Drs. Melissa Maginnis, Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine, and Meghan May, Associate Professor in Microbiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England College of Medicine, will present in the next installment of the popular “Science on Tap” series […]
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Dr. Aric Rogers, Assistant Professor at the MDI Biological Laboratory and affiliated faculty at the GSBSE, recently received a $1,867,500 R01 grant from NIA/NIGMS. Additionally, he published three papers in 2019: Lan J, Rollins JA, Zang X, Wu D, Zou L, Wang Z, Ye C, Wu Z, Kapahi P*, Rogers AN*, Chen D* (2019). Translational Regulation […]
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Jordan Miner won a poster presentation award at New England Biomedical Optics Symposium Oct. 15. The poster was titled Imaging Zebrafish with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using Second Harmonic Generation to Evaluate Myosin Structure. The conference is a primarily post-doc and graduate student event, making this award particularly noteworthy since Jordan Miner is a University of […]
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Jesse Rochester and Sarah Holbrook in the Updike Lab at MDI Biological Laboratory and the Burgess Lab at the Jackson Laboratory, respectively, were featured as co-authors in a recent publication titled “Germline Maintenance Through the Multifaceted Activities of GLH/Vasa in Caenorhabditis elegans P Granules” in the latest publication of the journal Genetics. Sarah Holbrook’s contribution […]
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Misquotations and quotations made without historical context unfairly paint two pioneers in hypertension investigators as flawed in their thinking, according to two University of Maine researchers. Merrill Elias, emeritus professor of psychology and emeritus cooperating professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, and Amanda Goodell, research associate in psychology, have published a […]
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Merrill F Elias, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Emeritus Cooperating Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, has just been appointed to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Hypertension (high blood pressure). He presently also serves on the Board of Editors Hypertension and the Journal of Clinical Medicine. He has served […]
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Dr. Tamara King, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of New England and affiliated faculty in the GSBSE, publishes two publications and invited to two lectures recently in 2019. The publications are: Sannajust, S., Imbert, I., Eaton, V., Henderson, T, Liaw, L, May, M, […]
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Dr. Ryan Logan ’04, ’09G was recently awarded his first career R01 grant as part of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Psychiatry in affiliation with the UPMC. His project is titled “Sleep and Circadian-Dependent Mechanisms Contributing to Opiate Use Disorder and Response to Medication Assisted Treatment”. Dr. Logan graduated from the […]
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) T32 Steering Committee has chosen six current GSBSE PhD students as the first cohort of the UMaine GSBSE NIH T32 Institutional Research Training Grant. The awardees are: Nicklaus Carter, mentor Dr. David Neivandt of the University of Maine Sarah Holbrook, mentor Dr. Greg Cox of the […]
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Jon Bomar, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering degree program, and Director of Employment Concerns for the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS), presented at the Fall 2019 NAGPS Legislative Action Days in Washington DC last weekend. His talk was titled “Fees and Financial Aid in Graduate School.” The conference included two […]
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