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UMaine Institute of Medicine

Cellular and Molecular Determinants of a Fatal Viral Infection

Virtual

Please join us for the third UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker: Melissa Maginnis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Maginnis was born and raised in Pennsylvania and earned […]

Ecological and social drivers of the spread of vector-borne diseases

Virtual

Please join us for the fourth UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker:  Allison (Allie) Gardner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and a cooperating faculty member in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences program. […]

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The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research from the Engineering Perspective

Virtual

Please join us for the fifth UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker:  Somayeh Khosroazad, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Dr. Khosroazad received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ferdowsi University of […]

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Water pollution, rising temperatures and a mysterious kidney disease

Virtual

Please join us for the sixth UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker:  Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Environmental Physiology and Toxicology Lab, School of Marine Sciences & Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, University of Maine, […]

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A crash course in the gut microbiome

Virtual

Please join us for the seventh UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker:  Suzanne (Sue) Ishaq, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences   The Ishaq Lab was established at the University of Maine, Orono in the School […]

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A novel role of wild blueberry phenolic extracts to promote endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis associated with wound healing and tissue regeneration

Virtual

Please join us for the eighth UMaine Medicine Fall 2020 Seminar. This seminar series will take place every Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm from September 25 through November 13. Speaker:  Dorothy Klimis, Ph.D. FACN, Professor of Clinical Nutrition, School of Food and Agriculture and cooperating professor of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering […]

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An Indigenous Micro – to Meta-Narrative: Microbes and Social Equity – Dr. Nicole Redvers

Virtual

About 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

Virtual

About 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

Virtual

Microbes 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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