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 […]

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.”   Link to page with more info on the speakers. Register for this session

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, […]

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. Save the dates: June 5 – 9th, 2023 We will host one thematic session per day, from 11 am – 2:45 pm EDT Session themes include: Reconsidering ‘One Health’ Through Microbes Microbiomes […]