Vision
Make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Mission
Foster broad-based environmental genetics collaborations, partnerships, and infrastructure that contribute to the sustainability of current and future natural resource industries and agriculture, improve human health and wellbeing, and prepare a technologically skilled workforce.
Message from the Director
Welcome to the website of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment, or MCGE as we often call it. The Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment (MCGE) was formed in 2019 as a sustainability element of the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Maine-eDNA Program (NSF #OIA-1849227). The center was founded around a vision to make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them. I like to say that environmental genetics is a scientific bridge…
Maine Research News
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‘The Maine Question’ examines past, future of UMaine engineering with Dana Humphrey
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Andre Khalil’s research uses imaging techniques to transcend disciplines
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Kendra Batchelder: An interdisciplinary Ph.D. that was meant to be
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McGillicuddy Humanities Center welcomes four new undergraduate fellows for fall 2022
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MBS’ Percival Carter, Welcomer awarded $292K Small Business Administration grant for BARD program
Maine-eDNA News
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Maine-eDNA Introduces New EOD Project Manager
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Using eDNA to Understand Environment, Community, and Maine’s Marine Economy with Phoebe Jekielek
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The eDNA CORE Lab and Building Maine’s Research Capacity
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Building Methodologies and Exploring the Possibilities of Sedimentary Environmental DNA
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Maine-eDNA Announces New Open to Collaborate Notice