Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

On April 9th, 2014, at the Annual Banquet of the Pulp and Paper Foundation, Dr. David Neivandt received the Joseph M. Genco Award for his stellar research, teaching, and service. Dr. Neivandt is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of UMaine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering. The Joseph M. Genco Award for […]

Congratulations to CJ Demers and Lisa Weatherly.  Lisa was awarded the Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship (CDRA) and CJ was awarded the Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2014-2015.

The Whole ScientistThe course directly targets post docs and advanced graduate students providing: science communication, entrepreneurism, mentoring and lab management training. May 27, 2014 – May 30, 2014Event Schedule The Jackson Laboratory – Highseas Conference Center, Bar Harbor ME Preparing for science careers? Join us as we assist in expanding your professional skills leading to […]

Congratulations to UMaine GSBSE faculty members Sam Hess for promotion to the rank of Professor, and Julie Gosse and Rob Wheeler for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2014/03/25/thirty-two-umaine-faculty-members-receive-tenure-andor-promotion/

Ginny McLane has been published as first author in the Journal of Neuroimmunology, entitled  ” Morphine increases hippocampal viral load and suppresses frontal lobe CCL5 expression in the LP-BM5 AIDS model.”. http://www.jni-journal.com/article/S0165-5728(14)00060-5/abstract

  Lisa Weatherly current GSBSE student and Rachel Kennedy a former GSBSE student  are co-first authors of  a paper published in this years Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).  It is titled “A Microplate Assay to Assess Chemical Effects on RBL-2H3 Mast Cell Degranulation: Effects of Triclosan without Use of an Organic Solvent” Congratulations to both […]

Friday, November 15, 2013Wells Conference CenterUniversity of Maine   The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (GSBSE) the Maine INBRE Network are hosting a day-long bioinformatics workshop on the Ensembl genome browser at the University of Maine on November 15.  Ensembl ([ http://www.ensembl.org/ ]http://www.ensembl.org) is the world’s most comprehensive genome browser that provides automatic annotation […]

The GSBSE celebrates the graduation of the following students: Josh Boucher Ying Chen Karen Dowell Janice Duy Yan Gong Qing He Rachel Kennedy Sarah Sterling   Congratulations to all our students who successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis and graduate this Spring and Summer!

The 2013 GSBSE Annual Meeting will be held September 20 & 21. Mark your calendars! Annual Meeting Information for Faculty and Students:  http://gsbse.umaine.edu/annualmeeting Meeting location:  Wells Conference Center, Orono ME Time:  Friday, 9/20 at 8:00am until Saturday, 9/21 at 2:00pm  

GSBS student Amanda Favreau is the first author on a recent publication in the journal Leukemia Research entitled, “miR-590-5p, miR-219-5p, miR-15b and miR-628-5p are commonly regulated by IL-3, GM-CSF and G-CSF in acute myeloid leukemia.” This manuscript is available online ahead of print. Amanda is a first year GSBS student rotating in the Sathyanarayana Laboratory at […]