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UMaine Institute of Medicine

Veterinary Forensic Pathology and One Health

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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 […]

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Identifying tissue-specific nutrient-sensing effects on growth, health, and longevity in C. elegans

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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 […]

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Community Engagement to Enhance Research in Maine

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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 […]

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Limb vs Tail – Two modes of tissue regeneration in axolotl

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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 […]

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Microbes at the nexus of environmental, biological, and social research

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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 […]

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The Human Microbiome and Health Inequities

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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 […]

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“The role of microbiomes in sustainable agriculture and food systems integrated with human health”

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Speaker: Dr. Frank Carbonero, PhD About the Speaker:  Dr. Frank Carbonero, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. He received his Bachelor's of Science in Biology from Universite Joseph Fourier, in France, his Master's of Science degree in Ecology […]

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“Diet, Microbial Metabolites, and Cancer Disparities”

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Speaker: Dr. Patricia Wolf, PhD, RD About the Speaker: Dr. Wolf completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences with a focus on microbial sulfur metabolism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2018. During her graduate training, she simultaneously completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and became a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Since that time, […]

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Fishing for Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Health in Zebrafish

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Speaker: Clarissa Henry, Ph.D. Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, Director, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering About the Speaker: The goal of my research program is to understand how dynamic interactions between cells and their extracellular matrix mediate morphogenesis, and how disruption of cell-matrix interactions leads to disease states. Aberrant cell-matrix interactions cause […]

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Medical Rounds in the Museum: Representation of Science and Medicine in Paintings

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Intermedia Programs and the Institute of Medicine invite you to a virtual Arts and Humanities in Medicine lecture. Speaker: Dr. Hermann Haller, President of MDI Biological Laboratory Title: Medical Rounds in the Museum: Representation of Science and Medicine in Paintings Contact: For event link, please email Augusta Sparks Farnum: augusta.farnum@maine.edu

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