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SUMMARY:IoM & COA Seminar: Clinicians' Role in Assessing Driving Fitness with Dr. Hansmann and Dr. Meuser
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Medicine and Center on Aging present: Clinicians’ Role in Assessing Driving Fitness with Dr. KJ Hansmann and Dr. Tom Meuser. State driver licensing officials rely on the expertise of physicians and other clinical health professionals to assess medical fitness to drive. Certain health and functional conditions can impact driving fitness – temporarily (e.g.\,  joint replacement\, a minor stroke) or permanently (e.g.\, dementia\, macular degeneration). In this presentation\, Dr. Hansmann\, a family physician\, will detail her journey to foster inclusive\, person-centered\, and evidenced-based approaches to driving evaluation and what follows. Balancing a patient’s health and daily needs with the legal-ethical requirements of driving can be challenging\, but there’s always room for dialogue and reasoned compromise. Participants will learn proven ways to engage patients and families around questions of driving fitness. \nOur Speakers:  \nDr. KJ Hansmann: KJ Hansmann\, MD\, MPH\, PhD (she/they) joined the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in 2024 as a family medicine doctor and health services researcher. Her research focuses on leveraging our understanding of social determinants of health to design and implement clinical care interventions that promote health equity across the life course. Through postdoctoral research training after completing her clinical residency in family medicine at University of Wisconsin\, she developed skills in multivariable statistical modeling and health equity research as well as content expertise in driving cessation. Dr. Hansmann’s long-term research goal is to investigate and implement interventions that help older adults navigate complex life transitions with their caregivers in the context of their social determinants of health. Her current research focuses on clinical care pathways that can help older adults with dementia and their caregivers navigate transitions to stopping driving. \nDr. Tom Meuser: Tom Meuser is a clinical psychologist\, applied gerontologist\, and social scientist based in Portland\, Maine. He moved here in 2018 from Missouri to serve as the Founding Director for the University of New England Center for Excellence in Aging & Health. He retired from this role in 2024 and is now self-employed as a geriatric neuropsychologist (https://geropsychmaine.com/) and a researcher-educator for both the Maine Bureaus of Motor Vehicles and Highway Safety. Tom led the team which developed Missouri’s approach to the medical evaluation of at-risk drivers in 2009. He was also the program evaluator for the AMA’s Older Drivers Project (which continues now through AGS). His 2025 speaking tour in Maine focuses on informing and empowering older adults\, as well as the clinical providers who serve them\, to make reasoned decisions on driving mobility. Maine’s regulations are an important focus too. He can be reached at tom.meuser@maine.gov. \nJoin us on November 12th\, 2025 at 12:00 PM in Smith Hall\, room 107 for this discussion! \nThis event is FREE to attend\, however REGISTRATION is required for virtual attendance 
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/iom-coa-seminar-clinicians-role-in-assessing-driving-fitness-with-dr-meuser-and-dr-hansmann/
LOCATION:Smith Hall
CATEGORIES:Education,Seminar Series,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T140000
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SUMMARY:Fungal responses to global climate change and potential impacts to our ecosystems and public health
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares\, PhD. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares\, PhD.\, is an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University. She is a soil microbiologist who works at the intersection of ecosystem ecology and evolution with an emphasis on fungi. She did her bachelor’s degree in Biology and master’s degree in Molecular Ecology at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Dr. Romero-Olivares completed her PhD in the University of California Irvine\, where she investigated the effects of global warming on the soil fungal communities of boreal forests in Alaska and consequences for decomposition and the carbon cycle. As a postdoctoral scholar in the University of New Hampshire\, she studied fungal communities in temperate forests in New England experiencing long-term simulated warming and nitrogen pollution and impacts to the cycling of carbon. Dr. Romero-Olivares is now an Assistant Professor in New Mexico State University. In her lab\, they are interested in understanding how fungi respond and adapt to environmental stress. Their overall research goal is to better understand and plan for ecosystem-scale effects of global climate change. Visit her lab \nRegistration is required but free. Register now!
