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:
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Continue reading →2023 Student Summer Fellowship Program open for applications
The 2023 Student Summer Fellowship Program is now open for applications.
The fellowship program, which provides 10-week mentored research experiences to undergraduate students enrolled at INBRE partner institutions around Maine, is scheduled to run May 31st-August 5th.
Contact:
Hannah Lust, Ph.D., (gro.lbidmnull@tsulh
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MDI Biological LaboratoryOutstanding 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 healthcare organizations who took the time to judge posters and discuss research projects with students. The full list of awards and abstracts is posted on the Awards/Abstracts tab.
Graduate student awards
- Ashley Soucy GSBSE/MaineHealth Institute for Research
RAB27a-mediated regulation of the vascular microenvironment - Madison Mueth GSBSE/UNE
Sex differences in susceptibility to develop advanced osteoarthritis pain - Sam Costa GSBSE/MaineHealth Institute for Research
PD-L1 Expression Promotes Bone Marrow Immunosuppression and Bone Loss with Diet-Induced Obesity - Bailey Blair GSBSE/University of Maine
Uncovering Candida albicans Factors that Modulate the Host Phagocyte Response - Brianna Gurdon GSBSE/JAX
Brain-wide spatial analysis reveals cell-type-specific genetic modifiers of Alzheimer’s disease progression - Mubarak Khlewee University of Maine
The influence of heat and mass transfer on the setting rate of adhesives between porous substrates - Ines Khiara University of Maine
Engineering the Development of Neuromuscular Circuitry On-Chip
Undergraduate student awards
- Lucia O’Sullivan Bowdoin College
Using Artificial Intelligence Software to Investigate the Effects of Early-Life Adversity on Anxiety-Like Behavior - Sydney Bonauto Bowdoin College
Leveraging rat ultrasonic vocalization playback to expose sex-specific outcomes following early life adversity
Clinical poster award
- Vrushabh Daga University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
The Impact of Prophylactic Ceftriaxone Treatment on Antimicrobial Resistance Development by Colonizing Microbes
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First Annual Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering
- Ashley Soucy GSBSE/MaineHealth Institute for Research
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. With fellow scientists worldwide, Graber is researching the axolotl, a Mexican salamander that has the astonishing ability to regrow limbs and major organs.
Understanding the salamander’s ability to regenerate can help researchers “improve human wound healing and tissue scarring,” says Anderson.
She focused on developing a search tool that allows researchers to identify orthologs, genes that are derived from the same gene in a common ancestor. Specifically, researchers hope to find axolotl genes within the human genome and other commonly studied organisms.
Anderson got to talk with faculty and graduate students about their journeys and, at the end of her fellowship, gave a community-wide presentation as part of the Student Summer Symposium at MDIBL. That helped her to “communicate science effectively to a lot of different audiences.”
“It’s been really cool to see all these different areas of science that I can be a part of, and think about what I want to do in the future.”
photo credit to Phyllis Graber Jensen, Bates College
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →Newsletter: Maine INBRE News – May 2022
Maine INBRE in its 22nd Year – Looking Back and Ahead
As the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (ME-INBRE) enters its 22nd year (and the fourth of the current five-year funding cycle) it is exciting to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and how we are positioned to further augment and expand biomedical research excellence in Maine. This National Institutes of Health (NIGMS) funded Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program began in 2001 …
Summer Undergraduate Fellowships Awarded
The INBRE Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program selected 17 fellows to receive mentored research fellowships for 2022. In addition to mentored lab research, the students will participate in bioinformatics workshops, translational medicine lectures, a Communicating Science course, as well as responsible conduct of research training.
Congratulations to the awardees and their mentors:
2022 INBRE Undergraduate Fellows Mentors Rebecca Anderson Bates College Dr. Joel Graber MDIBL Derry Bessette UMaine Fort Kent Dr. Colleen O’Loughlin Bates College Sydney Bonauto Bowdoin College Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt Bowdoin College Natalie Chalfant Southern Maine Community College Dr. Melody Neely University of Maine Marcus Cobleigh UMaine Machias Dr. Prayag Murawala MDIBL Emily Cornell du Houx Southern Maine Community College Dr. Jason Pellettieri Keene State College Allison French UMaine Farmington Dr. James Godwin MDIBL Nina Greeley Bates College Dr. James Godwin The Jackson Laboratory Esther Jeon Colby College Dr. Dustin Updike MDIBL Adel Misherghi College of the Atlantic Dr. Chris Baker The Jackson Laboratory Jeni Nganzobo UMaine Machias Dr. Melody Neely University of Maine Aiden Pike UMaine Honors College Dr. Joel Graber MDIBL Sona Sahakyan Colby College Dr. Marnie Halpern Dartmouth College Lenka Slamova College of the Atlantic Dr. Ron Korstanje The Jackson Laboratory Kailee Sprague UMaine Presque Isle Dr. Jarod Talbot University of Maine Lindsey Stover UMaine Honors College Dr. Robert Wheeler University of Maine Xenobia Weber Bowdoin College Dr. Hadley Horch Bowdoin College 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 computing? In an uncharacteristic burst of brevity (for me), I’m going to give you the answer quickly, and then you can keep reading if you want more details …
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