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Welcome to our news page! The information on this page is from 2024-2025 and is updated regularly. To find more previous news, please view the subcategories below the featured photos!
Funding and publications
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- February
- Congratulations to lab members Jeremy Juybari, Josh Hamilton, and lab director Andre Khalil on their publication entitled “Context-guided segmentation for histopathologic cancer segmentation”!
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- January
- The lab was rewarded a 3-year $440K grant from the National Cancer Institute (start date January 15th, 2025), titled “Multiscale anisotropy analysis of breast tissue subtypes from mammography and pathology”!
- This work is mostly centered on CompuMAINE lab’s work on the computational analyses of mammograms, but we also successfully proposed an extension of this work to breast tissue analyses from biopsies.
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- October
- Lab members Joshua Hamilton and Andre Khalil collaborated with Caitlin Ellis, Benjamin Tero, Christian Potts, Kimberly Malka, Xuehui Yang, Calvin Vary, and Lucy Liaw to publish “Cellular Characteristics and Protein Signatures of Human Adipose Tissues from Donors With or Without Advanced Coronary Artery Disease”
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- May:
- Congratulations to Lab member Josh Hamilton, lab director Andre Khalil, collaborators Molly Olzinski, Kendra Batchelder, and Karissa Tilbury on their publication titled “Multiscale Computational Analysis of Patient-Matched Multi-Modal Imaging of Breast Tissue Microenvironment”
- Congratulations to Lab member Josh Hamilton, lab director Andre Khalil, collaborators Molly Olzinski, Kendra Batchelder, and Karissa Tilbury on their publication titled “Multiscale Computational Analysis of Patient-Matched Multi-Modal Imaging of Breast Tissue Microenvironment”
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Events and conferences
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- April
- Lab member Jordan Miner presented her research in the Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) Student Showcase Graduate Fast Pitch Competition
- She was awarded third place!
- Lab members Jordan Miner, Josh Hamilton, Mary Wisell, Maren Adnee, Jeremy Juybari, Isabelle Puccio, and Skyler Morse all presented at UMSS 2025!
- Jordan gave an oral presentation titled, “A Prospective Therapeutic Reduces Migration in Metastatic Breast Cancer Driven by Integrin α2β1”
- Josh gave an oral presentation titled, ” Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Using Dense Tissue Stratification and Complementary Texture-Based Approaches”
- Declan presented a poster along with his co-authors Mary, Maren, Josh, and Jeremy, titled, “A Novel Classification Integration for AI Segmentation Models in Digital Pathology”
- Isabelle presented a poster along with her co-author Josh titled, “Color Normalization and Deconvolution Effects on the Anisotropy Analysis of Breast Tissue”
- Skyler Morse presented a poster titled, “Wavelet-based Segmentation Method for Glioblastoma in MRI Scans”
- Read book of abstracts here!
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- December
- Lab director Andre Khalil, and lab member Josh Hamilton presented their work in collaboration with WAVED Medical entitled, “Image-based breast cancer risk assessment based on dense mammographic tissue subtypes” at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
- October
- Lab member Jordan Miner gave an oral presentation entitled, “Developing Collagen-Binding Integrin Knockdown Cell Lines for 3D Breast Cancer Spheroid Migration Models” at the Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD
- September
- Lab members Josh Hamilton and Jordan Miner presented their PhD work at the annual UMaine GSBSE meeting held at the University of Maine
- Josh’s poster presentation was titled, “Quantitative Anisotropy Analysis of the Ductal Connective Tissue Boundary in Breast Cancer Shows Organizational Differences Across Subtypes”
- Jordan’s poster was entitled, “Exploring the Role of Integrin α2β1 in Breast Cancer Progression Using 3D Knockdown Spheroid Migration Models”
- August
- Lab member Isabelle Puccio presented a poster entitled, “An Analysis of Color Normalization and Color Deconvolution in Applications of H&E Stains in Digital Pathology” at the Summer Student Symposium at MDI Biological Laboratory
- June
- Lab member Jordan Miner presented a poster entitled, “Exploring the Role of Integrin α2β1 in Breast Cancer Progression Using 3D Knockdown Spheroid Migration Models” at the Single-Cell Cancer Biology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) at Southern New Hampshire University
- Jordan also attended the associated Gordan Research Seminar (GRS) in conjunction with the GRC
- April
- Lab members Sophia Claudio, Jeremy Juybari, Skyler Morse, Josh Hamilton, and Jordan Miner all presented their research at UMSS 2024!
- Sophia and Jeremy presented their poster titled, “Investigation of Loss Functions for Medical Dataset Imbalance”
- Skyler and Josh presented their poster titled, “Comparing Anisotropy of H&E Stained Breast Tissue Histology Slides Across Differing Color Spaces”
- Josh presented his poster titled, “Enhancing Tumor Microenvironment Analysis Through Combination of Multiscale Anisotropy and Principal Component Analysis”
- Jordan gave an oral presentation entitled, “Developing Integrin α2β1 Knockdown Cell Lines for 3D Breast Cancer Spheroid Migration Models”
- Read book of abstracts here!
- March
- Lab member Jordan Miner presented an oral presentation entitled, “The Impact of a Potential Breast Cancer Therapeutic on Cellular Migration in 3D Spheroid Models” at the second Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering
- Lab member Jeremy Juybari and lab associate Dr. Kendra Batchelder participated in the OPENminds 2024 conference in San Diego, CA
- The team won second place representing WAVED Medical
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Awards and honors
- 2025 NEWS
- May
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving both the Fullbright U.S. student grant, and the STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship!
- These prestigious awards allow Jordan to continue her research abroad in France for the 25-26 academic year and a portion of the 26-27 academic year
- Read more about the Fullbright here!
- Read more about the Chateaubriand here!
- April
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving third place in the Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) Student Showcase Graduate Fast Pitch Competition!
- March
- Lab member Isabelle Puccio was awarded a CUGR MSCG Summer Research award for her proposal titled, “Color Normalization and Deconvolution Effects on the Anisotropy Analysis of Invasive vs Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Tissue Samples”
- February
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on being awarded the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship!
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- November
- Lab member Skyler Morse was awarded a CUGR and NSF Academic Year Fellowship for his proposal titled, “Wavelet-based Segmentation Method for Glioblastoma in MRI Scans”
- May
- Congratulations to lab member Josh Hamilton on being featured in a Mainebiz article!
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- April
- Congratulations to lab member Jordan Miner on receiving the Dean of the Graduate School Undergraduate Mentoring Award!
- Lab associate Dr. Kendra Batchelder received The Rising Star Award from the University of Maine Foster Center.
- The award honors a recent UMaine graduate who has seen rapid growth and success in an entrepreneurial venture and inspires other young innovators through courage and enthusiasm.
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- March
- Lab member Isabelle Puccio was awarded a Maine INBRE Summer Fellowship
- Lab member Skyler Morse was awarded a CUGR Summer Fellowship for his proposal titled, “2.5D’ Wavelet-based Segmentation of Brain Tumors”
- Lab member Jeremy Juybari and lab associate Dr. Kendra Batchelder participated in the OPENminds 2024 conference in San Diego, CA
- The team won second place representing WAVED Medical
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- January
- Lab member Josh Hamilton received a student spotlight by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine!
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