UMaine Institute of Medicine
UMaine Institute of Medicine
Week of Events
“Diet, Microbial Metabolites, and Cancer Disparities”
“Diet, Microbial Metabolites, and Cancer Disparities”
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, […]
Fishing for Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Health in Zebrafish
Fishing for Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Health in Zebrafish
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 […]