Section leader: Patricia Wolf While it has been established that human behavior may impact microbiome structure, it has become evident that this is only part of the story. Historically racist housing policies may lead to inequitable exposure of those living in segregated neighborhoods to environmental pollutants. Additionally, life-long exposure to social and environmental stress faced […]
Section leader: Emily Wissel Access to healthcare, including treatment and preventative care, is critical to moderate beneficial host-microbe interactions and mitigate host-pathogen interactions, yet healthcare is inequitably distributed and often curbed by social policy. For instance, maternity care is well-demonstrated to improve health outcomes and facilitate the transfer of beneficial maternal microbes to newborns. Policies […]
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Speaker: Hermann Haller, M.D., President, MDI Biological Laboratory About the Speaker: Hermann Haller, M.D. an international leader in kidney disease, hypertension and kidney and blood vessel regeneration, was appointed president of the MDI Biological Laboratory on July 26, 2018. Haller has been associated with the MDI Biological Laboratory for over two decades, and has served […]
Speaker: Nanny Wenzlow, DVM, PhD, MRCVS About the Speaker: Dr. Nanny Wenzlow, is a trained anatomic pathology veterinarian with a DVM degree from Belgium and residency training from Switzerland and the UK. After a few months of private diagnostic pathology service in the UK, Dr. Wenzlow joined the University of Florida initially as clinical instructor for anatomic […]
Speaker: Aric Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MDIBL About the Speaker: Dr. Aric Rogers is Assistant Professor of Regenerative Biology and Medicine at MDI Biological Laboratory. He received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2005, he began postdoctoral research at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging under the […]
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD MPP, Vice President for Research, MaineHealth, Director, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Interim Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation About the Speaker: Liz Jacobs is Vice President for Research at Maine Medical Center Research Institute and Interim Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation . Prior to […]
Speaker: Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, MDIBL About the Speaker: Dr. Murawala studied across India – Bharuch, Anand, Vadodara, Mumbai, Bangalore – before settling for his graduate studies in the lab of Dr. Jomon Joseph at the NCCS in Pune (2005-2010). He then moved to Europe in Dr. Elly Tanaka’s lab at the MPI-CBG Research institute […]
Section leader: Dr. Sue Ishaq, PhD Dr. Sue Ishaq is an Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Science at the University of Maine, in the School of Food and Agriculture. She received her doctorate in Animal, Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont in 2015 where her graduate study focused on the rumen […]
Speaker: Dr. Katherine (Katie) Amato, PhD About the Speaker: Dr. Katherine (Katie) Amato is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. From her faculty profile page: “Katie Amato is a biological anthropologist studying the gut microbiota in the broad context of host ecology and evolution. She is particularly interested in understanding how changes in […]
