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March 2025

News

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Building Systems to Support More Powerful Real-Time Health Monitoring

William Bentley is engineering a bioelectronic device to transfer information between microelectronics and biological systems.

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Mihai Pop Is Named an MPower Professor

This prestigious honor recognizes, incentivizes and fosters collaborations between faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Center Events

MicroSocial Seminar Series

The MicroSocial Seminar Series aims to facilitate scientific exchange and community building across the University of Maryland's microbiome research community. Seminars feature short talks by students and faculty, followed by 30 minutes of informal socializing over coffee and snacks.

When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 4 p.m.

Location: ESJ 2204

Speaker: Darby Steinman, Ph.D. student, Bioengineering

Talk: "Vaginal Microbes Communicate with Reproductive Tissues via Production of Extracellular Vesicles"

Speaker: Taiwo Bankole, Ph.D. student, Nutrition and Food Science

Talk: "The Effect of Broccoli Glucoraphanin Supplementation on Ameliorating High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity through the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome Interface"

Get all of the center's upcoming events on your UMD google calendar with one click (only accessible with UMD account).

Other Resources

Center for Microbiome Innovation International Microbe Meeting

When: March 11–13, 2025

Location: La Jolla, California

Learn More and Register

Maryland Aquatic Viral Ecology Meeting

When: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Location: University of Maryland, College Park

Contact Stephen Beckett (beckett@umd.edu) by Friday, March 7 if you'd like to attend.

To have your research, events, or other resources included in the next newsletter, contact the center's program coordinator Gabi Steinbach at gabis@umd.edu.

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