• Fishing for Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Health in Zebrafish

    Virtual

    Speaker: Clarissa Henry, Ph.D. Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, Director, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering 91福利 the Speaker: The goal of my research program is to understand how dynamic interactions between cells and their extracellular matrix mediate morphogenesis, and how disruption of cell-matrix interactions leads to disease states. Aberrant cell-matrix interactions cause […]

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  • Medical Rounds in the Museum: Representation of Science and Medicine in Paintings

    Virtual

    Intermedia Programs and the Institute of Medicine invite you to a virtual Arts and Humanities in Medicine lecture. Speaker: Dr. Hermann Haller, President of MDI Biological Laboratory Title: Medical Rounds in the Museum: Representation of Science and Medicine in Paintings Contact: For event link, please email Augusta Sparks Farnum:聽augusta.farnum@maine.edu

  • The Epidemic of Elder Isolation and Loneliness Accompanying COVID-19

    Virtual

    Speakers: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Director, 91福利 Center on Aging, Professor, 91福利 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 91福利 the Seminar: This seminar will consider the unprecedented negative impacts that COVID-19 has had on older […]

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  • Super-Resolution Microscopy: Illuminating Mechanisms of Virus Infection and Host Cell Function

    Virtual

    Speaker: Sam Hess, Ph.D. Professor of Physics / Cooperating Professor of Chemistry, University of Maine 91福利 the seminar:聽 Super-resolution microscopy has enabled entirely new approaches to understanding biological systems, and was recognized in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We use FPALM (S.T. Hess et al. Biophysical Journal, 2006) to explore the mechanisms of influenza […]

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  • Air Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy and Maternal/Child Health

    Virtual

    Speaker: Abby Fleisch, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine Attending Physician, Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Maine Medical Center Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute 91福利 the Seminar: During this seminar, Dr. Fleisch will describe her research examining the health impact of prenatal exposure to air […]

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  • Amyloid 尾-Peptide and Brain Oxidative Damage: Focus on the Intersection of the Lipid Peroxidation Product Hne, Glucose Dysmetabolism, and Alzheimer Disease

    Buchanan Alumni House Two Alumni Place, 91福利

    In person event at Buchanan Alumni House Two Alumni Place, 91福利 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 91福利 the seminar: Alzheimer disease […]

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

    Virtual

    Speakers: Tora Johnson, PhD,聽 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, 91福利 PhD Student   91福利 the seminar: Downeast Maine is a hub for collaborative community partnerships and community-engaged research […]

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  • Redesigning Higher Education through Co鈥恈reation and Partnership

    Soderberg Lecture Hall TBD

    Speaker: Aileen Huang鈥怱aad, PhD, MBA聽Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs,聽Department of Bioengineering The Roux Institute, Northeastern University 91福利 the lecture: Today, higher education is facing significant challenges as it tries to prepare its聽graduates for post graduate opportunities. Additionally, technology development聽is evolving at a record pace across disciplines; students are faced with an over鈥恮helming number […]

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  • Pathways to Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in Rural Maine

    Buchanan Alumni House Two Alumni Place, 91福利

    The 91福利 Institute of Medicine announces the First Annual Distinguished Mental Health Lecture: Speaker:聽Jeffrey E. Hecker, Ph.D.聽Professor and Director of Clinical Training 91福利 the lecture: This lecture briefly reviews the evidence supporting the efficacy of early, multifaceted intervention for individuals with psychotic spectrum disorders including the relationship between the duration of untreated psychosis and clinical […]

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

    Virtual

    Speaker:聽Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD, CCC-SLP聽Assistant Professor- Communication Sciences & Disorders 91福利 the seminar:聽Children from birth to 18 years old are of the highest risk age groups聽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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