Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, September 19th, we will discuss Chapters 3 & 4.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by Duke University. Speaker: Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Click here to register!

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by North Carolina State University. Speaker: Benjamin Callahan, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Topic: Microbiome or not? Measuring low biomass environments in placentas, feline bile, and cancer. Click here to register!

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, October 3rd, we will discuss Chapters 5 & 6.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Speaker: Anthony Fodor, Professor, College of Computing & Informatics, PreMiEr Associate Director Adventures with the Poisson distribution: on simplicity and reproducibility in microbial analyses Abstract In this talk, we explore ways in which simple algorithms can sometimes outperform more complex ones in metagenomics pipelines.  We […]

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by North Carolina North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Speaker: Dongyang (Sunny) Deng, Associate Professor, College of Science and Technology Assessment of Health and Safety Hazards in African American Low-Income Communities of Greensboro The research project, based in low-income areas of Greensboro, presents a detailed protocol aimed at understanding the correlation […]

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, October 17th, we will discuss Chapters 7 & 8.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaker: Alex McCumber, Postdoctoral Research Associate Abstract: Evaluation of Sink Bioaerosols Sinks are ubiquitous in modern buildings and serve an important role in reducing the transmission of diseases via hand washing. In settings where someone may encounter at risk individuals, such as hospitals, sinks […]

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, October 31st, we will discuss Chapters 9 & 10.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by Duke University. Speaker: Nicole Rockey, Assistant Professor, Pratt School of Engineering Virus persistence and treatment – implications for infectious disease transmission in the built environment Infectious diseases from emerging and endemic pathogens continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recent global changes, including urbanization, climate change, and population growth, have […]

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by North Carolina State University. Speaker: Andrew Hardwick, Graduate Student and PreMiEr Scholar Ghosts in The Built Environment - Evaluating the Use of Socially Defined Variables in Microbiome Research Halloween may have passed, but ghosts still linger. Ghost variables are cases where socially defined variables like race and sex/gender are improperly used […]

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, November 14th, we will discuss Chapter 11 & Conclusions.