Events
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“The programmable microbiome: engineering diet and probiotics to enhance gut resilience” With Ophelia Venturelli, PhD
Marsico Hall 2004Dr. Ophelia Venturelli is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. The Venturelli lab aims to understand and engineer microbiomes and host-microbiome interactions for applications spanning human health, built environment and agriculture. Specifically, we combine high-throughput experiments, synthetic biology, computational modeling and multi-objective optimization to discover control knobs in the microbiome and design … Read more
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“When Cells Pause: Visualizing Quiescence in the Gut” With Martha S. Johnson, PhD
Marsico Hall 2004Dr. Martha S. Johnson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, working under the direction of Dr. Jean Cook and co-mentored by Dr. Scott Magness. Her work in the Cook Lab focuses on understanding how the cell cycle … Read more
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“Adaptation of the beneficial commensal microbe Akkermansia muciniphila to gastrointestinal mucins and its effects on host physiology” With Raphael H. Valdivia
Marsico Hall 2004Raphael H. Valdivia is the Nanaline Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Chair of the Department of Integrative Immunobiology at Duke University School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding how pathogenic and beneficial microbes adapt to their environments and how they influence the physiology of their hosts. The work presented will focus on Akkermansia muciniphila, a mucophilic microbe currently being considered as a next-generation probiotic for various immune and metabolic disorders.
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