photo credit UMaine Maine INBRE Data Science Core Co-Director Benjamin King, Ph.D., recently received UMaine’s first National Institutes of Health R16 award, providing $400,000 in direct funding over four years to study whether a system in the body best known for regulating blood pressure also affects how the immune system responds to influenza. Read […]
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Project Leader Emily Spaulding Awarded a MIRA Grant
Congratulations to INBRE Project Leader and assistant professor at the MDI Biological Lab, Emily Spaulding, Ph.D., who has received a $2.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how cells organize one of their most important and active internal structures — the nucleolus — and what happens when that organization breaks […]
Student Outcome Highlights: UNE
by Julie Moulton, Assistant Scientist II at the University of New England (UNE) In 2015, I made the decision to change careers and return to school to study biology. Early in that journey, Dr. Elizabeth Ehrenfeld (the former INBRE network coordinator at Southern Maine Community College) encouraged me to apply for an INBRE undergraduate research […]
Data Science Core Hosts First Maine IDeA Data Science Conference
Poster session at the Maine IDeA Data Science Conference. Organizer Joel Graber, Ph.D., at center. The INBRE Data Science Core organized the first Maine IDeA Data Science Conference, held February 27-28 at MDI Biological Laboratory. A diverse array of over 60 faculty and students from 15 Maine institutions (plus a few experts from other states) […]
Call for Abstracts – Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS)
The abstract submission deadline for the 53rd annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS) is April 6, 2026. The event will be held on April 24-25 on the MDI Biological Laboratory campus. Dr. Jay Storz, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska, will provide the keynote address on Friday evening. The program […]
Research Training Courses Kick Off 2026
Now 17 institutions strong, the Maine INBRE is a momentum-maker for biomedical research statewide Maine INBRE kicked off 2026 with a rollout of three residential training courses for Maine undergraduates at MDI Biological Laboratory. It began, on January 4th, with worms. Highly regenerative planarian flatworms, to be precise — the research model that a dozen […]
From Student to Scientist: My INBRE Fellowship Journey
Georgia Burton, a senior at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, attended a research-intensive short course in January 2025 through the INBRE program at UMFK, and was subsequently awarded a summer fellowship (SURF). Her experience in the Updike lab at MDI Biological Laboratory set the groundwork for her plans to pursue a future […]
‘An Amazing Early-Career Grant’ – INBRE-funded scientists at Colby
<photo credit Colby College> How Maine INBRE, a collaborative network of Maine educational and research institutions, supports Colby scientists Inside Colby science labs, a chemistry professor is taking a deep dive into the origin of life on earth, a biology professor is searching for ways to prevent age-related muscle atrophy, while another biology professor is […]
College of the Atlantic and partners win $50k to develop PFAS filters for coastal waters
Maine INBRE Outreach Director Professor Jane Disney, Ph.D., an associate professor at MDI Biological Laboratory, and partners at Northern Tilth, Maine Laboratories, College of the Atlantic, and Northeastern’s Roux Institute were awarded $50,000 in the Life Sciences Impact Forum held at the Institute earlier this fall. Together they will develop “Biochar Bags” to reduce or […]
Light Microscopy Facility Wins Imaging Awards
Images created in the Light Microscopy Facility (LMF) at MDI Biological Laboratory recently received prominent awards. (left) Analyst Hannah Somers’ image of a zebrafish’s vasculature was recognized in the international Nikon Small World Competition 2025 (and featured by National Geographic) (right) INBRE Collaborative Research Resources Core and the LMF’s Director, Frederic Bonnet, Ph.D., took the […]