The University of Maine has announced that Dr. Melissa Maginnis has been promoted to full professor, effective July 1, 2026. The promotion recognizes her accomplishments in research, teaching, and service at the university. Maginnis is a microbiologist and virologist in UMaine’s Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences whose research focuses on how viruses infect cells […]
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Associate Professor Romain Madelaine, Ph.D., doctoral candidate Romain Menard, and colleagues at the MDI Biological Laboratory have developed a new transgenic zebrafish model to study muscle atrophy, a condition associated with aging and neuromuscular disease. In a study published in PLOS Genetics, the research team describes the creation of the “atrofish,” a zebrafish engineered to […]
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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 […]
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