a B.S. in biology and an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Florida. She completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Emory University, where her dissertation research focused on the development and validation of novel, inflammation biomarker panel-weighted dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores, […]
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The Fast-paced, Ever-Changing Healthcare Environment: Early Findings about Microbial Presence and the Cost of Isolation Procedures
VirtualSpeaker: Debbie Saber, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions - Faculty Associate, Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE). University of Maine Dr. Saber aims to understand microbial dispersion within healthcare institutions to ultimately drive policy and procedures towards the highest level of standardized prevention […]
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Connecting environmental microbiomes to social (in)equity across temporal and ecological scales
VirtualSpeakers: Dr. Erin Eggleston and Dr. Mallory Choudoir About the speakers: Dr. Erin Eggleston, PhD, is an assistant professor of biology at Middlebury College. Her research focuses on molecular microbial ecology. Recent projects include mercury-cycling microbes in the soils of the St. Lawrence River, coral microbiome and reef resilience, and community dynamics of harmful cyanobacterial […]
Building Intergenerational Resilience- A Collaborative Community Effort
VirtualSpeakers: Janice L. Pelletier, MD, FAAP with Jennifer Curran Ph.D, and Mary Tedesco-Schneck, Ph.D, RN, CPNP. About the speakers: Janice Pelletier is a pediatrician, teacher, researcher, and advocate in this […]
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The Global Microbiome: microbes and public health beyond biology – Dr. Amber Benezra
VirtualAbout the speaker: Dr. Amber Benezra is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a sociocultural anthropologist researching how studies of the […]
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