PreMiEr Welcomes Dr. Jeseth Deldago Vela
We are pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Jeseth Delgado Vela to the list of faculty associated with PreMiEr! Dr. Delgado Vela recently joined the faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. ...
PreMiEr Welcomes New Director of the Innovation Ecosystem
PreMiEr welcomes Dr. Ibrahim Mohedas to the team as the new Director of the ERC’s Innovation Ecosystem! Dr. Mohedas is currently an Executive in Residence in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and part of the Christensen Family Center for Innovation. ...
N.C. A&T PreMiEr Faculty and Scholars at ISEMPH
PreMiEr researchers from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) were well represented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health (ISEMPH) recently held at the Beckman Center in...
PreMiEr Welcomes Two New Faculty
Two new faculty from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (N.C. A&T) have joined the PreMiEr ERC team. Drs. Dongyang Deng and Antoinette Maldonado-Devincci will be bringing their expertise to Research Thrust 1 (Measuring microbiomes of the...
PreMiEr Associate Director Kuzma Talks About Genetic Modification
Dr. Jennifer Kuzma, PreMiEr Associate Director and Goodnight-NCGSK Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University, recently appeared in two prominent media sources talking about genetic...
New Publication from PreMiEr Researchers on Improving Metatranscriptomic Differential Analyses
PreMiEr researchers from Duke University, Drs. Zhicheng Ji (Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) and Li Ma (Department of Statistical Science) recently co-authored a publication entitled "Controlling taxa abundance improves metatranscriptomics differential...
PreMiEr Director Gunsch Added to BuildGirls Advisory Board
PreMiEr Center Director, Dr. Claudia Gunsch, was recently named as an advisory board member for BuildGirls. BuildGirls was founded in 2022 in Bethesda, Maryland to empower, educate, and engage females in high school about FACE (Females in Architecture, Construction...
PreMiEr Engages Local Middle School Students
Using the powers of science and a plastic bag for DNA extraction, PreMiEr faculty member Dr. Joshua Granek and graduate student Eva Kim recently traveled to a local middle school to introduce students there to the strange and complex world of soil microbiomes.
PreMiEr researcher, Dr. Lingchong You, co-authors paper on controlling cellular processes
Dr. Lingchong You, a professor in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and PreMiEr researcher, recently co-authored a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology describing methods for compartmentalizing cellular processes in mammalian and bacterial cells. Among...
New publication on using computer models to predict microbiome-associated disease
Congratulations to PreMiEr researcher Dr. Yi-Hui Zhou of North Carolina State University who recently co-authored an article entitled "Leveraging Scheme for Cross-Study Microbiome Machine Learning Prediction and Feature Evaluations" in the journal Bioengineering. Link...