Seminar Series


Seminar offerings from our partners

New events will be posted soon.

 April 6, 2026 鈥 5:00 – 6:00 pm (Online-only Zoom event)

Join Hermann Haller, M.D., President of MDI Biological Laboratory, scientist and passionate art historian, for a fascinating exploration of one of the most iconic paintings of the Enlightenment, 鈥淭he Portrait of Antoine & Marie-Anne Lavoisier.鈥

 May 11, 2026 鈥 5:00 – 6:00 pm (Hybrid event: Maren Auditorium and Zoom)

How can a millimeter-long worm help answer some of biology鈥檚 biggest questions? Join us for a conversation about “C. elegans” with MDI Bio Lab鈥檚 Dustin Updike, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Emily Spaulding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and The George Wojtech Endowed Chair in Neurobiology; and moderator Elisabeth Marnik, Ph.D.

New events will be posted soon.

April

8 – 10, 2026:

14 – 17, 2026:

April 28 – May 1, 2026:

May

4 – 8, 2026:

11 – 14, 2026:

18 – 22, 2026:

July

20 – 31, 2026:

August

6 – 14, 2026:

24 – 28, 2026:

September

10 – 16, 2026:

Sept 28 – Oct 1, 2026:

October

11 – 16, 2026:

26 – 29, 2026:

November

2 – 4, 2026:

: a signature event series that showcases Maine’s innovation ecosystem and foster collaboration across the region

  • Pipeline Power: Roux’s Student Achievement Showcase – Apr 16, 2026
  • Startup Maine Week – May 18, 2026

April 07, 2026:


91爆料 seminars


IoM & COA Seminar: Clinicians’ Role in Assessing Driving Fitness with Dr. Hansmann and Dr. Meuser

Dr. KJ Hansmann, Family medicine doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Dr. Tom Meuser, Clinical Psychologist, Applied Gerontologist, and Social Scientist, based in Portland, Maine

The recording of the seminar is available 
The seminar slides are available 

NIH Priorities and the 91爆料 Research Community

Dr. Kody Varahramyan, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School
Dr. Jennifer Swalec, Office of Research Development
Dr. David Harder, Director of the Institute of Medicine

The recording of the seminar is available 
The seminar slides are available 

The Oral Health-Total Health Connection: Improving Interprofessional Care for Older Adults

Leonard Brennan, DMD, Co-Director of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine Geriatrics
Fellowship

Denise O鈥機onnell, MSW, LCSW, CCM, Associate Director, Lunder-Dineen Health
Education Alliance of Maine, Slavin Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Jennifer Crittenden, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor of Social Work; Associate Director for
Research, 91爆料 Center on Aging

The recording of the seminar is available 

Understanding the Nervous System Using C. elegans as a Model Organism

Zhao Xuan, Ph.D., Assistant professor of neurobiology, School of Biology and Ecology, 91爆料

The recording of the seminar is available 

Seroprevalence of West Nile Virus in Adults in Southern Maine, USA.

Catherine Miller, Ph.D, Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Maine

The recording of the seminar is available 

The Lasers and Materials Engineering (LAME) Group: Exploring 3D Structural Microscopy, Investigating Active Materials, and Developing Medical Devices

Asheesh Ravikumar Lanba, PhD.  Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Composites Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)

Climate Change Linkages to the Spread of Vector-borne Disease in Maine

Speaker: Sean Birkel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & Maine State Climatologist
Susan Elias, Ph.D., Staff Scientist

Cultural Competence in Nursing

Speaker: Speaker: Colleen Marzilli, Ph.D., DNP, MBA

The recording of the seminar is available 

Panic: The Untold Truths

Speaker: Kelly R. Klein, MD, MPH, FACEP

Microbes and Social Equity Speaker Series 2023

This event took place in Summer 2023.  Recordings are available on the  LOVE YOUR MICROBES blog

Do some over-the-counter antimicrobials do more harm than good? The unexpected cellular and mitochondrial toxicity of triclosan and cetylpyridinium chloride

February 24, 2023

Speaker: Julie Gosse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry, 91爆料

The Prophages of Pathogenic Mycobacteria and Their Role in Intrinsic Drug Resistance

November 4 2022

Speaker:  Sally D. Molloy, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Genomics, The 91爆料 Honors College, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

Vitamin D Supplementation: Where鈥檚 the Evidence?

