Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

Dr. Kerry L. Tucker, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England, has published a research article in the journal Developmental Biology, entitled “Primary cilia are critical for Sonic hedgehog-mediated dopaminergic neurogenesis in the embryonic midbrain”. Collaborating with a research team at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany, […]

Dr. Cliff Rosen and Dr. Leif Oxburgh have been awarded funding through the NIH. http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20150910/NEWS0101/150919995/maine-medical-center-research-institute-gets-$15m

Ms. No.: DBIO-15-231R3Title: Endoglin is required in Pax3-Derived Cells for Embryonic Blood Vessel Formation Corresponding Author: Dr. Calvin Vary Authors: Kira Young, PhD; Luke T Krebs, PhD; Eric Tweedie, BS; Barbara Conley, BS, MS; Maria Mancini, PhD; Helen M Arthur, PhD; Lucy Liaw, PhD; Thomas Gridley, PhD; http://www.journals.elsevier.com/developmental-biology/

The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) is holding its annual Genes, Brain and Behavior May 13-17  meeting at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, . This meeting presents an excellent opportunity for Maine neuroscientists to share their data and learn what others are doing in the rapidly growing field of behavioral neurogenetics. Please share this information […]

Kerry L. Tucker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England, has received a $65,000 grant from the Saving Tiny Hearts Society to investigate the development of some of the most common congenital heart defects seen in newborn babies, including atrial and ventricular septal defects.  The Saving tiny […]

Editorial: Improved cognitive performance after a single dialysis session: where do we go from here? Merrill F. Elias1,2, Stephen L. Seliger3 Rachael V. Torres1 http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/9/1414.extract?sid=9dee3b4b-fca6-48bc-9f42-2be6b09edd73

The Oxburgh lab, including GSBSE student Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, has published in Developmental Cell. The article, “A Synthetic Niche for Nephron Progenitor Cells”, is available online at http://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/abstract/S1534-5807%2815%2900428-1.

Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan received an honorable mention for the presentation of her poster at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Snowbird, Utah. http://sdbonline.org/2015mtg

Project Title: “Fungal-immune recognition dynamics during infection” Project Summary: Infectious fungal disease is an important but underappreciated clinical problem worldwide (Brown et al., 2012). The innate immune system distinguishes self from non-self during infection on the basis of conserved microbial components (Lionakis and Netea, 2013; Netea et al., 2008). Our laboratory discovered that some fungal […]

Lisa Weatherly’s first-author paper “Antimicrobial Agent Triclosan is a Proton Ionophore Uncoupler of Mitochondria in Living Rat and Human Mast Cells and in Primary Human Keratinocytes” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Toxicology.