Please join us through the Zoom link provided in emails and the PreMiEr Newsletter for the final poster presentations of our inaugural class of REU participants!

SLC leadership invites all scholars associated with PreMiEr to attend a meeting to discuss issues related to students, post-docs, and research staff, and to learn about opportunities and initiatives within the center. Please check your emails for the Zoom meeting link

Fall DEI Book Club: Racism, Not Race, by Joseph Graves, Jr. On Tuesday, September 5th, we will discuss the Introduction through Chapter 2.

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Speaker: Misty Thomas, Associate Professor of Biology Click here to register!  

PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaker: Jill Stewart, Philip C. Singer Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar Abstract: Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the Built Environment Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing threat to public health and modern medicine. Clinical cases of antimicrobial resistance are on the […]

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.