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SUMMARY:PreMiEr Seminar Series: Dr. Nicole Rockey
DESCRIPTION:PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by Duke University. \nSpeaker: Nicole Rockey\, Assistant Professor\, Pratt School of Engineering \nVirus persistence and treatment – implications for infectious disease transmission in the built environment \nInfectious 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 altered the infectious disease landscape. These changes increase disease spread and risk of viral emergence. My research seeks to better understand risks from viral pathogens and identify effective strategies to limit their spread in the built environment. In this talk\, I will discuss work investigating alternative molecular and predictive modeling approaches for estimating virus fate through disinfection and developing virus monitoring strategies in water treatment settings. I will also highlight research employing animal models to assess influenza virus transmission and controlled bench-scale approaches to study the persistence and spread of respiratory viruses. This work ultimately assesses the impact of engineering interventions (e.g.\, ventilation) on influenza virus transmission in close-contact scenarios. Overarching aims of our work are focused on establishing transmission risks in the built environment and informing engineering interventions that will aid in building robust\, sustainable responses to microbial threats. \nClick here to register!
URL:https://premier-microbiome.org/event/1797/
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SUMMARY:PreMiEr Seminar Series: Andrew Hardwick
DESCRIPTION:PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by North Carolina State University. \nSpeaker: Andrew Hardwick\, Graduate Student and PreMiEr Scholar \nGhosts in The Built Environment – Evaluating the Use of Socially Defined Variables in Microbiome Research \nHalloween may have passed\, but ghosts still linger. Ghost variables are cases where socially defined variables like race and sex/gender are improperly used to study and create narratives about socially defined groups. The narratives people use matter with stories having the power to shape the development of future healthcare policy and scientific funding. This research project evaluates the use of different socially defined variables correctly and incorrectly in the context of the built environment to map out their prevalence in a network that spans academia\, funding agencies\, and the news. This talk will focus on the methods developed to systematically study the use of ghost variables in the built environment and some preliminary results so far. \nClick here to register!
URL:https://premier-microbiome.org/event/1799/
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SUMMARY:PreMiEr DEI Book Club: Racism\, Not Race | Ch. 11 - Conclusions
DESCRIPTION:Fall DEI Book Club: Racism\, Not Race\, by Joseph Graves\, Jr. \nOn Tuesday\, November 14th\, we will discuss Chapter 11 & Conclusions.
URL:https://premier-microbiome.org/event/1825/
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SUMMARY:PreMiEr Seminar Series: Drs. Cynthia Gibas and Jessica Schlueter
DESCRIPTION:PreMiEr-sponsored seminar hosted by University of North Carolina at Charlotte. \nSpeakers: Drs. Cynthia Gibas\, Professor\, and Jessica Schlueter\, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics \nAdventures in Wastewater Monitoring \nWastewater 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 states. Wastewater based epidemiology has become a powerful tool for public health to monitor circulating and emerging viral variants. As a medium\, wastewater is a complex mixed matrix\, making the deconvolution of wastewater samples more difficult as there is a scarcity of benchmarked tools for metagenomic samples. We have created a gold-standard dataset constructed from synthetic viral controls spiked into a wastewater RNA matrix and sequenced on the Oxford Nanopore Technologies platform. We compare the performance of seven of the most commonly used deconvolution tools in identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants present in these mixtures. But there’s more to find in wastewater than just viruses and bacteria. Protein biomarkers of exposure and infection are accessible via fecal samples\, and we have recently demonstrated that specific human antibodies can be detected in community wastewater. This assay has the potential to provide population-level data about the susceptibility component of the epidemiological SEIR model at a much lower cost than traditional serology. \nClick here to register!
URL:https://premier-microbiome.org/event/1801/
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SUMMARY:PreMiEr DEI Book Club: Racism\, Not Race | Ch. 11 - Conclusions
DESCRIPTION:Fall DEI Book Club: Racism\, Not Race\, by Joseph Graves\, Jr. \nOn Tuesday\, November 28th\, we will discuss Chapter 11 & Conclusions.
URL:https://premier-microbiome.org/event/2079/
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