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/fungal-responses-to-global-climate-change-and-potential-impacts-to-our-ecosystems-and-public-health/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20250123T164953Z
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SUMMARY:Defending against Phage Predators: Trading Public Goods via Integrons
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Landon Getz\, PhD. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Landon J. Getz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Landon is a Gay/Queer man and a molecular bacteriologist specializing in bacterial genetics and phage-host interactions. He is a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow and the recipient of the inaugural GSK-EPIC Convergence Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Getz’s work is currently focused on the collaborative and competitive relationship between bacteriophages\, viruses that infect bacteria\, and their bacterial hosts. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister here!
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/defending-against-phage-predators-trading-public-goods-via-integrons/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T120000
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SUMMARY:The Scoop and Poop: Agricultural microbiomes and social equity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Adina Howe\, PhD. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Adina Howe is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University.  She leads the Genomics and Environmental Research in Microbial Systems (GERMS) Laboratory. The goal of the GERMS Lab is to understand and manage the impacts of microbiology as we continuously change the environment that we live in. In her free time\, she enjoys being outside with the family including her two dogs\, board games\, and playing city recreational sports. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister here!
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/the-scoop-and-poop-agricultural-microbiomes-and-social-equity/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241220T140000
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CREATED:20240319T141710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T154749Z
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SUMMARY:Advancing Queer and Transgender Equity in Science (AQTES)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Advancing Queer and Transgender Equity in Science (AQTES) working group \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-8/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T193737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241107T163552Z
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SUMMARY:Building multifunctional agricultural landscapes – from microbes to people
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Aidee Guzman\, PhD. Assistant Professor\, Department of Biology\, Standford University. \nLab website here. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-7/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T193102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240702T131832Z
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SUMMARY:Fungal responses to global climate change and potential impacts to our ecosystems and public health
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares\, PhD.\, Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University. She is a soil microbiologist who works at the intersection of ecosystem ecology and evolution with an emphasis on fungi. She did her bachelor’s degree in Biology and master’s degree in Molecular Ecology at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Dr. Romero-Olivares completed her PhD in the University of California Irvine\, where she investigated the effects of global warming on the soil fungal communities of boreal forests in Alaska and consequences for decomposition and the carbon cycle. As a postdoctoral scholar in the University of New Hampshire\, she studied fungal communities in temperate forests in New England experiencing long-term simulated warming and nitrogen pollution and impacts to the cycling of carbon. \nDr. Romero-Olivares is now an Assistant Professor in New Mexico State University. In her lab\, they are interested in understanding how fungi respond and adapt to environmental stress. Their overall research goal is to better understand and plan for ecosystem-scale effects of global climate change. \nHer lab website is here. \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-6/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T192743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T184530Z
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SUMMARY:Examining antibiotic resistance in biofilm and planktonic bacterial communities along an urban river
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mary Coughter\, PhD Candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-5/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240830T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240830T140000
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CREATED:20240129T192425Z
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SUMMARY:The PATHOME Study: Leveraging contrasts in urban socio-economic living conditions and pathogen diversity in humans\, animals\, and the environment to prioritize intervention policy in Kenya
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Kelly K. Baker\, PhD.\, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the State University of New York Buffalo School of Public Health\, and Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity research. She conducts One Health focused eco-epidemiology studies in the US and globally that identify practical intervention strategies that can prevent transmission of enteric viruses\, bacteria\, and parasites between humans\, animals\, and the environment. Her funded research includes the development and testing of rapid diagnostics as well as projects like PATHOME\, which develop virtual laboratories that can model the impact of different global development strategies on enteric disease burden. These transdisciplinary studies use pathogen diversity in children\, animals\, and the environment as means for identifying which living conditions\, alone or in combination\, best contribute to a decline in disease burden in high transmission settings. This evidence can then be used by policy makers and practitioners to select high impact investments. \nHer Faculty page is here. \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-pathome-study-one-health/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T140000
