UMaine Institute of Medicine

Speaker: Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Bradford is a research scholar in NC State’s Public Science Lab for Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity of Humans and Food where she draws together interdisciplinary engagement of microbes, exploring fermentation, probiotic health and pathogens. Working at the intersections of religion, microbiology, ecology and race, Dr. Bradford’s […]

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Schnorr is a Post Doctorial Researcher at the University of Vienna. "I am formally trained as a biological anthropologist and human biologist, and pursued research on the topics of human diet in human evolutionary ecology. I studied in particular the capacity for digesting plant material from wild […]

Speaker: Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD. About the Speaker: Dr. Cecil Lewis is a Professor and biological and interdiscplinary scientist based at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research focus is the microbiome and community-engaged research, with current work that investigates ancient and contemporary human metabolomes, pathogen evolution, the impact of colonialism on the microbiome and […]

Speaker: Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD. and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Speakers: Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Oulu, and a research leader in the Biodiverse Anthropocenes programme (Anna Krzywoszynska | University of Oulu). She is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist with expertise in agricultural and environmental knowledge, more-than-human […]

Speakers: Dr. Jake Robinson, PhD., David Good, University of Guelph, Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD., Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD., Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD., Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD., and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Panel: This week, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 3 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the importance of […]

Speakers: Dr. Jake Robinson, PhD., David Good, University of Guelph, Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, PhD., Dr. Stephanie Schnorr, PhD., Dr. Cecil Lewis, PhD., Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska, PhD., and Paula Palanco Lopez About the Seminar: This week, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 3 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the importance of […]