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SUMMARY:The human microbiome and cancer risk: setting the stage for innovative studies to address cancer disparities - Dr. Byrd
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Doratha Byrd\, MPH\, PhD \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Byrd received a B.S. in biology and an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Florida. She completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Emory University\, where her dissertation research focused on the development and validation of novel\, inflammation biomarker panel-weighted dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores\, and their associations with colorectal neoplasms. In January 2019\, she joined the National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics as a postdoctoral fellow. During her time there\, she conducted methodologic microbiota studies and investigated associations of the microbiota with cancer risk and of diet with the gut metabolome. In January 2021\, she joined Moffitt Cancer Center as an Assistant Member in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology\, where she will continue to contribute to the reduction of cancer disparities using an integrative\, interdisciplinary approach to study microbiota-mediated mechanisms for cancer risk among diverse populations. \nTwitter: @d_armen_byrd \nAbout the seminar: This seminar will focus on current understanding and future directions for targeting health disparities with gastrointestinal microbiota research using a multidimensional framework. Examples will be provided from the colorectal and breast cancer literature. \nThe event is free but registration is required on the registration link.
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/the-human-microbiome-and-cancer-risk-setting-the-stage-for-innovative-studies-to-address-cancer-disparities-dr-byrd/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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SUMMARY:Extended Health - Dr. Gus Skorburg
DESCRIPTION:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series\, spring 2021 \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Academic Co-Director of the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI)\, and Faculty Affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario\, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his PhD in Philosophy in 2017 from the University of Oregon. His research spans topics in applied ethics and moral psychology. \nhttps://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/people/joshua-august-gus-skorburg \nAbout the seminar: Dominant views about the nature of health and disease tend to assume the existence of a fixed\, stable\, individual organism as the bearer of health and disease states\, and as such\, the appropriate target of medical therapy and ethical concern. However\, recent developments in microbial biology\, neuroscience\, and social and personality psychology have produced a novel understanding of the individual and its fluid boundaries. Drawing on converging evidence from these disciplines\, I will argue that certain features of our biological and social environment can be so tightly integrated as to constitute a unit of care extending beyond the intuitive boundaries of skin and skull. Call this the Hypothesis of Extended Health (HEH). Using the example of obesity as a case study\, I show how HEH is well positioned to accommodate recent research on both the human microbiome and relationship partners. I conclude by suggesting that HEH helps us to break free from unhelpful dichotomous thinking about obesity – between individual behaviours (e.g.\, restraint\, diet\, exercise) or constraining socio-economic structures (e.g.\, food deserts\, advertising). \nThe event is free but registration is required on the registration link.
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/extended-health-dr-gus-skorburg/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Microbes and Social Equity speaker series
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SUMMARY:An Indigenous Micro - to Meta-Narrative: Microbes and Social Equity - Dr. Nicole Redvers
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker: Dr. Nicole Redvers\, ND\, MPH\, is a member of the Deninu K’ue (pronounced “Deneh-noo-kweh”) First Nation tribe from northern Canada and is currently an assistant professor in the department of family & community medicine at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She is co-founder and chair of the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation based in the Canadian North which was awarded the $1 million-dollar 2017 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their work with the homeless and those most vulnerable. Dr. Redvers has been actively involved at the international level promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in planetary health\, and has numerous publications including the trade paperback book titled\, ‘The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles’. \n\nAbout the seminar: Indigenous Peoples have scientific narratives and traditions that span thousands of years rooted within concepts of relationship. The microbial microcosm itself is a lens of relationship that situates us as humans within our own communities and in the biome of the planet. How these relationships intersect and how we view them as an evolution of knowledge in theory and practice impacts how we view equity and its applications in the scientific process. This seminar will seek to bridge Indigenous knowledge traditions and scientific discourse with the intent of situating microbes and social equity within a larger relationship within research and practice. \nTo register for this event\, go to the registration link. \n  \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/medicine/event/microbes-and-social-equity-speaker-series-dr-nicole-redvers/
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