Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

New Student Orientation
2017-08-25 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Graduate School, 42 Stodder Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Review of program resources, expectations, and guidelines. We will complete payroll paperwork during the orientation, specifically the I-9 form. Please bring document(s) needed to completed this form. Here is a link to the list of acceptable documents … https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents.

Fall 2017 Class Schedule
2017-08-28
Course Title
Instructor
Taught From

BMS 625 Genetics
Greg Cox
JAX

BMS 625 Biostatistics/Computational Biology
Christine Duarte/Greg Carter
MMCRI/JAX

BMS 630 Journal Club
Igor Prudovsky
MMCRI

BMS 640 Experimental Methods in Cell & Molecular Biology
Lucy Liaw/Cal Vary
MMCRI

BMS 690 The Biology of Aging
Ron Korstanje/Aric Rogers
JAX/MDIBL

Link to Fall Schedule Details (dates, times, VC, and classrooms) … https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=38d23de6c5fa4f1e86f05c9a43d0cbf9
Link to Event … https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/fall-2017-class-schedule/

Site Video-Conference Room Scheduling Contacts
UM: Tammy Crosby (tammy.crosby@maine.edu)
JAX: Carrie Cowan (carrie.cowan@jax.org)
MDIBL: Judi Medlin (jmedlin@mdibl.org)
MMCRI: Liz Bergst (bergse@mmc.org)
UNE: Jenn Malon (jmalon@une.edu)
Site Video-Conference IT Support
UM: AV Services, (207) 581-2500
JAX: VC Support, (207) 288-6000 X1414
MDIBL: Tony Mullane, (207) 288-9880 X455
MMCRI: IT Services, (207) 396-8193
UNE: Jenn Malon, (207) 602-2517

External Advisory Board Meeting
2017-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Graduate School, 42 Stodder Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
Please meet at the Graduate School in Stodder Hall on the University of Maine campus at 5:30 pm to carpool to the dinner.
Stodder Hall and Annual Meeting Directions
Agenda

GSBSE 2016-2017 Accomplishments
Upcoming in 2017-2018
Strategic Plan Update

Annual Meeting
2017-09-08 08:30 - 21:00 | Wells Conference Center, Orono, ME, 04468, United States
Link to Online Program … https://2017gsbseannualmeeting.sched.com/
GSBSE Annual Meeting Directions
GSBSE Annual Meeting Directions Parking Permit

Annual Meeting RSVP
Annual Meeting 2017 RSVP Form

Name

First

Last

Email

InstitutionWhat are you?

GSBSE Student

GSBSE Faculty

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Guest
Will you need lodging Thursday and/or Friday night?

Thursday

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CommentsWrite any comments or concerns you would like to raise.Dietary Restrictions?Please write any dietary concerns we should be aware of.Which events will you be attending?

Friday Meeting

Friday Dinner

Saturday Faculty Meeting
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Oral Presentations

Posters

I'd like to be a moderator for Oral Presentations

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Please select all that apply.CommentIf you selected "other," please explain.Would you like to display a poster at the meeting?

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Friday Dinner
Please select all that apply.

Fall Faculty Meeting
2017-09-09 09:00 - 10:00 | Wells Conference Center, Orono, ME, 04468, United States
Teleconference details: Dial (207) 581-5674 . Your Meeting ID is 7796#.
GSBSE Faculty Meeting Directions
Parking Permit

Agenda Fall 2017 Faculty Meeting
Fall 2017 Faculty Meeting Notes

Fall Student Meeting
2017-09-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Wells Conference Center, Orono, ME, 04468, United States
Agenda
Meeting Notes

Distance Instructor Training
2017-09-09 10:00 - 12:00
The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) will provide training to GSBSE Faculty teaching distance courses via video-conference and online, utilizing the following technologies …
Blackboard Learning Management System
Kaltura Video Capture and Streaming Software
Zoom Video and Web Conferencing Software
and how these systems interact and can be utilized for distance learning.
You must activate your maine.edu account prior to the training by call UM IT at (207) 581-2506.

