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.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Speakers: Drs. Cynthia Gibas, Professor, and Jessica Schlueter, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics Adventures in Wastewater Monitoring Wastewater surveillance has become an established part of US public health infrastructure via the National Wastewater Surveillance System and its network of collection sites in all 50 […]

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, November 28th, we will discuss Chapter 11 & Conclusions.

PreMiEr Members are invited to join Innovation Ecosystem director Dr. Ibrahim Mohedas and the Christensen Family Center for Innovation at Duke University for the final presentation of the participants of the inaugural CFCI/PreMiEr Accelerator Workshop. Five teams of scholars and faculty mentors have been working to develop an idea into a product and this event […]

All students, post-docs, and research staff affiliated with PreMiEr are invited and encouraged to join the next meeting of the ERC's Scholars Leadership Council.  Please check your email for an invitation from Chair, Jorden Rabasco, for the link.

Please join the NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) and host institution Duke University for a talk from Drs. Connie Syharat, Arash Zaghi, and Marisa Chrysochoou of the University of Connecticut. Reframing Neurodiversity in Higher Education A growing body of literature suggests that neurodiverse learners may possess assets that are highly desirable […]

All PreMiEr scholars (undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and research staff) are invited and encouraged to join the next meeting of the SLC. Please check your email from an invitation from the SLC Chair, Jorden Rabasco, for the Zoom link.

PreMiEr scholars actively involved in research share their data, findings, and problems with other members of PreMiEr.

Please join the NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr) for a seminar by Dr. Nathan Crook of North Carolina State University. Accelerated Engineering of Nonmodel Microbes Microbial communities are present in a diverse range of important habitats, including the built environment, the human gut, and the plant root.  In these environments, microbial […]