The first Maine IDeA Meeting was organized by INBRE Director Dr. James Coffman and took place on August 13 via zoom. The PIs from the COBREs at the University of New England (UNE), Maine Medical Center Research Institute (MMCRI), and the MDI Biological Laboratory (MDIBL); the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research (NNE-CTR) at MMCRI […]
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Full-Circle: Student Returns to Maine as INBRE-Funded Assistant Professor
We welcome Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt in her return to Maine as an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bowdoin College and newly-funded INBRE investigator. As an undergraduate student at Colby College, she began her research career in the neuroscience lab of former INBRE Project Leader Melissa Glenn, Ph.D. The first in her family to attend college, Dr. Honeycutt […]
Virtual Training Offers SMCC Students Experimental Design Experience
Eleven students and two faculty members from Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) spent one week of their winter break this January in an intensive course focused on computational skills, bioinformatics and limb regeneration in axolotls. The course was led by INBRE Bioinformatics Core Director Joel Graber, Ph.D. and James Godwin, Ph.D., an assistant professor at MDI […]
Recent Research Findings Published
Work done by INBRE students from UMaine at Fort Kent and Presque Isle during an INBRE short course has contributed to a paper published in the journal Genetics in February 2021. The article describes several new tools for rapid CRISPR-mediated labeling of proteins that may substantially increase the speed, efficiency, and ease of in vivo microscopy studies in C. elegans. The undergraduate student […]
Two Maine Students Named Goldwater Scholars
Out of an estimated pool of over 1,250 college sophomores and juniors who were nominated by their institutions, 410 college students from across the United States were awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year. Two of the students are affiliated with Maine INBRE at Maine institutions. Jacob Cote, University of MaineMentors: Current INBRE Project Leader Dr. […]
Bailey West Named Valedictorian
Bailey West, a biochemistry major from Stockton Springs, has been named valedictorian and outstanding graduating student at the University of Maine. As an undergraduate in the Honors College at UMaine, she participated in the phage genomics course with INBRE Project Leader Sally Malloy and received an INBRE summer fellowship in 2019 to work in the laboratory […]
Dr. Banks Named as Inspiring Black Scientist
Congratulations to INBRE Project Leader and Bates assistant professor Lori Banks, Ph.D., who has been cited as one of 1,000 inspiring black scientists in the United States by Cell Mentor, a resource that supports and empowers early-career researchers. Bank’s INBRE-supported research explores the biochemical features of viroporin proteins from pathogenic viruses, like rotavirus, with the potential to impact prevention […]
INBRE Students Win Top Awards at MBMSS
The 48th annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium took place virtually on April 28-30, 2021, offering a platform to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration, and network with Maine scientists and students. The event included online poster and speaker sessions and a career panel for students, as well as a panel on COVID-related research throughout the […]
Sharing Core Equipment Enables New Research
INBRE Project Leader Dr. Timothy Breton and three undergraduate students from the University of Maine at Farmington visited the MDI Biological Laboratory in November to use the cryostat room to conduct in situ hybridization experiments. “This was the first time that the University of Maine at Farmington has ever attempted such an experiment, and it would not have been […]
Collaborative Bioinformatics Training
While bioinformatics, the science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data, has become an essential tool in biology, the potential for extracting information vastly exceeds the number of biologists skilled at mining it. The Bioinformatics Core has as its primary mission the goal to help scientists gain skills at data mining. The Core leverages relevant skills and […]