The Institute of Medicine Seminar Series resumed in Spring 2024. Recordings are available below.
Seminar offerings from our partners
UMS Research & Innovation Speaker Series
Please sign-up for future talks through this .
ORD Professional Development Workshop Series
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BioME
Sixth Annual BioME Student Showcase
April 27, 2024 at USM’s McGoldrick Center in Portland.
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Innovation Brewing Ideas Coffee Corner
1st Tuesday of each month from 8:30 – 9:30am via Teams. Please join us using the link below. We look forward to connecting with you.
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Science Cafes, courses and conferences offered on the MDIBL campus and online.
51st Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS)
April 26 – 27, 2024
MDI Science Café Online
May 13, 2024 at 5 PM
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Courses and workshops, Online MicroLessons and MiniCourses.
Location: Hybrid – The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME, & Virtual
JUL 22 AUG 02, 2024
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UNE RCR Seminar Series
Research Learning Experience
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MAND Spring Conference
Embracing Change: The Future of Dietetics
April 26, 2024 at the Atlantic Oceanside in Bar Harbor, Maine
Interested in other seminars?Ìý Check out these offerings from other °µÍø¸£Àûapp departments:
UMS Research and Innovation Speaker Series
ORD Professional Development Workshop Series
This new workshop series will focus on specific funding opportunities, grant/project management strategies, research collaboration and system resources, mentoring, and much more.
Previous Seminars Recordings
Topic: Cultural Competence in Nursing
Speaker: Speaker: Colleen Marzilli, Ph.D., DNP, MBA
The recording of the seminar is available
Topic: Panic: The Untold Truths
Speaker: Kelly R. Klein, MD, MPH, FACEP
The recording of the seminar is available
Microbes and Social Equity Speaker Series 2023
This event took place in Summer 2023.Ìý Recordings are available on the ÌýLOVE YOUR MICROBES blog
Do some over-the-counter antimicrobials do more harm than good? The unexpected cellular and mitochondrial toxicity of triclosan and cetylpyridinium chloride
February 24, 2023
Speaker: Julie Gosse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry, °µÍø¸£Àûapp
The recording of the seminar is available
Aileen Huang-Saad, Ph.D., M.B.A, James A. Coffman, Ph.D., and Billie Cary “Building Maine’s Life Sciences Work Force” ()
Cliff Rosen, M.D., Research Opportunities for Maine ()
The Prophages of Pathogenic Mycobacteria and Their Role in Intrinsic Drug Resistance
November 4 2022
Speaker:Ìý Sally D. Molloy, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Genomics, The °µÍø¸£Àûapp Honors College, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
The recording of the seminar is available
Vitamin D Supplementation: Where’s the Evidence?
October 28, 2022
Speaker: Clifford J. Rosen, MD, Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine, Principal Investigator of the NNE-CTR.
The recording of the seminar is available
Childhood Brain Injury: Perspectives from Speech-Language Pathology on Serving Children with Mild to Severe Injuries
October 21, 2022
Speaker: Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD, CCC-SLP Assistant Professor- Communication Sciences & Disorders
The recording of the seminar is available
First Annual Mental Health Lecture
Pathways to Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in Rural Maine
October 18, 2022
Speaker: Jeffrey E. Hecker, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Clinical Training, °µÍø¸£Àûapp
The recording of the seminar is available
Building Community-University Partnerships for Health Equity in Downeast Maine
September 16, 2022
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù²õ:Ìý Tora Johnson, PhD, Director, Geographic Information Systems Service Center, Associate Professor of GIS °µÍø¸£Àûapp Machias
Katherine Weatherford Darling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Social Science Program, °µÍø¸£Àûapp, Augusta
Oliver Gray Jones, UMaine PhD Student
The recording of the seminar is available
Amyloid β-Peptide and Brain Oxidative Damage: Focus on the Intersection of the Lipid Peroxidation Product Hne, Glucose Dysmetabolism, and Alzheimer Disease
September 6, 2022 – First Annual Distinguished Science Lecture
Speaker: D. Allan Butterfield, Ph.D.
The UK Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Biological Chemistry;
Associate Vice President for Research for Centers and Institutes and UK Research Priority Areas;
Fellow, Society for Redox Biology and Medicine
University of Kentucky
The recording of the seminar is available
The Epidemic of Elder Isolation and Loneliness Accompanying COVID
February 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Speakers: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Director, UMaine Center on Aging, Professor, UMaine School of Social Work
Clifford Milo Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF, Chief of Geriatric Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry at Acadia Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center
The recording of the seminar is available
Community Engagement to Enhance Research in Maine
October 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Speaker: Elizabeth Jacobs, MD MPP, Vice President for ResearchÌý MaineHealth
The recording of the seminar is available
Identifying tissue-specific nutrient-sensing effects on growth, health, and longevity in C. elegans
October 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:ÌýAric Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MDIBL
The recording of the seminar is available
Veterinary Forensic Pathology and One Health
October 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:ÌýNanny Wenzlow, DVM, Ph.D., MRCVS, Dipl. ACVP
The recording of the seminar is available
Content warning. Some of the images in the recording above are graphic
A new dawn for chronic kidney disease – SGLT-2 inhibition as a novel strategy
September 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Speaker: Hermann Haller, MD, President, MDIBL
The recording of the seminar is available
Bioethics in Fertility Treatment: A discussion of cryopreservation tank use and regulation
April 23 @ 3:00 pmÌý–Ìý4:00 pm
Speaker: Rebecca Feinberg, JD, MBe, MS, Teaching Associate Professor, DePaul University
No recording available, contact information for the speaker on this faculty page:) Ìý
Pathways to commercialization of medical products or devices
April 16, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: Michael Mason, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, °µÍø¸£Àûapp.
Skin In-Growth to 3D Printed Metals
March 26, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker:ÌýIan D. Dickey, MD, FRCSC Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Dept. of Orthopaedics
In vivo physiology of kidney development detected with genetically encoded biosensors
Speaker: Iain Drummond,Ìý Ph.D. Professor and Director, Davis Center for Aging and Regeneration. MDI Biological Laboratory.
The recording of the seminar is available
A novel role of wild blueberry phenolic extracts to promote endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis associated with wound healing and tissue regeneration
November 13. 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:Ìý Dorothy Klimis, Ph.D. FACN, Professor of Clinical Nutrition, School of Food and Agriculture and cooperating professor of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the °µÍø¸£Àûapp.
The recording of the seminar is available
A crash course in the gut microbiome
November 6, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: Suzanne (Sue) Ishaq, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
The recording of the seminar is availableÌý.
Water pollution, rising temperatures and a mysterious kidney disease
October 30, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: ÌýNishad Jayasundara, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Environmental Physiology and Toxicology Lab, School of Marine Sciences & Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering
The recording of the seminar is available .
The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical from the Engineering Perspective
October 23, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:ÌýÌýSomayehÌýKhosroazad, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The recording of the seminar is availableÌý.
Ecological and social drivers of the spread of vector-borne diseases
October 16, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: Allison (Allie) Gardner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and a cooperating faculty member in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences program.
The recording of the seminar is available .
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Microbe and Social Equity Speaker Series
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET.ÌýPresented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by:ÌýSue Ishaq, MSE, and the °µÍø¸£Àûapp Institute of Medicine.