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 […]
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NorthEast DSC Collaborative Courses, Workshops, Symposia
Bioinformatics T3: Train-the-Trainer Course, June 2023, MDI Biological Laboratory Reproducible and FAIR Bioinformatics Analysis of Omics Data, July 2023, MDI Biological Laboratory Bioinformatics T3: Train-the-Trainer Course, June 2022, MDI Biological Laboratory Reproducible and FAIR Bioinformatics Analysis of Omics Data, July 2022, MDI Biological Laboratory Reproducible and FAIR Bioinformatics Analysis of Omics Data, July 2021, MDI […]
USM-UMaine Institute of Medicine Research Partnership
Catherine Miller, PhD, University of Southern Maine A research collaboration between the University of Maine Institute of Medicine and faculty at USM has led to substantial professional and academic growth, particularly for early-career researchers. Participants gained direct access to cutting-edge laboratory resources, expert mentorship, and new interdisciplinary collaborations that significantly expanded their research capacity. These […]
INBRE Student Alum Featured in The New York Times
+ MDI Bio Lab alum’s work profiled in The New York Times. Groundbreaking work by MDI Bio Lab alum Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D., was profiled this month in the Times. Jayasundara got his first taste of biomedical research as a Maine INBRE student at MDI Bio Lab in 2001. More recently he’s been a Visiting Scientist here, and […]
Data Science Core Publishes Cloud-based Training Work
Ryan Seaman and Joel Graber, Ph.D.: A cloud-based training module for efficient de novo transcriptome assembly using Nextflow and Google cloud. Big data analysis is steadily moving away from local servers and into the Cloud. The INBRE Data Science Core is playing a role in the biomedical world’s transition. Read more. […]
INBRE Investigator Sally Molloy Awarded an R15 Grant
Congratulations to University of Maine associate professor Sally Molloy, Ph.D., who has been awarded a $432,000 R15 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences based on the research funded by her INBRE award. Novel research on prophage at UMaine INBRE Project Leaders co-chair NERIC session […]
Postdoc Job Opening at MDI Biological Laboratory
Job Summary: The MDI Biological Laboratory seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to work in the laboratory of Assistant Professor, Vicki Losick. The Losick lab studies the cell and molecular mechanism of wound repair using the fruit fly, Drosophila, as a model. The lab has found that healing is not a one-size-fits-all process. While […]