Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

GSBSE Student Sarah Peterson and MMCRI Research Education Program Coordinator Liz Bergst recently received a poster presentation award at the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on  March 13 -15th. Their presentation focused on a unique program to provide personnel management training for research trainees at MMCRI. The NPA mission is “to improve […]

Interactions between plasma homocysteine and arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease in community-dwelling individuals: The Maine-Syracuse StudyMF Elias1,2, GE Crichton3,4 and WP Abhayaratna5 Plasma homocysteine (tHcy) is associated with kidney disease. However, few, if any, studies have examined homocysteine in relation to arterial stiffness, with stratification by the presence or absence of early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD). The […]

GSBSE 2014 Graduate Kira Young, along with current GSBSE students Jackie Ames and MaryLynn FitzSimons publishes in PLoS ONE. Young K, Tweedie E, Conley B, Ames JJ, FitzSimons M, Brooks P, Liaw L, Vary CPH. BMP9 crosstalk with the Hippo pathway regulates endothelial cell matricellular and chemokine responses. PLoS ONE. 2015;In Press.

The Maine Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) data base may be of value to GSBSE faculty and students interested in the genetics of neuronal repair, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, cholesterol, dementia, and cognitive functioning, among other outcomes adversely influenced by the presence of the  APOE 4 allele (https://www.oapublishinglondon.com/article/442) .  The MSLS seek collaboration from GSBSE faculty and […]

Ginny McLane was awarded the Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowship in MEIF Areas and Cong Tian received the Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship for 2015-2016. For a complete listing of award winners … http://www.umaine.edu/graduate/community/news-entry/2015-2016-award-recipients  

Article title: Microglial Content-Dependent Inhibitory Effects of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) on Murine Retroviral Infection of Glial Cells Reference: JNI476072 Journal title: Journal of Neuroimmunology Final version published online: 30-JAN-2015 Full bibliographic details: Journal of Neuroimmunology  (2015), pp. 64-70 DOI information:  10.1016/j.jneuroim.2015.01.010 http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QSncbfPiqfAJ

This second edition examines the relations of a host of behavioral and biomedical risk factors, in addition to subclinical and clinical CVDs, to brain and cognitive function. Associations with dementia and pre-dementia cognitive performance are reported, described, and discussed with a focus on underlying brain mechanisms. Future research agendas are suggested, and clinical implications are […]

Former GSBSE student Ryan W. Logan has been awarded a prestigious five-year NIH K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for a project entitled The Role of the Circadian Transcription Factor NPAS2 in the Nucleus Accumbens to Regulate Cocaine Reward.  This project will investigate the role of circadian clock genes in […]

Crichton, G. E., Elias, M. F., Dore, G. A., Torres, R. V., & Robbins, M. A. Measurement-to-measurement blood pressure variability is related to cognitive performance: The Maine-Syracuse Study. Hypertension 2014; 64;1094-1101. (DOI:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.04282.) http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/64/5/1094.abstract  

The University of Maine is seeking outstanding applicants for a doctoral graduate training program in adaptation to abruptclimate change funded by the NSF IGERT program. This is a joint program between the Climate Change Institute and theDepartment of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at UMaine (http://www.umaine.edu/a2c2igert). Students in this program will receive an annual stipend of […]