The website PhysOrg noted a UMaine news release about the announcement that UMaine immunologist Carol Kim is part of an $11 million NIH grant to Dartmouth Medical School for the study of the effects of low levels of arsenic on immune response. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine’s participation in Cod Academy, a Maine Aquaculture Association program which trains fishermen to be fish farmers, was noted in a radio program on the Voice of America. UMaine has collaborated with MAA on Cod Academy, which took place earlier this year for the first time. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will lead off the first in a series of interdisciplinary research workshops of the 2011-2012 academic year on Friday, Sept. 9 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union.
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The effects of low levels of arsenic — like those in drinking water — on a healthy innate immune response and one compromised by the gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis will be the focus of research at the University of Maine funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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The National Science Foundation Science360 science news Web site features a UMaine research project on Monday, Aug. 29. School of Marine Sciences professors Malcolm Shick and Mark Wells led an international team that determined that limitations on available iron contribute to choral bleaching. The research was published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.
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It is widely held that coral bleaching occurs when temperatures and solar radiation are high, overwhelming antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and their coral hosts. Little understood are the biological mechanisms underlying such destabilization under stressful conditions. An international research team led by marine biologist Malcolm Shick and chemical oceanographer Mark Wells of the […]
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WABI television broadcast a Wednesday story about the open house at UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute. The story, which reported than more than 100 people turned out for the event, included comments from UMaine professors Ian Bricknell and Timothy Bowden. A similar story aired on WZON radio Thursday morning.
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WLBZ/WCSH and WABI interviewed Alice Kelley of the UMaine Dept. of Earth Sciences faculty for Tuesday stories about the earthquake that rattled the east coast. UMaine’s siesmometer recorded the activity just minutes after the earthquake occurred in Virginia, and those data were shared with scientists at a Boston College center that provides further analysis of […]
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Prof. Bob Steneck from the UMaine School of Marine Sciences is the lead resource for a Monday New York Times story about the condition of the Maine lobster fishery. In an article in Conservation Biology, Steneck and his research colleagues have raised warnings about an over-dependence on lobsters to support Maine’s fishing industry. “The researchers […]
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University of Maine and state entomologists are using a novel method — using insects to track insects — in the statewide surveillance for the destructive emerald ash borer, which has devastated ash forests in 15 northeastern states, parts of Canada and now threatens Maine. They’re using a little black ground-nesting wasp — Cerceris fumipennis — […]
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