• AI for Secure IoT Design

    Virtual

    Moderated by: Dr. Ali Abedi, UMaine Associate Vice President for Research and AI Steering Committee Chair Speaker: Prabuddha Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine About the Speaker: Prabuddha Chakraborty’s research interest lies in the intersecting areas of Artificial Intelligence, Internet-of-Things, and system security. He received his PhD in […]

  • Personalized nutrition and the human gut microbiome

    Virtual

    Speaker: Dr. Sean Gibbons, PhD About 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 […]

    Free
  • Exploring Health Determinants, Gut Microbiome, and Health Outcomes in Immigrants”

    Virtual

    Speaker: Dr. Dany Fanfan, Ph.D., MSN, RN About the Speaker: Dr. Dany Fanfan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida (UF) College of Nursing. Before becoming a faculty, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at Florida International University, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Nursing at the University of South Florida, and a post-doctoral […]

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  • Broccoli Sprout Bioactives and Gut Microbiota: A Dietary Approach for Prevention and Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Virtual

    Speaker: Dr. Yanyan Li, PhD About the Speaker: Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine. She received her PhD degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Ohio State University. She has been dedicating herself to studying the mechanisms of diet-derived bioactives in protecting against disease process and harnessing the gained knowledge to develop […]

    Free
  • Vitamin D Supplementation: Where’s the Evidence?

    Virtual

    Speaker: Clifford J. Rosen, MD, Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine, Principal Investigator of the NNE-CTR. About the seminar:  Vitamin D supplementation is the most commonly administered treatment in clinical practice in the US and vitamin D measurement  testing is rampant. I will discuss the physiology of Vitamin D, the rationale for treatment, […]

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  • Childhood Brain Injury: Perspectives from Speech-Language Pathology on Serving Children with Mild to Severe Injuries

    Virtual

    Speaker: Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD, CCC-SLP Assistant Professor- Communication Sciences & Disorders About the seminar: Children from birth to 18 years old are of the highest risk age groups to experience a brain injury, with over 2.8 million children having experienced a brain injury in the United States. Despite a broad understanding of the chronic and complex nature of […]

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  • Building Community-University Partnerships for Health Equity in Downeast Maine

    Virtual

    Speakers: Tora Johnson, PhD,  Director, Geographic Information Systems Service Center, Associate Professor of GIS University of Maine Machias Katherine Weatherford Darling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Social Science Program, University of Maine, Augusta Oliver Gray Jones, UMaine PhD Student   About the seminar: Downeast Maine is a hub for collaborative community partnerships and community-engaged research […]

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  • 2022 Microbes and Social Equity summer symposium

    Virtual

    The symposium will be held over zoom on July 18 – 22, 2022, 12:30 – 16:00 EST. Registration is free, and anyone is welcome. The details of the program can be […]

    Free
  • It’s about time: ecological and eco-evolutionary dynamics across the scales

    Virtual

    Speaker: Dr. Liat Shenhav, PhD About the Speaker:   Dr. Liat Shenhav is an independent research fellow at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at the Rockefeller University. Prior to that, Liat received a B.Sc. and. M.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los […]

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