Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

  GSBS student, Justin Guay was recently awarded the Founders Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship by the American Heart Association to begin on January first. The title and the summary of the grant are as follows: The Role of DAPK2 in Fibroblast Activation in Chronic Kidney Injury Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is frequently associated with cardiovascular disease […]

  John Lowery, D.O., a 2010 graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and GSBS student at the University of Maine, has published the findings of his latest research in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The article is entitled “In vivo characterization of MMP-2200, a delta/mu opioid agonist, in […]

Joshua Boucher, a GSBS student in the Cell & Molecular Track has been awarded  an American Heart Association Predoctoral Research Fellowship.  The title of his grant is “Differential Roles For Jagged1 and Delta like-1 in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells”  The funding period is two years and focuses not only on research but overall training of Ph.D […]

A great article about GSBS was recently published in the University of Maine’s quarterly magazine, UMaine Today.  It is entitled “Why and How of Human Disease: GSBS is committed to improving public health: and was written by by Aimee Dolloff.  Check it out at: http://www.umaine.edu/magazine/past-issues/winter-2009/why-and-how-of-human-disease/

On January 8th, GSBS students participated in their tri-monthly in-person meeting in Portland, ME.  The GSBS students hold monthly meetings via videoconference where students present on their recent work, but every three months one of the locations holds a get together for all the students.  The tri-monthly meeting was quite an event as the students […]

GSBS student Jill Recla has recently had a second solo-author, peer-reviewed, invited review article, entitled “Recent Developments in the Management of Post-Traumatic Pain” accepted for publication in the European Neurological Journal.  It is due in print in March 2010.  Jill is in the Functional Genomics Track of the GSBS. Jill’s first solo-author, peer-reviewed letter to the […]

On December 3, 2009, Ryan Logan successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Circadian Wheel-Running Activity During Withdrawal from Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure in Mice”.  His committee consisted of Alan M. Rosenwasser, Marie J. Hayes, and Thane Fremouw of the University of Maine Department of Psychology, Robert Burgess of the Jackson Laboratory, and Edward Bilsky of the […]

Jesse Salisbury, a GSBS Student in the Funtional Genomics Track will present “ANALYSIS OF POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL RNA PROCESSING” as part of his oral defense in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Functional Genomics.  The presentaton portion of the exam is open to all interested in attending. and will be held […]

On October 6, GSBS student Karen Dowell presented at the 7th Fraunhofer Symposium on Text Mining in Bonn, Germany.  This event was a forum for publishers, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals, and academic and government scientists to discuss trends and challenges in text mining research.  The focus of her talk was “ProMiner at MGI:  implementing dictionary-based named entity […]

On September 16, GSBS 2nd-year student Karen Dowell had her first first-author, peer-reviewed paper accepted by “Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.”  It should be published online later this month. The article reference is:  Dowell KG, MS McAndrews-Hill, DP Hill, HJ Drabkin, JA Blake (2009) “Integrating text mining into the MGI biocuration workflow.” […]