The University of Maine has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from outside the cells, from the impact of persistent viral infections […]
Category: Research
SMCC Students Learn Microscopy and Quantitative PCR at INBRE Research Experience
In the five-day residential research course held during January winter break, students learned to use microscopy and quantitative PCR, a process to help understand biological pathways and diseases, to detect Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia (BTN) in steamer clams. Students also introduced a gene through transfection for green fluorescent protein into a eukaryotic marine parasite that affects […]
Research Opportunities for Maine – presented by Dr. Clifford Rosen, MaineHealth Research Institute
Cliff Rosen, M.D., is the co-PI of the Northern New England CTR Network and the Director of the Center for Clinical & Translational Research at MaineHealth Research Institute. He spoke about research initiatives at MaineHealth and opportunities for Maine at a recent Science Cafe hosted by the MDI Biological Laboratory. Watch his talk here: […]
Outstanding Student Poster Awards at the Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering
Congratulations to the ten Maine students receiving awards for outstanding posters at the recent Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering, held on October 13-15, 2022. About 85 students presented posters, representing undergraduate and graduate programs at INBRE schools throughout our state. We are grateful to faculty and industry leaders across multiple universities, biomedical and […]
Bates Fellow Researches Salamander Genes
Bates College junior Rebecca Anderson, a double major in biochemistry and math, studied regeneration and regenerative medicine during a summer internship at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, funded by Maine INBRE at Bates. She worked with Joel Graber, Ph.D., a senior staff scientist and director of the computational biology and bioinformatics core at MDIBL. […]
Bowdoin INBRE Student Wins Poster Award at International Conference
INBRE-Funded Investigator and Bowdoin College faculty member Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt took her undergraduate researchers to the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society’s annual conference in Scotland earlier this year. Congratulations to senior Seneca Ellis who came home with a poster award! Read the details here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2022/07/bowdoins-honeycutt-takes-students-to-neuroscience-conference-in-scotland.html […]
Cloud Computing 101
There’s a good chance that by now, many of you have heard of “cloud computing.” You might have even read the recent news about the project carried out by the Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core under the auspices of the NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative. So what is cloud […]
49th Maine Biological and Medical Science Symposium
Over 170 students, postdoctoral fellows, and scientists are registered to attend what is believed to be the oldest and largest gathering of life science practitioners in the state. The event features scientists from the MDI Biological Laboratory, The Jackson Laboratory, The Roux Institute, IDEXX and Maine’s academic institutions. The 49th annual Maine Biological and Medical […]
Grant award seeks to advance cloud computing in Maine
Dr. Ben King (University of Maine), Co-Director of the INBRE Bioinformatics Core, shares his research with Dr. Jon Lorsch, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) The NIH, through its STRIDES program, has engaged the Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core to collaborate in a pilot project with an ultimate goal of developing a method […]
Research to Reveal the Neural Basis of Trauma
Bowdoin College recently ran a great story about INBRE Project Leader Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt’s research. Read here. […]