Travel Award Applications Due
2017-09-30
Complete the Travel Award Application Form by September 30, 2017. Preference will be given to applicants that have not previously received travel awards.
Travel Award Application Form
Travel Award Application Instructions

Seminar - Reducing the Pain of Cardiac Electrical Therapies
2017-10-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium ESRB/Barrows Hall, Orono, ME, 04468, United States
Abstract
Since the discovery that electrical currents were important for cardiac function there has been
intense interest in the development of cardiac electrical therapies. The most common cardiac
electrical therapies today are pacing and defibrillation, which act to restore mechanical
function and blood flow by correcting pathological electrical dysrhythmias. Each year over
100,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the US alone, and
despite significant research, both ICDs and noninvasive pacing therapies are limited by the
common issue of pain. The pain of electrical therapies is a well-studied yet poorly-understood
limitation that has created underserved clinical populations. My work to reduce pain uses
biophysically detailed computational models, isolated muscle and heart preparations, and
large animal in vivo experiments. A novel method to quantify pain in animals was developed
based on extensive evidence suggesting that aberrant skeletal muscle contraction underlies
shock-induced pain. This measurement, the rate of force development (RoFD), was then
used to develop a novel waveform to reduce pain caused by defibrillation. I will discuss this
prior work, other studies to reduce the pain of external cardiac pacing, and ongoing work to
translate our findings to human clinical application.
Speaker
Dr. Hunter is a 2010 graduate of the University of Maine’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After
graduation he pursued his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University where his research focused on
cardiac electrophysiology, specifically novel electrical therapies for cardiac arrhythmia. After he completed his Ph.D. he began
research on atrial ablation therapies in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Cardiology department. He is also a lecturer in the
department of biomedical engineering and a consultant for a startup company that was founded on his Ph.D. research.

Webinar: SPARK Global – A new worldwide initiative to improve translation of medical research to benefit patient health
2017-10-10 14:00 - 15:00
About:
This workshop will be very useful to learn about the SPARK programs to facilitate faculty to move ideas into products (therapies, diagnosis, devices) with actual funding. SPARK initiative started in Stanford, but many institutions in different countries worldwide have established individual SPARK programs and we are now moving to Global SPARK. We established SPARK at the University of Vermont 4 years ago and the number of faculty who have entered the entrepreneurship area has markedly grown.

Speaker Bio:
Michael Wallach, Ph.D., has over 30 years of experience in molecular parasitology with a wealth of experience in both academic and industrial science. He was the inaugural director of a key research institute, Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2002. In 2008, Michael established a new course in Bio-Innovation and Entrepreneurship where graduates work in small teams to form creative innovative ideas for medical health products. This course has been given locally and internationally culminating in 2016 with a course given at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2013, he was appointed as the inaugural director of the SPARK Sydney program, which was established by UTS and the University of Sydney, to emulate the Stanford SPARK program. Furthermore, Michael played a key role in building SPARK Global, which is expected to be formally established, with the participation of 10 countries, in 2017.

Student Monthly Meeting
2017-10-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2017-11-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2017-12-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2018-01-19 10:00 - 19:00, 2018-02-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2018-03-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2018-04-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2018-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 and 1 more date
All Meetings Video-Conferenced to GSBSE Sites, except January, April, and September In-Person Meetings.
To connect to the conference from your Polycom enter the IP address of our bridge : 169.244.81.112. You will hear the automated attendant when you connect. When prompted, press the # key on your remote (this brings up the keypad/touch tone control). Now enter the conference ID 8666464 followed by the # key. This will place your unit in the conference. To participate via telephone (audio only) dial 207-866-6464.

UMaine Webinar: Using NVivo as a Research Tool
2017-10-17 10:00 - 11:00
About:
This webinar Using NVivo as a Research Tool will cover how NVivo can assist with your research in the following ways:

Literature Review: Efficiently organize and tag literature, easily keep track of critical quotes, and track ideas across many articles
Coding: Code your literature, interviews, surveys, and any other data you may collect in a single, convenient location and analyze all your data for multiple articles in one NVivo project
Analyzing Data: Using queries to uncover potential themes, understand words in context, and explore relationships
Findings: Gather together all your research findings in a single location, making it easy to link your literature and your data, and to easily find quotes to illustrate themes
Publish: With all your data organized and analyzed in an NVivo project, writing happens quickly and easily

Waldron and Hunter Fellowship Application Deadline
2017-12-04 17:00
If you would like to be considered for either of these fellowships, please submit a CV for yourself and your PI as well as a letter of recommendation from your PI to kristen.freeman1@maine.edu no later than Monday, December 4th at 5:00pm.

