PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series- Dr. Amy Mathers, University of Virginia
2025-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to the first installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on January 16th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom:
Dr. Amy J. Mathers from the Medicine Division (Infectious Diseases) at the University of Virginia will be presenting a seminar entitled “Down the Drain: Uncovering Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Plumbing”.
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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Student Leadership Council Journal Club
2025-01-23 12:00 - 13:00
Please see individual SLC Member invites from Dr. Megan Lott regarding topics for discussion at each meeting

PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series- Dr. Ameet Pinto, Georgia Institute of Technology
2025-01-28 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to the second installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on January 28th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom (note this is a Tuesday seminar, not our normal Thursday slot):
Dr. Ameet Pinto
Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
From Pathogen-centric to Microbiome-Inclusive Approaches to Enhance Water Safety
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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Student Leadership Council Journal Club
2025-02-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-01 12:00 - 13:00
Please see individual SLC Member invites from Dr. Megan Lott regarding topics for discussion at each meeting. SLC Journal Club meetings are for SLC Members and conducted by SLC Members.

PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series Dr. Whitney Austin Gray, IWBI
2025-02-13 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to another installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on February 13th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom:
Dr. Whitney Austin Gray from the International WELL Building Institute: Translating Research to Practice: The WELL Building Standard
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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Student Leadership Council Journal Club
2025-02-20 12:00 - 13:00
Please see individual SLC Member invites from Dr. Megan Lott regarding topics for discussion at each meeting.

PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series- Intellectual Property and Invention Disclosure
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to another installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on February 27th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom:
A panel of experts will be discussing Intellectual Property and Invention Disclosure:
Developing cutting-edge technologies and effectively transitioning them into society are key success metrics for PreMiEr. A critical component of this process is understanding intellectual property (IP) and the invention disclosure process. Properly handling IP ensures that innovations emerging from our research community are protected, commercialized, and leveraged for societal impact. This seminar aims to equip faculty, researchers, and graduate students with foundational knowledge about IP, its protection, and best practices for invention disclosure. We hope it will provide valuable insights and practical guidance on how researchers can successfully navigate the IP landscape and contribute to the commercialization of their innovations. We look forward to an engaging and informative discussion!
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series- Dr. Kieran O'Doherty, University of Guelph
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to another installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on March 27th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom:
Dr. Kieran O’Doherty from the University of Guelph Applied Social Psychology department will be presenting: Microbiome Stewardship as a Conceptual Foundation for Policies
Human microbiomes, to a large degree, are shaped by the environments in which we live. We rely on microbial exposures from other people, animals, and plants. Our microbiomes are also shaped by the consequences of human activities like pesticide use, air and water pollution, the condition of our soils, and widespread use of antibiotics. In modern industrialized societies, the environment in which we live for much of our life is a built environment. This means that a very large proportion of the features of the environments in which we live are the result of human decisions. In theory, it makes sense to be strategic about such decisions, such that our built environments support human health and mental health, including considerations of their effects on microbiomes. In practice, there are many challenges to realizing ideals of making society level decisions that lead to healthy microbiomes. First, decisions about our collective built environments are distributed across actors and stakeholders, and so it is difficult to pinpoint exact political entry points where policies to ensure healthy microbiomes could be advanced. Second, awareness of the importance of fostering healthy microbiomes through considered crafting of built environments is low. Thus, what is needed is a conceptual foundation that would support the strategic development of built environments that foster healthy microbiomes. The notion of microbiome stewardship offers to be such a foundation. In this presentation, Dr. O’Doherty will introduce the concept of microbiome stewardship and explain a pathway for elaborating the idea, and how it might be useful in guiding policy across diverse domains
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series- Dr. Colin Worby, Broad Institute
2025-04-10 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) invites you to another installment of the PreMiEr Spring 2025 Seminar Series on April 10th from Noon to 1pm on Zoom:
Dr. Colin Worby, Computational Scientist from the Broad Institute: Challenges and opportunities in bacterial genomic epidemiology
Infectious disease dynamics can be better understood using pathogen genomic epidemiology, allowing insights into transmission routes and pathogen reservoirs. This field has risen to prominence in recent years due to falling sequencing costs and improved methodology, as well as the urgent need for epidemiological insights during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, bacterial studies are considerably underrepresented in the field relative to viral studies, due in part to greater sequencing costs, genome complexity, and common asymptomatic, long-term carriage. In this talk, Dr. Worby will discuss many of the challenges associated with inferring transmission dynamics from bacterial sequence data, and outline strategies to tackle some particularly challenging scenarios, including within-host pathogen diversity, long-term endemic circulation and plasmid-mediated dissemination of drug-resistance. Dr. Worby will also highlight new efforts to characterize bacterial strain sharing using complex samples, including strain mixes and metagenomes.
This series is open to the public, but non-PreMiEr members must register to receive the Zoom link. You need register only once for the entire series.
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Mentorship in Undergraduate Research training - CHANGED TO VIRTUAL ON MAY 9th
2025-05-08 14:00 - 17:00
Please save the date for the upcoming professional development training “Mentorship in Undergraduate Research”
Join us for an interactive training designed for faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and staff interested in mentoring undergraduate students in research. This session will provide practical strategies for effective mentorship, fostering student engagement, and supporting academic and professional growth.
The training will be conducted by Dr. Sandra Clinton, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences at UNC-Charlotte. Dr. Clinton also serves as the Outreach Lead for PreMiEr.
The two in-person trainings originally scheduled have now moved to a virtual format on May 9th 10-11:30 am via Zoom. Please RSVP here.
This training is open to all PreMiEr affiliates with any level of mentorship experience. This training is expected of graduate students and post-docs who are working with PreMiEr REU students this summer
For programmatic questions, please contact Dr. Clinton (sandra.clinton@charlotte.edu) or for any other questions, premier_erc@duke.edu.

