Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

Sarah has received a prestigous NIH fellowship, F31DK112602 “Smad-WNT crosstalk in renal dysplasia”. Sarah conducts her research in the laboratory of Dr. Leif Oxburgh at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, Maine. Congratulations Sarah! https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/fellowships/F31

Kathy has received a prestigous NIH fellowship, F31NS098540 “A personalized gene therapy approach for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease”. Kathy conducts her research in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Burgess at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Congratulations Kathy! https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/fellowships/F31

Emily has received a prestigous NIH fellowship, F31 NS 100328 “Transcriptional and Translational Profiling of Motor Neurons in two Mouse Models of Charot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2D. Emily conducts her research in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Burgess at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Congratulations Emily! https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/fellowships/F31

The admissions committee is currently reviewing applications for Fall 2017. The deadline for submission of materials is Sunday, January 1st. If you have any questions about admissions, please contact Tammy Crosby at tammy.crosby@maine.edu. The admissions committee process is … 1) review application materials2) admissions committee member(s) contact applicant via email to setup a phone/skype interview […]

Ginny will be presenting “Type 1 interferon signaling in morphine-potentiated LP-BM5 murine AIDS”. Congratulations Ginny. http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/presentation/24816

Lindsey Fitzsimons, M.S., R.C.E.P., C.E.P., a Ph.D. student from the University of Maine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, has recently been selected to deliver a lecture at the European Molecular Biology Organization conference on Primary Cilia in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 6, 2016.  Her talk is entitled “Primary cilia of cardiac neural crest […]

The 2016 Annual Meeting Awards announced … Oral Presentations1st Place, Sri Pullagura2nd Place, Erin Carter3rd Place, Emily Spaulding Poster Presentations1st Place, Lindsey Fitzsimons2nd Place, Ian Gans3rd Place, Carolina Figueroa Service AwardsFaculty, Lucy LiawStudent, Kathy MorelliStaff, Tammy Crosby Congratulations to everyone on their great presentations!

Christopher J. Demers ,  Prabakaran Soundararajan ,  Phaneendra Chennampally ,  Gregory A. Cox ,  James Briscoe , Scott D. Collins ,  Rosemary L. Smith   Embryogenesis is a highly regulated process in which the precise spatial and temporal release of soluble cues directs differentiation of multipotent stem cells into discrete populations of specialized adult cell […]

The Rieger Lab seeks a motivated postdoctoral research fellow, to begin immediately. The Rieger Lab investigates mechanisms of cutaneous sensory axon de- and regeneration utilizing in vivo imaging in zebrafish and cell culture models. The lab aims to analyze mechanisms of sensory axon regeneration under conditions of chemotherapy and/or skin injury with emphasis on the […]

The MDI Biological Laboratory seeks a highly motivated research assistant to join the laboratory of Assistant Professor, Vicki P. Losick. The primary focus of this position will be to carry out experiments investigating the molecular mechanisms controlling wound healing in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster. For mroe info please visit  https://mdibl.org/about/careers/Show less