Seminar: Soft Materials-based Sensors and Actuators: from cancer diagnosis to tactile communication
2017-12-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium ESRB/Barrows Hall, Orono, ME, 04468, United States
Title: Soft Materials-based Sensors and Actuators: from cancer diagnosis to tactile communication
Abstract: Translational biomedical engineering plays an important role in assimilating the advancement of nanomaterials and microdevice engineering towards developing innovative tools for medicine, as well as contributing to the investigations across the multi-scale biological hierarchy with minimal invasions. Our laboratory is currently developing a few novel soft-materials based biotechnologies exploring scale-dependent physical science and the miniaturization technology towards efficient healthcare. In this talk, I will review our research on rapid blood screening devices for circulating tumor cells detection and analysis, and the recent collaboration with Facebook on developing tactile communication devices using polymer piezoelectric thin films. Nano-Micro scale science, Information, and Biomedicine are integrative components of the research that are used with advanced engineering tools to facilitate biomedical studies and develop point-of-care diagnostics for global health applications.
About Dr. Zhang: Dr. John X.J. Zhang is a Professor at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. Before joining Dartmouth, he was an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas of Austin (UT Austin). He received his B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 1995, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maine, Orono in1998, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California in 2004, and he was a Research Scientist in Systems Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining the faculty at UT Austin in 2005. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a recipient of 2016 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.
Zhang’s research focuses on exploring bio-inspired nanomaterials, scale-dependent biophysics, and nanofabrication technology, towards developing new diagnostic devices and methods on probing complex cellular processes and biological networks critical to development and diseases. Both multi-scale experimental and theoretical approaches are combined to investigate fundamental force, flow and energy processes at the interface of engineering and biomedicine. In particular, his laboratory is leading the development of integrated microfluidic and photonic microsystems (MEMS, micro-electro-mechanical systems), semiconductor chips and nanotechnologies critical to healthcare, defense and environmental applications. Dr. Zhang has a track record for developing well-funded research programs and his research has been sponsored by NIH, NSF, DARPA, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, British Council, and several other agencies. His group has published over 160 peer reviewed publications, presented over 70 invited seminars worldwide and filed more than 50 patents (7 US patents and 30+ international patents issued). He received the Wallace Coulter Foundation Early Career Award for developing handheld microphotonic imaging scanners and microsystems for early oral cancer detection; NSF CAREER award for the invention of plasmonic scanning probes design for controlled perturbation and imaging at sub-cellular level; and DARPA Young Faculty Award for patterning plasmonic surface on MEMS for biomarker sensing applications. Dr. Zhang is also a recipient of NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards in 2016, to develop implantable energy harvesting devices enabled by flexible porous polymer films integrated on multi-stable structures. His research findings were licensed to two companies: CardioSpectra (acquired by Volcano, Nasdaq: VOLC), and NanoLite Systems for developing successful products designed to diagnose cancer through blood screening, tissue imaging and cell transformations at the point-of-care. Recently, Dr. Zhang is leading the effort working with Facebook on inventing wearable actuators for social touch and future tactile communication through the skin.
He is an alumnus of NAE Frontiers of Engineering programs, an editor for IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, and has published a textbook for undergraduates entitled Molecular Sensors and Nanodevices: Principles, Designs and Applications in Biomedical Engineering.

GSBSE Applications Due January 1st
2018-01-01
Application
GSBSE applications are due January 1st, 2018. You can submit your application here:
https://gsbse.umaine.edu/prospective/admissions/

Pre-Application
Additionally, it is recommended that potential applicants submit a pre-application prior to submitting their primary application to introduce themselves to the GSBSE faculty and admissions committee. Submitting the pre-application is a good way to to determine if GSBSE and you are a good fit. You can submit your pre-application here:
https://gsbse.umaine.edu/prospective/pre-application/

Day 1: Grant Writing Session
2018-01-11 08:00 - 13:00 | 57 Stodder Hall, Stodder Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
In conjunction with the Office of the Vice President/Dean of the Graduate School the Graduate Student Government is holding a 3-day grants writing workshop series designed specifically with graduate students in mind. You do not have to attend all 3 sessions, however a certificate of completion will be granted by the graduate school for anyone who does complete all sessions.