Mentorship in Undergraduate Research training NOW VIRTUAL
2025-05-09 09:00 - 12:00

PreMiEr event Societal and Ethical Implications (SEI) Day at NC State University
2025-05-13 08:00 - 17:00
Please register and add to your calendars the PreMiEr Societal and Ethical Implications Core webinar on “Societal Dimensions of Built Environment Microbiome Engineering”

Workshop details: https://go.ncsu.edu/premier-sei-workshop-2025
Zoom registration: https://go.ncsu.edu/mobe-zoom
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2025, from 1:00 PM–4:30 PM
Cost: Free, all are welcome to attend

The workshop will bring together researchers, engineers, ethicists, and policymakers to examine the societal and ethical dimensions of microbiome engineering in the built environment. Through keynote talks, discussions, and interactive sessions, participants will explore governance frameworks, public perceptions,and strategies for meaningful community engagement. Click here to see the speakers and agenda.

Girl Scouts STEM Day @ Duke
2025-05-17
Durham, NC
Lots of PreMiEr participants needed to help kids with hands-on STEM activities and for event management.
Contact Holly Leddy if interested in volunteering.

North Carolina A&T State University Symposia
2025-06-12 - 2025-06-13
Please mark your calendars for the GRADS-4C Second Annual 2-Day Symposia June 12-13, 2025 9am-5 pm at the N.C. A&T State University Alumni Center (200 N. Benbow Rd. Greensboro, NC 27411): Topics include Cloud Computing/ Education in Data/ Science, Genomics, and Health. Details can be found here

Pacific Biosciences Workshop July 8-9, 2025 Wilkinson Building, Duke University
2025-07-08 09:00 - 2025-07-09 17:00
PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES WORKSHOP | The next workshop offering from PacBio regarding HiFi long-read sequencing will be July 8th/9th in the Wilkinson Building Teaching Lab at Duke. Registration is required and limited to twelve registrants, so we ask that you register as soon as possible if interested. Information about the workshop can be found here

PreMiEr SLC Monthly Meeting
2025-08-22 15:00 - 16:00
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PreMiEr Fall 2025 Seminar Series- Dr. Stephen Fiore
2025-08-28 12:00 - 13:00
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) will host a Fall 2025 Seminar Series and invites all faculty, staff, and affiliates of PreMiEr to join for any or all seminars that confirm to your schedule. Speakers have been finalized and are listed below. All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 12-1 pm EST (with the exception of Dr. Linden who is also hosted by the Civil and Environmental Engineering department with a Monday presentation).
A registration link is provided below that will give access to a recurring Zoom link for all seminars.
Registration link here
We hope to see you at these lunch sessions!
August 28th Dr. Stephen Fiore, Professor, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida
September 11th Dr. Olivia Ginn, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia
September 25th Dr. Bridget Hegarty, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
October 9th Dr. Sarah Haines, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto
October 27th (Monday) Dr. Karl Linden, Department Chair, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder- in person and via Zoom
November 13th Dr. Hannah Healy, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Science, Harvard University

FW: PreMiEr SLC Journal Club
2025-09-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
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When: Occurs every 2 week(s) on Thursday effective 9/4/2025 until 11/6/2025 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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The PreMiEr SLC Journal Club will meet this fall on the following dates:
September 4
September 18
October 2
October 16
November 6
This semester, we’ll be discussing journal articles authored by our Seminar Speakers in advance of their presentations. Articles will be shared at least one week before each Journal Club session. Stay tuned for the list of titles and session leaders!

PreMiEr Fall 2025 Seminar Series, Dr. Olivia Gunn
2025-09-11 12:00 - 13:00

PreMiEr SLC Monthly Meeting
2025-09-19 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-17 15:00 - 16:00
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PreMiEr Fall 2025 Seminar Series, Dr. Bridget Hegarty
2025-09-25 12:00 - 13:00

PreMiEr Fall 2025 Seminar Series, Dr. Sarah Haines
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:00

PreMiEr Strategic Plan
2025-10-21 12:30 - 14:00

PreMiEr Fall 2025 Seminar Series Dr. Karl Linden in person and via Zoom
2025-10-27 12:00 - 13:00
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