GSBS Student Kim Brothers and her mentor Rob Wheeler recently had a paper published in the journal Eukaryotic Cell. The paper is entitled “Live Imaging of disseminated candidiasis in zebrafish reveals role of phagocyte oxidase in limiting filamentous growth”. Congratulations! Article Summary: Yeast infections are experienced by 3/4 of women, and the most common cause is […]
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Dr. Carol Bult of The Jackson Laboratory and mentor of GSBS Student Jill Recla (Functional Genomics) has been granted a 2-year award in the amount of $250,000. Work on this project will proceed this fall. The funded project is a follow-up to Jill’s thesis project. The grant is entitled “Systems Genetics of Chronic Pain”. The primary […]
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Please mark your calendars now for next year’s Annual Meeting: September 14 & 15, 2012 Wells Conference Center, Orono ME
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Friday, September 9Wells Conference Center, Orono, ME8:00 p.m. Enhancing Stem Cell Regenerative Potential in Aging and Transplantation Dr. Amy J. Wagers, Harvard University Skeletal muscle is a highly specialized tissue composed of non-dividing, multi-nucleated muscle fibers, aswell as specialized muscle-forming stem cells (satellite cells) that remain associated with muscle fibersand are responsible for muscle growth […]
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The GSBS Annual Meeting will be held in Orono Maine on September 9 & 10, 2011. It will be held in the Wells Conference Center on the University of Maine Campus. The meeting will begin at 8:00am on Friday, September 9 and will conclude on Saturday, September 10 at noon.
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GSBS student Joshua Boucher will have his first 1st author publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The article, entitled “THE miR-143/145 CLUSTER IS A NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL TARGET OF JAGGED-1/NOTCH SIGNALING IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS” will apear in the journal’s August edition. Congratulations, Josh! An abstract is provided below for more information. ————————— Abstract: THE miR-143/145 […]
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Title: Advances in Localization Microscopy Speaker: Sam Hess, The University of Maine When: Monday, June 6, 2011 9:00 am Where: UMaine, Fogler Library Media Services (Video Conference room at the back of Fogler library (1st floor); Jackson Lab IMB conference room, and KIP University of Heidelberg. Also select video locations at University of Virginia, MIHGH, MDIBL, […]
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The newly-formed Maine chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) held its first annual meeting at Bates College on April 23, 2011. Over 75 neuroscience faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates from around the state of Maine participated in the daylong event. Dr. Guoping Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered the external keynote address […]
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Diana Romero PhD, and co-authors including Kira Young, a GSBS student at the University of Maine, have published the findings of their research in the journal “Cancer Research”. The article is entitled “Endoglin regulates cancer-stromal cell interactions in prostate tumors.” The work was conducted in the laboratory of GSBS faculty member Calvin Vary, PhD at […]
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GSBS student, Jacquelyn Ames, has been selected to receive the 2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Scholar-in-Training award for the poster she will be presenting at the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research meeting this April. Poster Title and Authors: Regulation of inflammation and tumor growth by the novel XL313 cryptic ECM element. Jacquelyn J. Ames, […]
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