A meeting of the PreMiEr Scholars Leadership Council. All students, post-docs, and research staff associated with PreMiEr are invited to attend.  Please check your email for the Zoom link.

UNC Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Joe Brown leads a discussion of the paper "Reporting individual results for biomonitoring and environmental exposures: lessons learned from environmental communication case studies". Open to PreMiEr faculty and scholars.  Contact Sharon Stauffer to for a calendar invitation, or just show up!  Please see your emails or newsletter for the zoom […]

Dr. Joseph Graves Jr., PreMiEr Associate Director at N.C. A&T,  leads a discussion on the topic of Race as a "ghost" variable in microbiome research. The publication to be discussed will be Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research. Additional reading: The Misguided History of Racial Medicine. Open to PreMiEr faculty and […]

The next meeting of the PreMiEr SLC will be on Friday, the 24th of March, at 4pm, by zoom (please check your email or the weekly newsletter for the link). These meetings are not strictly required (except for leaders), but attending is highly encouraged for all members.

Introductory session for PreMiEr scholars (undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and lab managers) to learn how to use discord for intra-ERC communications. See your emails from SLC Chair Ivory Blakley for Zoom link.

Scholars are invited to a virtual training session with Dr. Eric Monson, Data Visualization Analyst from Duke University Libraries, to learn best practices for the creation of posters, figures, and the presentation of data. This experience is Part 1 of 2, the second of which will offer critiques of posters to be presented at the […]

Topic: Race as a "ghost" variable in microbiome research - continued Facilitator:  Andrew Hardwick, Graduate Student Research Assistant for PreMiEr SEI Core.  In addition, Andrew is a PhD student in Public Administration, a Research Assistant at the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State and a Fellow in Cohort 2 of the AgBioFEWS graduate training program. Summary: In […]

Meeting for scholars associated with PreMiEr, including undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and lab managers. ERC-funded scholars and SLC leadership are required to attend. Other PreMiEr-associated scholars are welcome to attend. Please see your email invitation from the SLC Chair, Ivory Blakley, for the Zoom link.

Please join us on April 27, 12-1 PM on zoom for a conversation on the new AAAS documentary entitled “Science as Mastery: A Story about Race and Power”. The documentary has a duration of ~30 minutes so we will watch the documentary together and then Joe and Karis will lead a discussion in the remaining […]

Join a discussion led by Dr. Anthony Fodor, Lead of the Data Analytics Core, concerning reducing contaminants in sequence libraries.  Dr. Fodor will talk about two recent publications: Contamination source modeling with SCRuB improves cancer phenotype prediction from microbiome data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01696-w Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30497919/ This is an […]

Share your posters for the NSF site visit with peers and get feedback! Check your emails or newsletter for the Zoom link.

Share your posters for the NSF site visit with Visual Design specialist Dr. Eric Monson and get feedback! Check your emails or newsletter for the Zoom link.