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UMaine Institute of Medicine

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

Virtual

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”

Virtual

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

Virtual

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

Virtual

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

The Epidemic of Elder Isolation and Loneliness Accompanying COVID-19

Virtual

Speakers: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Director, UMaine Center on Aging, Professor, UMaine School of Social Work Clifford Milo Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF, Chief of Geriatric Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry at Acadia Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center About the Seminar: This seminar will consider the unprecedented negative impacts that COVID-19 has had on older […]

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20 important questions in microbial exposure and social equity + recent work on urban greenspace microbiomes

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Speaker:  Dr. Jake Robinson, PhD About the Speaker:  Dr. Jake Robinson is an ecologist and researcher. He recently completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield, UK. His academic interests lie at the intersection of microbial ecology, ecosystem restoration and social research. He will soon be publishing a book called Invisible Friends, which is all about our […]

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Antimicrobial Resistance: Our Next Epidemic of Inequality?

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Maya L. Nadimpalli, MS, PhD About the Speaker: About the speaker: Dr. Maya L. Nadimpalli, MS, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor and a Tufts Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) a KL2 Scholar in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance […]

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Super-Resolution Microscopy: Illuminating Mechanisms of Virus Infection and Host Cell Function

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Speaker: Sam Hess, Ph.D. Professor of Physics / Cooperating Professor of Chemistry, University of Maine About the seminar:  Super-resolution microscopy has enabled entirely new approaches to understanding biological systems, and was recognized in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We use FPALM (S.T. Hess et al. Biophysical Journal, 2006) to explore the mechanisms of influenza […]

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Title TBD, with a focus gender, sexuality, and food systems

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Gabriel N. Rosenberg, PhD About the Speaker:Dr. Gabriel N. Rosenberg, PhD is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History at Duke University. From his […]

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