• COBRE Seminar: Dissecting the function of the fetal blood stem cell niche

    Norman Smith Hall 107

    Speaker:  Elliott Hagedorn, Ph.D. About the speaker:  Elliott Hagedorn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. His research group utilizes a combination of genetics, genomics and advanced live cell imaging in zebrafish to study how cells and particles in the bloodstream move into and out of […]

  • COBRE Seminar: Building, Rebuilding, and Reconnecting: Neural and Appendage Regeneration

    Norman Smith Hall 107

    Speaker: Lauren Walker, PhD. Assistant Professor Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College About the speaker: Lauren has always been fascinated with how we build, maintain, and regenerate complex structures like the nervous system. She studied degeneration as a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis with Aaron DiAntonio and then […]

  • 2026 UMaine COBRE Retreat

    UMaine Portland Gateway 300 Fore Street, Portland, ME, United States

    The fourth UMaine COBRE Retreat will take place on November 6 - 8 , at the UMaine Gateway office in Portland, Maine. This invite-only event gathers senior personnel, project and core leaders, mentors, and advisory committee members for research updates, group discussions, and individualized feedback from the External Advisory Committee. Travel, meals, and accommodations will […]

  • COBRE Seminar: Immune regulation of zebrafish kidney regeneration

    Norman Smith Hall 107

    Speaker: Iain Drummond PhD, Professor and Scientific Director, MDIBL About the speaker:  Iain Drummond received his PhD from UC Berkeley and went on to postdoc at Northwestern University Medical School and University of Chicago working on cell signaling and gene expression. As faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the 1990’s, Dr. Drummond initiated […]

  • COBRE Seminar: Dual Roles for G Proteins in the Cellular Geometry of Hearing and Balance

    Norman Smith Hall 107

    Speaker: Basile Tarchini, Ph.D. Professor, The Jackson Laboratory Biography: Basile Tarchini is a Professor at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and an affiliated research faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine. He grew up in Switzerland and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva with Denis Duboule, using mouse genetics to decipher […]