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Molecular and Cellular Biology

The Molecular and Cellular Biology Track is an integrated, multidisciplinary graduate training program emphasizing gene function, animal development, and disease. Learn more >

Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Track is an integrated, interdisciplinary graduate training program examining the functions of the nervous system. Learn more >

Biomedical Engineering

Students in the Biomedical Engineering track receive training in the biological, physical and computational sciences through a combination of core and advanced courses, and interdisciplinary research. Learn more >

Toxicology

The Toxicology Track is an innovative, multidisciplinary graduate program investigating the consequences of exposure to chemical agents on living organisms and the environment. Learn more >

Functional Genomics

The Functional Genomics Track is a highly interactive, interdisciplinary program that brings together biologists, computer and information scientists, mathematicians, engineers, biophysicists, and chemists to examine fundamental biological processes related to gene and protein function and interactions. Learn more >

 

Development

The faculty investigate the basic processes that take us from fertilized egg to functional being, which also hold key information about how our genes function.

 
 

Faculty

Susan Ackerman

Susan Ackerman

Interests: Neurodegeneration, Neurodevelopment

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Carol Bult

Carol Bult

Interests: bioinformatics, genomics, cancer, lung development and disease

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Robert Burgess

Robert Burgess

Interests: Neurodevelopment, Synapse Formation

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Michael Burman

Michael Burman

Interests: Fear, Anxiety, Development, Learning, Memory, Behavioral Neuroscience

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James Coffman

James Coffman

Interests: Development, embryo, transcription, genomics, evolution

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Robert Friesel

Robert Friesel

Interests: Growth factors (FGFs), signal transduction, vascular biology, skeletal development, cancer

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Joel Graber

Joel Graber

Interests: computational biology bioinformatics genomics mRNA processing gene expression polyadenylation post-transcriptional gene processing

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Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley

Interests: Birth defects, Developmental mutants, Notch signaling pathway in development and disease, Snail family genes, cardiovascular development

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Mary Ann Handel

Mary Ann Handel

Interests: Spermatogenesis, Testis Development, Infertility Genetic Models

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Clarissa Henry

Clarissa Henry

Interests: Cell and molecular biology of segmentation and muscle development in Zebrafish

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Andre Khalil

Andre Khalil

Interests: Image Analysis, Signal Processing, Computational Modeling

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David Mokler

David Mokler

Interests: Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Drug Abuse, Developmental Neuroscience,

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Leif Oxburgh

Leif Oxburgh

Interests: embryonic kidney progenitor cells, organogenesis, tissue engineering, acute kidney injury

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Sandra Rieger

Sandra Rieger

Interests: Regeneration, Peripheral nervous system, wound reapir

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Lindsay Shopland

Lindsay Shopland

Interests: Genome Structure and Function Within the Nucleus

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Doug Spicer

Doug Spicer

Interests: Developmental biology and craniofacial development. Mesenchymal stem cell specification and differentiation.

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Dustin Updike

Dustin Updike

Interests: Regenerative Biology, Germline Development, Germ Granules, C. elegans

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Calvin Vary

Calvin Vary

Interests: Mechanisms of TGF-beta receptor regulation in vascular development and disease. Roles of endoglin in prostate cancer and its microenvironment. Study of biomedically-relevant models using mass spectrometry for quantitative protein analysis.

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Jeong Yoon

Jeong Yoon

Interests: Wnt signaling in mouse development and tissue regeneration

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Kyuson Yun

Kyuson Yun

Interests: stem cells cancer development brain

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Our programs include 5 tracks and more than 10 research areas.
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UMaine The Jackson Laboratory Maine Medical Center Research Institute The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory University of Southern Maine University of New England
 
For more information about the program, please contact:
Laura Hall, GSBSE Administrative Assistant • 207-581-4654 • gsbs@maine.edu