Morning Ag Clips, Potato Pro and Potato News Today shared a University of Maine news release about a National Science Foundation award that will support establishment of a research hub at UMaine that will focus on Potato Virus Y. Assistant professor E. Han Tan is a co-principal investigator on the project, which is led by the University […]
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Medical News and the Magnolia Reporter reported that Ek Han Tan, a University of Maine assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology, is a co-principal investigator of a collaborative project that will establish a virus research institute at the University of Arkansas. UMaine will serve as a hub for the center in this […]
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Down East magazine spoke with Rafa Tasnim, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, about a study which revealed that Washington County’s blueberry fields are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state. Tasnim hopes that the methods used in this study will be applicable to […]
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Greater understanding of the biology of one of the most destructive plant viruses to potato crops will be the focus of a research hub at the University of Maine that is part of a new $6.1 million institute focused on virology and host-virus dynamics. The National Science Foundation awarded the grant to the University of […]
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Next April, Václava “Vendy” Hazuková will go to an arid, treeless area in West Greenland to solve a puzzle. It’s not known how lakes there contribute to Arctic carbon cycling — the process in which carbon atoms move from the atmosphere to the Earth and back. Where carbon is — including in the atmosphere, oceans, […]
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The ways yeast and human cells communicate are similar, according to University of Maine assistant professor of biochemistry Joshua Kelley. Each makes use of a family of proteins called G-protein coupled receptors that detect signals outside the cell, and transfer that information into signals inside the cell. These types of receptors are responsible for, among […]
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The Associated Press reported that Maine Sen. Angus King supports a competitive federal grants program intended to address a maintenance backlog at agricultural research facilities and land-grant universities, including the University of Maine.
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News Center Maine noted that the University of Maine is working with the research center Manomet and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to conduct eDNA research. Scientists from the three institutions are using eDNA to determine whether quahogs have estaplished a self-sustaining population in Robinhood Cove in the Midcoast.
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The Times Record cited a May report compiled by Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist and a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, about drug overdoses in the state. According to the report, as cited in the article, 3,222 drug overdoses are believed to have occured between January and May […]
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A column about biomass published in The Bethel Citizen and The Franklin Journal cited research from the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests at the University of Maine. According to the center, as cited in the opinion piece, “the total stored biomass is roughly constant, thus maintaining the forest-based economic sector of Maine.”
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