News Archives - Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)

Seminar: Germline regulation of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response

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 […]

COBRE retreat agenda

The COBRE retreat will take place on the University of Maine Orono campus on October 24 & 25, 2024. Full agenda and list of participants

Student in the Henry lab awarded an NIH Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award

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 […]

The Talbot Lab finds strength in collaborative research

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 […]

COBRE project leaders and students present at the NISBRE conference

The National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) conference was held June 16-19 in Washington DC. Clarissa Henry, director for the UMaine Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), project leaders Ben King, Jared Talbot, Romain Madeleine, and MIAC core director Robert Wheeler attended the conference. The event featured closed meetings for IDeA COBRE, INBRE, […]

UMaine COBRE announces seed grant awardees for 2023-24

January 8, 2024 The University of Maine Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) has awarded seed funding to support pilot projects from three early career faculty during the 2023-24 academic year and through April 1, 2025. The seed funding from UMaine COBRE’s pilot project program will help awardees secure instruments and other supplies for their […]

UMaine awarded $11.3 million from NIH to support biomedical research

The University of Maine has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from outside the cells, from the impact of persistent […]