Cameron Bains is a third-year biochemistry major in the Honors College at UMaine. During the 2025 Winter break, she took part in the Honors tutorial course held at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL). This week-long course, The Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease, offered a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in biomedical research. […]
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NIH/NIGMS Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE grant P20GM144265) in Extracellular Regulation of Cellular Behavior 2025 Call for Pilot Projects. Overview This pilot project program will provide seed money for additional innovative research projects related to the theme of cellular signaling in response to extracellular cues. One Pilot project will be chosen for funding for […]
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On behalf of the Graduate Executive Committee, the Graduate School announced the recipients and alternates for the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowships and George Davis Chase Distinguished Research Assistantships for AY 2025-26. Congratulations to all the recipients as well as all the outstanding graduate students who were nominated for these awards. Two students supported by […]
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The Madelaine Lab is exploring the zebrafish’s self-healing powers. Can we apply them to humans? Zebrafish have a superpower: the ability to regenerate damaged tissues—eyes included! Now, the research group of Romain Madelaine, Ph.D., is making groundbreaking explorations of these regenerative feats, work that could lead to new approaches to disorders such as macular degeneration, […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2024-25 academic year fellowship awardees. This year’s awards were supported by CUGR, Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Maine EPSCoR office (through an NSF award), EPIC program, and UMaine Space (through a Maine Space Grant Consortium […]
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Dr Melissa Maginnis, Associate Professor of Microbiology and COBRE project leader, was asked by Admissions to be a recruiter for student athletes interested in STEM careers. The University of Maine women’s soccer program is on a roll, winning the last two America East Championships (2023 & 2024) and participating in the NCAA Tournament.Four of the […]
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November 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Free Speaker: Suzanne Angeli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maine. Dr. Angeli is mentored by COBRE faculty. About the speaker: I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana to Honduran-immigrant parents. I received my B.S. in Cell and Molecular biology. I attended graduate school at […]
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The COBRE retreat will take place on the University of Maine Orono campus on October 24 & 25, 2024. Full agenda and list of participants
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October 10, 2024 Grad Student Spotlight, Graduate School, GSBSE, IMPACT Newsletter, Medicine, Research News The National Institutes of Health awarded University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Amanda Ignacz the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award. This nationally competitive award honors and invests in pre-doctoral students by helping them obtain research training while conducting their dissertation research. Enrolled in […]
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Science is often portrayed as a solo researcher working long into the night in the pursuit of their world changing result, but we feel that this doesn’t reflect what actually happens, especially not in the Talbot Lab. Our group focuses on research that advances understanding of how muscles are positioned in the body and how […]
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