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CREATED:20240129T192544Z
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SUMMARY:What microbes can tell us about the built environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Dr. Davida Smyth\, PhD.\, is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University – San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Ireland\, and completed her postdoctoral training at New York Medical College\, the University of Mississippi Medical Center\, and New York University. She has served as an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Natural Sciences in Mercy College’s School of Health and Natural Sciences\, an Assistant Research Scientist in Richard Novicks lab at NYU Langone Medical Center\, an Adjunct Lecturer for the online Masters in Bioinformatics program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering\, and an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York City College of Technology (NYCCT). She is an external committee member for Mercy Colleges Adjunct Academy component of their Inclusive Excellence Project and Peer-Led Team Learning Program for Biology\, Chemistry\, and Psychology students. In 2019\, she was invited to the steering committee of the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network (REMNet) of CUNY and became a Co-PI in 2020. Her research focuses on epidemiology of microbes in wastewater\, and she is deeply committed to improving STEM education with integrated social impacts\, such as her course on “How the Toilet Changed the World” about the role and impact of sanitation on our society and about the ongoing and future challenges associated with both access to toilets and sustainable toilet design. \n\n\nThis talk will focus on how microbes in our built environment can tell us much about the biological and chemical processes occurring. From their transmission through the air and their accumulation in our wastewater\, we can learn much about the health of our communities\, at different levels of scale and over time. Using novel sampling techniques and next generation sequencing we’re studying the microbes in our classroom air\, those present in the soils around our campus\, and in our city’s wastewater to determine the prevalence of pathogens as well as antibiotic resistance. \nHer lab website is here; they research microbiology\, sustainability\, pedagogy\, and inclusion. \n\n\nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-4/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240628T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240628T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T191646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T140716Z
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SUMMARY:Antimicrobial chemicals\, antimicrobial resistance\, and the indoor microbiome
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Erica Hartmann\, PhD.\, Associate Professor at Northwestern University. Dr. Erica Marie Hartmann is an environmental microbiologist interested in the interaction between anthropogenic chemicals and microorganisms\, as well as bio-inspired mechanisms for controlling microbial communities. \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/antimicrobial-chemicals-antimicrobial-resistance-and-the-indoor-microbiome/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T191343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T140623Z
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SUMMARY:The human microbiome and cancer risk: Opportunities for prospective studies
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Emily Vogtmann is an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics in the National Cancer Institute. She received her B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology and B.A. in Spanish from Michigan State University\, M.P.H. in international health epidemiology from the University of Michigan\, and Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2013 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/the-human-microbiome-and-cancer-risk-opportunities-for-prospective-studies/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T191108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T135023Z
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SUMMARY:“Linking Plant\, Animal\, and Human Health in Livestock Systems: a Metabolomics Approach.”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Stephan Van Vliet\, Phd.\, Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science at Utah State University. Faculty profile here; “Dr. van Vliet’s research is performed at the nexus of agricultural and human health. He routinely collaborates with farmers\, ecologists\, and agricultural scientists to study critical linkages between agricultural production methods\, the nutrient density of food\, and human health.” \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-3/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T190722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T200436Z
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SUMMARY:Don’t Stop Believin’: Managing student motivation on the journey from descriptive to mechanism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Sonny Lee\, PhD.\, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University. His lab website is here; “In our laboratory\, computational biology approaches result in identification of functional potentials in both individual microbial organism and communities.” \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/tbd-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20240129T190411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T141753Z
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SUMMARY:Precision Microbiome for Health
