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
- Rodrigo Vargas, founder of American Vinegar Works, was recently featured in Forbes for his work modernizing historical fermentation of vinegar. To bridge the gap between […]
- Earth.com highlighted a new computer model that identifies potential threats to more than 10,000 freshwater species worldwide. Encouragingly, the majority of species accounted for in […]
- The Portland Press Herald featured Jeremy Juybari, a recent Ph.D. graduate in electrical and computer engineering, and Josh Hamilton, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, […]
- From potato farms to global shipping lanes, ideas from Maine’s R&D department are making an impact Mainers are known for their Yankee ingenuity, and researchers […]
- In the years since the Netflix series “Bridgerton” burst onto the scene, it has become a cultural phenomenon, a runaway success featuring Regency-era romance and […]
- Whether it’s redfin pickerel in the Kennebec River or sturgeon in the Great Lakes, nearly one-third of freshwater fish species are facing possible extinction, threatening […]
- Walk into any grocery store and you will find aisle after aisle of food wrapped in a host of different plastics. Concern about chemicals and […]
- Newsweek featured a University of Maine report on hazing amid recent footage of an incident at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at the University of […]
