Clarissa Henry, Professor of Biological Sciences in the School of Biology & Ecology at the University of Maine, takes part in discussing the growth of biomedical research and education in Maine. Clarissa’s research is in a cell and molecular biology of segmentation and muscle development in zebrafish. The goal of the lab Clarissa run is to […]
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) T32 Steering Committee has chosen eight current GSBSE Ph.D. students as the third cohort of the UMaine GSBSE NIH T32 Institutional Research Training Grant. The awardees are: Zaid Al-Abbasi, mentor Dr. Derek Molliver of the University of New England Audrie Langlais, mentor Dr. Katherine Motyl of […]
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We are pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Clarissa Henry to Director of the GSBSE and welcome Dr. Michael Mason to the GSBSE Leadership Team as Associate Director. Dr. Henry has served as Program Director since 2018, during which time she has overseen multiple initiatives across all aspects of the program including increasing both […]
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Eating a diet similar to the Mediterranean diet is associated with lower blood pressure among U.S. adults, according to a study by University of Maine and the University of South Australia researchers. The study, conducted by researchers Fayeza Ahmed, Benjamin Guenther and Merrill Elias at UMaine, and Alexandra Wade and Karen Murphy at the University […]
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Daniel Regan, GSBSE PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Dr. Susan J. Hunter Presidential Research Impact Award for the top Graduate Presentation overall at the 2020 UMaine Student Symposium held virtually on October 2nd, 2020. He was additionally selected as the top graduate presenter in the category of Engineering and Information Sciences. His […]
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The Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core and Maine Genomics Research Collaborative is co-hosting a series of these four online NCBI Workshops: 1. An Update on NCBI BLAST and Other Sequence Analysis Tools – Tues., Sept. 22nd from 2-5pm. 2. NCBI Resources for Animal and Plant Genomics Research – Wed., Sept. 23rd from 2-5pm. 3. NCBI Resources […]
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Drs. Melissa Maginnis, Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine, and Meghan May, Associate Professor in Microbiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England College of Medicine, will present in the next installment of the popular “Science on Tap” series […]
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Dr. Aric Rogers, Assistant Professor at the MDI Biological Laboratory and affiliated faculty at the GSBSE, recently received a $1,867,500 R01 grant from NIA/NIGMS. Additionally, he published three papers in 2019: Lan J, Rollins JA, Zang X, Wu D, Zou L, Wang Z, Ye C, Wu Z, Kapahi P*, Rogers AN*, Chen D* (2019). Translational Regulation […]
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Jordan Miner won a poster presentation award at New England Biomedical Optics Symposium Oct. 15. The poster was titled Imaging Zebrafish with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using Second Harmonic Generation to Evaluate Myosin Structure. The conference is a primarily post-doc and graduate student event, making this award particularly noteworthy since Jordan Miner is a University of […]
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Jesse Rochester and Sarah Holbrook in the Updike Lab at MDI Biological Laboratory and the Burgess Lab at the Jackson Laboratory, respectively, were featured as co-authors in a recent publication titled “Germline Maintenance Through the Multifaceted Activities of GLH/Vasa in Caenorhabditis elegans P Granules” in the latest publication of the journal Genetics. Sarah Holbrook’s contribution […]
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