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University\, UK in 2002\, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University\, Canada. From 2005-2010 he was a senior scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory\, UK; and from 2010-2018 he was Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory\, a Professor of Surgery\, and Director of The Microbiome Center at University of Chicago. In 2019 he moved to University of California San Diego\, where he is a Professor in Pediatrics and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Science\, and Director of both the Microbiome and Metagenomics Center and the Microbiome Core Facility. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. \n  \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/precision-microbiome-for-health/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T150000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
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SUMMARY:Microbes and Social Equity virtual Summer Symposium June 5 – 9
DESCRIPTION:The Microbes and Social Equity working group\, and The University of Maine Institute of Medicine will once again host a free-to-attend virtual summer symposium. \nSave the dates: June 5 – 9th\, 2023 \nWe will host one thematic session per day\, from 11 am – 2:45 pm EDT \nSession themes include: \n\nReconsidering ‘One Health’ Through Microbes\nMicrobiomes and climate justice\nIntegrating the food systems through microbes\nElevating human nutrition and microbiome practice\nMSE Member Research Showcase\, featuring the work of our members!\n\nMore details and registration links 
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/microbes-and-social-equity-virtual-summer-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154439Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion on the environment\, microbes\, and us
DESCRIPTION: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 \nAbout 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 environmental microbiomes and our place in ecosystems\, and then will continue talking about soil health. Panel will be hosted by Katherine Daiy\, Kieran O’Doherty\, Mallory Choudoir\, Mustafa Saifuddin\, and Hannah Holland-Moritz. \nPlease note\, this session will only be featured live in real-time and will not be recorded. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/panel-discussion-on-the-environment-microbes-and-us-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155236Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion on the environment\, microbes\, and us
DESCRIPTION: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 \nAbout 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 environmental microbiomes and our place in ecosystems\, and then will continue talking about soil health. Panel will be hosted by Katherine Daiy\, Kieran O’Doherty\, Mallory Choudoir\, Mustafa Saifuddin\, and Hannah Holland-Moritz. \nPlease note\, this session will only be featured live in real-time and will not be recorded. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/panel-discussion-on-the-environment-microbes-and-us/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155226Z
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SUMMARY:“Soil health – towards a ‘microbial agriculture’?“
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Anna Krzywoszynska\, PhD. and Paula Palanco Lopez \nAbout 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 research\, and public participation in science. Her current research interests include human-soil relations and knowledge systems\, the co-production of soil knowledge between science and society\, and the role of local food systems in achieving socio-environmental justice. \nPaula Palanco is a medical anthropologist with a background in Development Studies and Communication. She has completed an Advanced Masters in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies in KULeuven (Belgium) and worked for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)\, the University of Oxford\, and Imperial College London. Paula has carried out research in different topics such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR)\, air monitoring and cholera epidemics. Currently\, she is a PhD candidate in the University of Oulu (Finland)\, researching the connection between the loss of soil biodiversity and AMR. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/soil-health-towards-a-microbial-agriculture/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155207Z
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SUMMARY:“Anthropology\, Microbiomes\, and Antimicrobial Resistance”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Cecil Lewis\, PhD. \nAbout 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 metabolome\, along with progressive community-based partnerships across the Americas and Africa. His work is supported by the NSF and NIH. He is the founder and director of Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research (LMAMR). \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/anthropology-microbiomes-and-antimicrobial-resistance/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155157Z
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SUMMARY:“The human-valued interest in microbiome science is the distillation of human-environmental interactions”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Schnorr\, PhD. \nAbout 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 foods\, and how this is facilitated by both technology and the gut microbiome\, as an auxiliary adaptative mechanisms in human health. I studied also ancient microbiomes from coprolite material\, and microbial mutualisms in arthropod and environmental contexts. Extending from my interest in brain growth and nutrition acquisition traits among humans\, I picked up the inquiry on environmental provisioning of essential lipids from microbiomes. I transitioned to microbial ecology in pursuit of answers to help reconcile the apparent discontinuity between supply and demand of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in terrestrial ecosystems\, driven by prior experience working in human evolutionary theory\, and by present perspectives of ecological networks.” \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/the-human-valued-interest-in-microbiome-science-is-the-distillation-of-human-environmental-interactions/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T202349Z
