Un-Seminar Series Fall 2023

The un-seminar series are weekly meetings that present preliminary research with the goal of spurring active conversations and creating new research collaborations.

Talks take place on Tuesdays from 12–1 p.m. at the DeWalt Seminar Room in Glenn Martin Hall (EGR-2164). Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch.

Date	Speaker	Talk
September 19	Mihai Pop, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies	“The Role of Mobile Elements in the Journey of Pathogens From Farm to Fork”
September 26	Birthe Kjellerup, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering	“Metagenomic and Bioinformatic Analyses of Environmental/Experimental Samples Associated with Contamination of Halogenated Compounds”
October 3	Stephanie Yarwood, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Technology	“Educational Activities with the UMD Microbiome Center”
October 10	Jude Maul, Research Ecologist at USDA	TBA
October 31	Ryan Blaustein, Assistant Professor of Nutrition & Food Science	“Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne Pathogens and Emerging Food Systems”
November 7	Brantley Hall, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics	“Techniques for Microbiome Measurements”
November 14	Mihai Pop, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies	Upcoming Symposium on Microbiome Research