microbiome

2021 FDA-NIH-NIST-USDA Joint Agency Microbiome (JAM) Symposium

I presented a poster entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study participants” at the 2021 FDA-NIH-NIST-USDA Joint Agency Microbiome (JAM) Symposium held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Lightning Talk at NIEHS Workshop

I presented a lightning talk entitled “Geographic Variation in the Oral Microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Participants” at a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences workshop entitled Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020

I presented my abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of Agricultural Health Study applicators” at the Society for Epidemiologic Reserach 2020 annual meeting held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

DCEG Fellows Award for Research Excellence

I received a DCEG Fellows Award for Research Excellence from the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics for an abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study participants.

International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2020

I presented my abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Participants” at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Cluster Detection in PCoA Space using Kernel Density Estimation

I present code to identify relative spatial clustering in multidimensional scaling / principal coordinate analysis (MDS/PCoA) space. I use a spatial relative risk function risk from the sparr package.