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SUMMARY:Religion\, Race and the Microbe: Theological Analysis of Public Health Resistance in the Pandemicine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Aminah Al-Attas Bradford\, PhD. \nAbout 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 research investigates the historical entanglement of disease theories\, public health strategy\, Christian thought\, and coloniality to cultivate ecological wisdom\, scientific engagement and the pursuit of environmental justice in religious contexts. She asks questions like\, how have the historical entanglement of epidemiology\, coloniality and Christian teaching contributed to the disease of both body and planet\, the disproportionate effects of which are born by black and brown communities? How has demonizing the microbe paved the way for oppression of those deemed sub-human? And how might microbiome science reform Christian thought that often disrupts engagement of science and is complicit in exploitative and exclusionary ways of being? \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/religion-race-and-the-microbe-theological-analysis-of-public-health-resistance-in-the-pandemicine/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155137Z
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SUMMARY:“Microbiome Research with the Yanomami”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Good\, University of Guelph \nAbout the Speaker: David Good is a PhD student in microbiology at the University of Guelph\, Ontario. His general research goal is characterizing the structural and functional microbial diversity of his Yanomami family\, the Irokae-teri\, located in the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela. They are of great interest in the microbiome field since the Irokae-teri live fully immersed in the rainforest environment and subsist by an active lifestyle of hunting-gathering and small-scale gardening. Furthermore\, their relative isolation deep in the Amazon limits their exposure to microbiome stressors such as antibiotics\, highly refined and processed foods\, industrial toxins and pollutants\, food preservatives\, etc. David will discuss this unique and rare opportunity to advance our understanding of the human microbiome of a community largely unperturbed by westernization\, while building global awareness on the importance of protecting these few remaining isolated indigenous societies. However\, such research brings numerous challenges surrounding bioethics. David hopes to build dialogue around going beyond simple compliance in microbiome research\, and how the Yanomami have the right to self-determination and harness their bioeconomic potential to protect their home. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/microbiome-research-with-the-yanomami/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155112Z
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SUMMARY:“Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Jake Robinson\, PhD. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Robinson is a microbial ecologist based in the UK (soon to be Australia). In 2021\, he received a PhD from the University of Sheffield. He is passionate about researching microbes\, ecosystems\, social equity issues and the connections between them\, and at the same time\, he is keen to develop ways to conserve and restore nature. Invisible Friends is his first book. This book counters the prevailing narrative of microbes as the bane of society\, along the way providing much-needed clarity on the overwhelmingly beneficial role they play. Discover how the microbiome is highly relevant to environmental and social equity issues while there’s also discussion about how microbes may influence our decisions; even the way we think about how we think may need to be revisited. Invisible Friends introduces the reader to a vast\, pullulating cohort of minute life – friends you never knew you had! Jake has worked on several publications with the MSE Working Group founder Dr Sue Ishaq and even interviewed her for the Microbes and Social Equity chapter in Invisible Friends. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/invisible-friends-how-microbes-shape-our-lives-and-the-world-around-us/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155103Z
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion on Gut microbiome\, nutrition\, and food security
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr. Merilee Brockway\, PhD RN IBCLC\, University of Calgary; Dr. Eldin Jašarević\, PhD. Magee-Womens Research Institute\, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; and TBD \nAbout the Seminar: This week\, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 2 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the microbiome in early life. Panel will be hosted by Emily Wissel. \nPlease note\, this session will only be featured live in real-time and will not be recorded. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/panel-discussion-on-gut-microbiome-nutrition-and-food-security-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T154016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T191144Z
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SUMMARY:The vaginal microbiome: key for women’s health & healthy newborns
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lebeer\, PhD. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lebeer is a research professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp\, Belgium. She has studied bioscience engineering\, with a specialisation in cell and gene biotechnology and food & health and obtained her Master’s degree at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2004. In 2008\, she obtained a PhD degree in Bioscience Engineering with a topic on probiotics and inflammatory bowel diseases (KU Leuven). After a postdoc on the interaction between lactobacilli\, viruses and mucosal immunology\, Sarah was offered a tenure track position in applied microbiology and biotechnology at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp in Nov 2011. In 2020\, Sarah obtained an ERC StG Grant (Lacto-Be) that enables her to gain in-depth knowledge of the evolutionary history and ecology of lactobacilli. Within this ERC project\, Sarah has launched the Isala citizen-science project to gain new insights in the ecology and role of vaginal lactobacilli for women’s health\, but also to actively involve women to contribute with ideas on how to improve vaginal health and break some taboos together (https://isala.be/en). This project has won the communication award from the Young Academy and Royal Academy of Science KVAB in 2021. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/mse-2023-speaker-6-title-tbd/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T153952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T172112Z
