UMaine Institute of Medicine

Speaker: Clarissa Henry, Ph.D. Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, Director, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering About the Speaker: The goal of my research program is to understand how dynamic interactions between cells and their extracellular matrix mediate morphogenesis, and how disruption of cell-matrix interactions leads to disease states. Aberrant cell-matrix interactions cause […]

Intermedia Programs and the Institute of Medicine invite you to a virtual Arts and Humanities in Medicine lecture. Speaker: Dr. Hermann Haller, President of MDI Biological Laboratory Title: Medical Rounds in the Museum: Representation of Science and Medicine in Paintings Contact: For event link, please email Augusta Sparks Farnum: augusta.farnum@maine.edu

Speakers: Lenard W. Kaye, D.S.W., Ph.D., Director, UMaine Center on Aging, Professor, UMaine School of Social Work Clifford Milo Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF, Chief of Geriatric Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry at Acadia Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center About the Seminar: This seminar will consider the unprecedented negative impacts that COVID-19 has had on older […]

Speaker: Sam Hess, Ph.D. Professor of Physics / Cooperating Professor of Chemistry, University of Maine About the seminar:  Super-resolution microscopy has enabled entirely new approaches to understanding biological systems, and was recognized in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We use FPALM (S.T. Hess et al. Biophysical Journal, 2006) to explore the mechanisms of influenza […]