Maine INBRE has directly supported 64 faculty research projects since its inception, including 54 early-career scientists, 33% of whom have “graduated” from the INBRE program by achieving independent funding to support their research.
How to Acknowledge INBRE Support
Each year, INBRE supports research and pilot projects conducted by faculty throughout the state of Maine, enabling early career scientists to seek independent funding for their research, and teaching-focused faculty to provide robust research opportunities for their students. Projects study a range of biomedical issues in physiology, toxicology, and molecular and cellular developmental biology, among other areas of focus.
A Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to apply for research or pilot project funding is released annually.
Maine INBRE also participates in the NorthEast Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, which is a regional effort to facilitate cyber-enabled collaborative research among the Northeast Regional IDeA States: Delaware, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The NEBC has worked collaboratively to characterize the genome of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea, in the Skate Genome Project.
Current Research Projects
Catalysis of early metabolic pathways as a form of hereditary during a possible emergence of life from hydrothermal vents
Investigating the Kingella kingae Type IV Pili Response to Host-Derived Stimuli
Unveiling the BAR “code” of srGAPs through phospholipid targeting, curvature preferences and actin regulation in the control of cellular protrusions
Current Pilot Projects
Characterizing Human-Disease Mutations in the Essential RNA Exosome with Budding Yeast
Integrating computational and neural methods to identify explore-exploit tradeoffs in memory search