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SUMMARY:Intersecting breastmilk and microbiome science with the complexity of working with humans in a clinical context
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Merilee Brockway\, PhD RN IBCLC\, University of Calgary \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Merilee Brockway is a PhD prepared nurse and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with expertise in maternal-child health\, infant feeding\, and patient engagement. She completed my PhD in nursing at the University of Calgary\, examining maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and infant feeding outcomes in moderate and late preterm infants. She also completed a three year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Manitoba in Dr. Meghan Azad’s THRIVE Discovery Lab\, exploring clinical applications of donor human milk for preterm infants. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary\, her program of research examines the use of human milk as a clinical intervention to mitigate early life perturbations to the infant microbiome.   \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/personalized-nutrition-and-the-human-gut-microbiome-2/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230131T153941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T155014Z
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SUMMARY:“The maternal microbiota and offspring development: Towards a translational systems approach in maternal-child health.”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Eldin Jašarević\, PhD. Magee-Womens Research Institute\, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine \nAbout the Speaker: Eldin (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics\, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also Primary Investigator at Magee-Womens Research Institute. Eldin received a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Missouri and the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders studying the combined effects of maternal stress and diet on sex-specific brain development in mice. Eldin completed his postdoctoral training in\nthe laboratory of Dr. Tracy Bale at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Maryland School of Medicine. His postdoc work showed that lifetime experiences influence the composition and function of maternal microbiome\, and vertical transmission of these communities is causally linked to poor health outcomes in offspring. Current research interests include mining the human maternal microbiota for novel functions that contribute to offspring development\, and ultimately gaining a better understanding of the ways in which the prenatal environment shapes the postnatal response to the external microbial world. For this work\, Eldin has been selected as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and is the recipient of a National Research Service Award from NIMH\, and a Research Scientist Development Award from NIDDK. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/the-maternal-microbiota-and-offspring-development-towards-a-translational-systems-approach-in-maternal-child-health/
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230119T161216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T161216Z
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion on Gut microbiome\, nutrition\, and food security
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr. Yanyan Li\, PhD; Dr. Dany Fanfan\, Ph.D.\, MSN\, RN; and Dr. Sean Gibbons\, PhD \nAbout the Seminar: This week\, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 1 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the gut microbiome. Panel will be hosted by Dr. Sue Ishaq. \nPlease note\, this session will only be featured live in real-time and will not be recorded. \nLink to page with more info on the speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/panel-discussion-on-gut-microbiome-nutrition-and-food-security/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute of Medicine":MAILTO:umainemed@maine.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T071953
CREATED:20230111T162635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T174125Z
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SUMMARY:Personalized nutrition and the human gut microbiome
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Sean Gibbons\, PhD \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Sean Gibbons is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology\, a non-profit research consortium. His lab develops computational and experimental tools for exploring and manipulating host-microbe systems. \nAdded by Dr. Sue Ishaq: The work from Sean’s group and collaborators has been reshaping the way that host microbial researchers approach their work\, by revealing trends through large metanalyses and novel perspectives on using data. Their most recent work has evaluated host-microbial interactions\, metabolites\, and health. \nFor the last three years\, Sean’s lab has hosted the ISB Virtual Microbiome Series\, which is freely available and attracts several thousand participants. The series includes a two day workshop that teaches data analysis skills\, and a day-long symposium featuring discussions of current discoveries and conceptualizes the future of microbiome research. \nFinally\, Sean and his research group have been making science a more welcoming and inclusive place. \nRead more about the MSE series and speakers. \nRegister for this session
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/personalized-nutrition-and-the-human-gut-microbiome/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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