Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

Two Discovery Phase Proteomics Workshops for either faculty members or graduate students/postdocs in IDeA states are being offered. The faculty member workshop will be held on May 24-26, 2017, in Little Rock.  The student workshop will be held on May 17-19th, in Little Rock. Lodging and travel will be covered. The information for how to apply […]

Date: Friday, April 7, 2017Time: 3:10pmPlace: 107 Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine campus, Orono Speaker: Ashley Webb, Ph.D. of Brown University The goal of our work is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurogenesis and the decline in neural stem cell function (NSC) during aging. We are investigating how transcription factor networks regulate NSC […]

Elisabeth Kilroy presented “A Day in the Life of a Graduate Researcher” at the 2017 Maine Science Festival. GSBSE Director David Neivandt moderated the session to over 150 middle school students. Other presenters were … Lila Lyons, Undergraduate ResearcherGrace McKenzie, EMTKelley Strout, NurseCaitlin Howell, Faculty ResearcherTom Courtney, Doctor https://youtu.be/iyJN52WSocg

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!