"Delineating the underlying reasons for the population differences in gastric cancer incidence in the United States” With Meira Epplein, MD
2025-08-26 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Marsico Hall 2004
“Delineating the underlying reasons for the population differences in gastric cancer incidence in the United States”
Meira Epplein, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Risk, Detection, and Interception (CRDI)
Duke Cancer Institute
Professor, Population Health Sciences and Medicine,
Duke University School of Medicine

Meira Epplein is Co-Leader of the Cancer Risk, Detection, and Interception Program of the Duke Cancer Institute and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Medicine at Duke University. She is a cancer epidemiologist interested in modifiable risk factors in underserved populations, with a focus on the association of infection and cancers. She has been PI of five grants from the NCI seeking to further our understanding of the diversity of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori, and host response to infection, and the association with gastrointestinal cancers. She is also involved in local initiatives to understand the prevalence of H. pylori in the community and to explore the opportunities for precision prevention of gastric cancer through targeted H. pylori eradication therapy.

"Introduction to division Research" With Erica Brenner, MD, MSCR
2025-08-27 16:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM

"Introduction to Division Research" With Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD, MSCR
2025-09-03 16:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM

"The Assembly, Evolution, and Clinical Implications of the Gut Microbiota in Early Life" With Daniel Sprockett, PhD, MSc
2025-09-09 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Introduction to Division Research" With Evan Dellon, MD, MPH and Cary C. Cotton, MD, MPH
2025-09-10 16:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM

"Towards Personalized Therapy for Hirschsprung Disease" With Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP
2025-09-16 16:30 - 17:30 | ZOOM

"Introduction to Division Research: Journal Editor Roundtable" With Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, Michael Kappelman MD, MPH, and Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH
2025-09-17 16:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM

"Human-IBD Microbiota Experimental Colitis: A Model to Study Immune and Microbial Mechanisms of IBD Therapy Failure" With Simon Gray, MD, PhD
2025-09-23 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"TBD" With Eric Orman, MD MSCR
2025-09-24 16:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM

"GERD: A Spectrum of Disease or Distinct Diseases" With David A. Katzka, MD
2025-09-30 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Endocannabinoids as conduits of host-microbial interactions" With Melissa Ellermann, PhD
2025-10-07 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Evolving the Gut Microbiome: Dietary Impact on Colonization and Systematic Infection by Probiotics" With Aaron Hecht, MD, PhD
2025-10-14 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Use of multi-omics and pharmacoepidemiology to determine the association between the 7-alpha-dehydroxylation microbiome and clinical gallstone disease" With Gregory Peck, DO, MPH, FACS
2025-10-21 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

“Introduction to Division Research: Research Resources at UNC” With Anne Peery, MD, MCSR
2025-10-22 16:00 - 17:00

""Neuro-Immune Interactions in Tissue Immunity”" With Deepika Sharma, PhD
2025-10-28 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"TBD" With Alison Faust, MD and Shari Rogal MD, MPH
2025-11-05 16:00 - 17:00

"TBD" With Neil McCarthy, PhD
2025-11-11 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Prevention of C. difficile in healthcare systems" With Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD
2025-11-12 16:00 - 17:00

"Food as Medicine for Gut Health" With Shengmin Sang, PhD
2025-11-18 16:30 - 17:30 | ZOOM

"TBD" With Patricia Jones, MD MSCR
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:00

"TBD" With Abigail Gancz, PhD and "TBD" With Kylie Reed, PhD
2025-12-02 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"TBD" With Lauren D. Nephew, MD, MA, MSCE
2025-12-03 16:00 - 17:00

CGIBD Research Competition
2025-12-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Marsico Hall 2004

"Neighborhood Disadvantage and Clinical Outcomes in MASLD" With Karn Wijarnpreecha, MD and Claire Faulkner, MD MPH
2025-12-10 16:00 - 17:00

"Applying DNA Nanoballs to Spatial Genomics with Application to Microscopic Colitis" With Corbin Jones, PhD
2025-12-16 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004

"The programmable microbiome: engineering diet and probiotics to enhance gut resilience” With Ophelia Venturelli, PhD
2026-01-20 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004
Dr. 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 precision interventions that can steer these systems to desired states.

“Getting SMART about Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis: Developing Personalized Adaptive Treatment Strategies to Lower the Colectomy Rate” With Jeff Berinstein, MD, MSc
2026-01-21 16:00 - 17:00

Clinical Note Data Extraction with Large Language Models” With Josh Fuchs, PhD
2026-01-28 16:00 - 17:00

“Works in Progress” With Trevor Barlowe, MD
2026-02-04 16:00 - 17:00

"When Cells Pause: Visualizing Quiescence in the Gut” With Martha S. Johnson, PhD
2026-02-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Marsico Hall 2004
Dr. 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 is regulated, with a particular emphasis on the molecular mechanisms governing cell cycle exit and quiescence. Using live-cell imaging and biosensor-based approaches, she integrates bioanalytical chemistry, quantitative imaging, and molecular and cell biology to study how epithelial cells dynamically balance proliferation and arrest to maintain tissue homeostasis.
