drsueishaq
Love your microbes
I am an Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Maine. My background is in host-associated microbiology. She/hers pronouns.
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MSE seminar today: "Linking Plant, Animal, and Human Health in Livestock Systems: a Metabolomics Approach"
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
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MSE seminar this Friday: "Linking Plant, Animal, and Human Health in Livestock Systems: a Metabolomics Approach"
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine…
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Tolu and Johanna's literature review on beneficial phytochemicals in cruciferous vegetables and Inflammatory Bowel Disease was published!
The Li and Ishaq labs are excited to announce a new literature review on the beneficial compounds in cruciferous vegetables was just published here in Current Developments in Nutrition, led by Tolu Esther Alaba (PhD candidate in GSBSE) and Johanna Holman (soon to be PhD candidate in Microbiology/Nutrition)!!
We’ve been researching the benefits of cruciferous vegetables on health, some of which…
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#broccoli sprouts#glucosinolates#graduate publications#Johanna#publication#review#sulforaphane#Tolu#Updates
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Upcoming presentations at the UMaine Student Symposium 2024
The UMaine Student Symposium is an annual event featuring research presentations from undergraduate and graduate students, and is a way to share student research on campus and with the Maine public.
All of the abstracts for the full program, and previous years, are available here.
The event is free to attend, and will take place at the New Balance Field House on the UMaine Orono Campus, Friday…
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Funding awarded to study "microbiome stewardship"!
A collaborative team of researchers (Drs. Kieran O’Doherty, Rob Beiko, Sue Ishaq, Emma Allen-Vercoe, Mallory Choudoir, and Diego Silva – check out their biographies below) has been awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) for a four-year project on how our collective microbiomes (the diverse microbes we share between humans and our environments) impact…
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MSE seminar today: "Don’t Stop Believin’: Managing student motivation on the journey from descriptive to mechanism."
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine…
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MSE seminar this Friday: "Don’t Stop Believin’: Managing student motivation on the journey from descriptive to mechanism."
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine…
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West Coast "speaking tour" in March
I was invited to give three talks on the west coast in March, which aligned so well I was able to string them together into a mini “speaking tour”. I’m looking forward to seeing work-related and non-work-related friends, and using a few of the days to visit more of the incredible ecosystems.
I will be presenting three versions of a talk called “Place and time matter for gut microbes making…
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Ayodeji defends his master's thesis!
Ayodeji Olaniyi defended his Master’s of Animal Science thesis today!! His project focused on cultures of bacteria that were isolated from the biofilms in scallop larvae hatchery tanks, to understand how they might be impacting larvae or microbial community dynamics in the tank. This was part of a series of studies and a larger collaboration on scallop health in Maine. He has previously presented…
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MSE seminar today: "Precision Microbiome for Health."
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine…
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MSE seminar this Friday: "Precision Microbiome for Health."
Events will be hosted January – December, 2024, on the last Friday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom.
After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting.
Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine…
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Presentation today on Microbes and Social Equity to the University of New Hampshire!
Today I’ll be visiting the University of New Hampshire to present my work on diet and gut microbes, and the creation of the Microbes and Social Equity working group, and engage in discussions with faculty and students. If you’ll be on campus, come say hello and eat pizza!
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MSE seminar today: Dr. Maya Hey, "What Connects Us: stories of working across difference with humans and microbes"
Today is the last installment in the spring 2022 Microbes and Social Equity speaker series! Each week, we’ll hear from a researcher who will share their work and perspective on how microbes are involved in all aspects of our lives, and how those microbes can affect individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
This series will run from Jan 19 – May 4, Wednesdays at 12:00 – 13:00 EST. These are…
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MSE seminar this Wednesday: Dr. Maya Hey, "What Connects Us: stories of working across difference with humans and microbes"
This Wednesday is the last installment in the spring 2022 Microbes and Social Equity speaker series! Each week, we’ll hear from a researcher who will share their work and perspective on how microbes are involved in all aspects of our lives, and how those microbes can affect individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
This series will run from Jan 19 – May 4, Wednesdays at 12:00 – 13:00 EST. These…
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MSE seminar today: Dr. Kristina Lyons, "Decomposition as Life Politics"
Today there is another installment in the spring 2022 Microbes and Social Equity speaker series! Each week, we’ll hear from a researcher who will share their work and perspective on how microbes are involved in all aspects of our lives, and how those microbes can affect individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
This series will run from Jan 19 – May 4, Wednesdays at 12:00 – 13:00 EST. These are…
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MSE seminar this Wednesday: Dr. Kristina Lyons, "Decomposition as Life Politics"
This Wednesday there is another installment in the spring 2022 Microbes and Social Equity speaker series! Each week, we’ll hear from a researcher who will share their work and perspective on how microbes are involved in all aspects of our lives, and how those microbes can affect individuals, communities, and ecosystems.
This series will run from Jan 19 – May 4, Wednesdays at 12:00 – 13:00 EST.…
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Featured on the Microbial Matters podcast!!
I was interviewed by Dr. Mark Martin for the Microbial Matters podcast! Mark is a renowned microbiologist who has long has a presence online making science accessbile to everyone. The show features exciting and fun conversations with researchers about their work on tiny organisms with a global impact.
I’ve linked to the Youtube video version below, but you can download the video/audio for my…
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