To RSVP for the events, please click the links below:
Stodder Hall events: Click here to RSVP
Fogler Library event: Click here to RSVP

Day 2: Peer-View Session
2018-01-12 09:00 - 14:00 | 57 Stodder Hall, Stodder Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, United States

Day 3: ScholComm2018
2018-01-17 09:00 - 14:00 | University Club, Fogler Library, Fogler Library, Orono, ME, 04469, United States

Spring 2018 Class Schedule
2018-01-22
Course Title
Instructor(s)
Taught From
Orono Location
Other Locations
Dates
Times

BIO 580 Cell Biology
Kristy Townsend
UMO
Estabrooke Hall 130
N/A
01/22/18-
05/04/18
Tu, Th 9:30AM-10:45AM

BMS 625 Animal Physiology
Ilka Pinz
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
01/23/18 -03/08/18
Tu, Th 9:30AM – 10:45AM

BMS 625 Biochemistry
Calvin Vary
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
03/20/18 -05/03/18
Tu, Th 3:30PM – 4:45PM

BMS 630 Journal Club
Arturo Hernandez
Robert Koza
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
01/22/18 -05/04/18
Mo 8:00AM – 9:50AM

BMS 635 Mammalian Genetics
Gareth Howell
JAX
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax: NRB 2205
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
02/06/18 -03/08/18
Tu, Th 1:00PM – 3:00PM

BMS 635 Mouse Genome Manipulation
Lucy Liaw
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
03/20/18 -04/10/18
Tu, Th 1:00PM – 2:50PM

BMS 635 Advanced Mouse Genome Manipulation
Lucy Liaw
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
04/12/18 -05/03/18
Tu, Th 1:00PM – 2:50PM

BMS 635 Fluorescence Tech in Biomed Science
Paul J Millard
UMaine
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
04/03/18 -04/26/18
Tu, Th 10:00AM – 11:50AM

BMS 645 – Cell Biology Tissue Development and Function
Lucy Liaw, Calvin Vary
MMCRI
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
01/22/18 -05/04/18
Tu, Th 8:00AM – 9:15AM

BMS 660 – Cell, Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology
Robert Burgess
JAX
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
01/22/18 -05/04/18
Fr 1:00PM – 2:50PM

BMS 690 – The Biology of Aging
Ron Korstanje, Aric Rogers
JAX, MDIBL
Hitchner Hall 147
Jax:
MDIBL:
MMCRI:
UNE:
02/14/18 -05/02/18
Mo, We 9:30AM-10:45AM

Link to Spring Schedule Details (dates, times, VC, and classrooms) … Click here to download an Excel sheet (updated 12/5/17)
Link to Event … https://gsbse.umaine.edu/event/spring-2018-class-schedule/

Site Video-Conference Room Scheduling Contacts
UM: Kristen Freeman (kristen.freeman1@maine.edu)
JAX: Carrie Cowan (carrie.cowan@jax.org)
MDIBL: Judi Medlin (jmedlin@mdibl.org)
MMCRI: Liz Bergst (bergse@mmc.org)
UNE: Jenn Malon (jmalon@une.edu)
Site Video-Conference IT Support
UM: AV Services, (207) 581-2500
JAX: VC Support, (207) 288-6000 X1414
MDIBL: Tony Mullane, (207) 288-9880 X455
MMCRI: IT Services, (207) 396-8193
UNE: Jenn Malon, (207) 602-2517

2018 UMaine Student Research Symposium (UMSS18)
2018-04-17 | Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor, ME, 04401, United States
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 9, 2018

45th Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS)
2018-04-27 - 2018-04-28 | MDI Biological Laboratory, 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, United States
The 45th Annual Maine Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS) is a state-wide gathering of scientists and students—an opportunity to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration, and network with Maine scientists in a variety of disciplines.
Keynote Speaker: Cassandra Extavour, Ph.D., Harvard University
Abstract submission deadline: TBA
Abstracts are submitted with registration.
Registration deadline: April 13, 2018 or until full. In the past three years this event has filled weeks before the registration deadline.

Registration will open in the late fall of 2017. If you wish to be notified, please contact the Education Office.

Spring Faculty Meeting
2018-04-27 09:00 - 11:00 | MDI Biological Laboratory, 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, United States
GSBSE Faculty Meeting Directions to Maren Auditorium

Agenda Spring 2018 Faculty Meeting
Spring 2018 Faculty Meeting Notes
