March 28, 2026 The Maine Society for Neuroscience will hold its next meeting on March 28, 2026, at the Jackson Laboratory. The event will bring together neuroscientists from across Maine for research presentations, networking, and chapter updates.
The program is expected to begin around 11:00 AM and will feature a keynote address by Dr. Alex Skorput (Dartmouth College), as well as short talks and a poster session. Faculty, students, and postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to attend and present their work.
Registration: https://cvent.me/2m51gGAbstract Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026 (Abstracts may be submitted during registration or emailed to gro.xajnull@naginneh.ixel)
The statewide Biomedical Science & Engineering Symposium will be held Wednesday & Thursday, September 24 & 25 on the University of Southern Maine campus in Hannaford Hall in Portland. This event is hosted by the University of Maine – Institute of Medicine, JAX, MDI Biological Laboratory, MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, the Roux Institute of Northeastern, and University of New England.
*REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS CLOSING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8!*
Registration link
Call for poster abstracts
The symposium will kick off Wednesday at 9:30 am beginning with speaker presentations on neuromodulation & vision (session chair Giovanna Guidoboni, UMaine), with lunchtime poster sessions-judging, and reconvening ...
On April 17, 2025, BioME is organizing their 7th annual BioME Student Showcase, a life science research competition for high school and college students with attractive cash prizes (up to $2,500). The event will be held at the University of Maine in Orono.
We accept projects at all stages (could be an idea, a proposed research project, or a project that the students had been working on for a while), as long as they are focused on the following areas:
Health care / human health
Agriculture / aquaculture or
Environmental / industrial
Both individual and group projects are accepted, however, only 1-2 representatives are allowed to pitch.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: ...
Join us in celebrating the Maine INBRE’s renewal and expansion!
We hope you can join us on the MDI Biological Laboratory campus Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 11 a.m. to celebrate the renewal and expansion of the Maine Biomedical Research Network (INBRE).
Maine Senator Susan Collins will formally announce the major federal award that will propel the program into its next five years of success, with three new members bringing our cohort to 17 Maine institutions.
All members of the Maine INBRE community and its supporters, past or present, are invited to attend.
CELEBRATING THE MAINE INBRE
What: A celebration of the Maine INBRE’s renewal and ...
The Maine Biological & Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS) is a statewide gathering of scientists and students; an opportunity to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration, and network with Maine scientists in a variety of disciplines. This promises to be another wonderful event, and will feature new Maine faculty as well as student research. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Martha Muñoz, an evolutionary biologist from Yale University. If you haven’t registered already, don’t wait! The abstract deadline for this year is Monday, April 8.
Register Here
The annual External Advisory Committee (EAC) Meeting will be held at the Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) on Saturday, March 16, 2024.
Our current EAC members include:
Lucy Liaw, Ph.D., Faculty Scientist III, Center for Molecular Medicine, MaineHealth Research Institute (EAC Chair)
Titus Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis
Andrea Duina, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
Steven Fiering, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Story Landis, Ph.D., Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Intramural Research Program
Investigators and Research Training Faculty currently funded by Maine INBRE will meet with ...
The UMaine Institute of Medicine, along with partner organizations JAX, MDI Biological Laboratory, MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, University of New England, University of Southern Maine, and the Roux Institute, are planning the second Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering for Wednesday – Friday, October 25 – 27, 2023. This year’s symposium will be offering events on mental health, rural health, translational and basic sciences in Collins Center for the Arts, the Hudson Museum and Wells Conference Center.
The call for poster abstracts is now open.
The draft schedule is available for review. PLEASE NOTE: speakers that have confirmed will list an ...
The NIGMS is offering free access to their new Sandbox platform through Maine INBRE. Access includes 12 analysis training modules in different -omics areas, image analysis and data science, as well as access to the computational infrastructure to complete the training.
Contact Bioinformatics Core Co-Director Joel Graber (gro.lbidmnull@rebargj) ASAP to apply for a slot!
NIH/NIGMS Cloud Learning Modules. This repository aims to teach students, researchers, and clinicians, among others, how to utilize the power of cloud technology for the benefit of life sciences applications and research. Types of data used across the modules include but are not limited to genomics, methylomics, transcriptomics, ...
The Northeast Regional Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Conference (NERIC) brings together individuals from IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), IDeA Clinical and Translational Research programs and other IDeA mechanisms from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The NERIC 2023 conference is in Delaware this year on August 16-18 at the ChaseCenter on the Riverfront in Wilmington DE. Attendees will include administrators, faculty, investigators, students and trainees from across the region. During the conference we are excited to offer special professional development sessions that are designed for undergraduate and graduate students and trainees, ...
The Student Summer Symposium will be hosted at MDI Biological Laboratory on Friday, August 4th from 10:30 am- 5 pm. The symposium will start with 5-minute thesis-style talks and close with a poster session highlighting the mentored student research projects that took place over the summer.
Register here to attend the event in person or virtually.
10:30 am-12:00 pm: Session 1 of 5-minute thesis-style presentations
12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Lunch break & poster set up
1:00 pm- 3:30 pm: Session 2 of 5-minute thesis-style presentations
3:30 pm- 4:00 pm: Break & poster set up
4:00 pm-5:00 pm: In-Person Poster Session