October 28, 2022

Speaker: Clifford J. Rosen, MD, Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine, Principal Investigator of the NNE-CTR.

Childhood Brain Injury: Perspectives from Speech-Language Pathology on Serving Children with Mild to Severe Injuries

October 21, 2022

Speaker: Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD, CCC-SLP Assistant Professor- Communication Sciences & Disorders

First Annual Mental Health Lecture
Pathways to Care for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in Rural Maine

October 18, 2022

Speaker: Jeffrey E. Hecker, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Clinical Training, 91爆料

Building Community-University Partnerships for Health Equity in Downeast Maine

September 16, 2022

Speakers:  Tora Johnson, PhD, Director, Geographic Information Systems Service Center, Associate Professor of GIS 91爆料 Machias
Katherine Weatherford Darling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Social Science Program, 91爆料, Augusta
Oliver Gray Jones, 91爆料 PhD Student

Amyloid 尾-Peptide and Brain Oxidative Damage: Focus on the Intersection of the Lipid Peroxidation Product Hne, Glucose Dysmetabolism, and Alzheimer Disease

September 6, 2022 鈥 First Annual Distinguished Science Lecture

Speaker: D. Allan Butterfield, Ph.D.
The UK Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Biological Chemistry;
Associate Vice President for Research for Centers and Institutes and UK Research Priority Areas;
Fellow, Society for Redox Biology and Medicine
University of Kentucky

The Epidemic of Elder Isolation and Loneliness Accompanying COVID

February 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm 鈥 1:00 pm

Speakers: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Director, 91爆料 Center on Aging, Professor, 91爆料 School of Social Work
Clifford Milo Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF, Chief of Geriatric Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry at Acadia Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center

Community Engagement to Enhance Research in Maine

October 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm 鈥 1:00 pm

Speaker: Elizabeth Jacobs, MD MPP, Vice President for Research  MaineHealth

Identifying tissue-specific nutrient-sensing effects on growth, health, and longevity in C. elegans

October 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm 鈥 1:00 pm

Speaker: Aric Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MDIBL

Veterinary Forensic Pathology and One Health

October 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm 鈥 1:00 pm

Speaker: Nanny Wenzlow, DVM, Ph.D., MRCVS, Dipl. ACVP

Content warning. Some of the images in the recording above are graphic

A new dawn for chronic kidney disease 鈥 SGLT-2 inhibition as a novel strategy

September 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm 鈥 1:00 pm

Speaker: Hermann Haller, MD, President, MDIBL

Pathways to commercialization of medical products or devices

April 16, 2021 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker: Michael Mason, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 91爆料.

Skin In-Growth to 3D Printed Metals

March 26, 2021 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker: Ian D. Dickey, MD, FRCSC Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Dept. of Orthopaedics

In vivo physiology of kidney development detected with genetically encoded biosensors

March 12, 2021 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker: Iain Drummond,  Ph.D. Professor and Director, Davis Center for Aging and Regeneration. MDI Biological Laboratory.

The recording of the seminar is available 

A novel role of wild blueberry phenolic extracts to promote endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis associated with wound healing and tissue regeneration

November 13. 2020 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Dorothy Klimis, Ph.D. FACN, Professor of Clinical Nutrition, School of Food and Agriculture and cooperating professor of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the 91爆料.

A crash course in the gut microbiome

November 6, 2020 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker: Suzanne (Sue) Ishaq, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences

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Water pollution, rising temperatures and a mysterious kidney disease

October 30, 2020 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Environmental Physiology and Toxicology Lab, School of Marine Sciences & Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

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The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical from the Engineering Perspective

October 23, 2020 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Somayeh Khosroazad, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Ecological and social drivers of the spread of vector-borne diseases

October 16, 2020 @ 3:00 pm 鈥 4:00 pm

Speaker: Allison (Allie) Gardner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and a cooperating faculty member in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences program.

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