{"id":49641,"date":"2024-10-10T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research\/?p=49641"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:49:41","slug":"amplified-experience-grad-students-join-umaine-dna-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research\/2024\/10\/10\/amplified-experience-grad-students-join-umaine-dna-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplified experience: Grad students join UMaine DNA labs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two University of Maine graduate students will wield DNA technology to support research at UMaine and across the state. Julianna Silver and Esther Olabamire will help conduct lab operations at the flagship university\u2019s Environmental DNA (eDNA) Service<\/a> and DNA Sequencing<\/a> Centers through paid graduate assistantships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silver, a second year masters student in aquaculture and aquatic resources program, will help lead the labs\u2019 freezer program and assist with other operations. Olabamire, a first year student in the data science and engineering program with specialization in Bioinformatics\/Biomedicine, will also help with lab operations and sequencing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The positions will provide on-the-job training that aligns with both students’ backgrounds and current research. Silver, who worked on the $20 million NSF EPSCoR RII SEANET program as an undergraduate, is currently investigating the shed rates of a harmful bacteria, vibrio anguillarum<\/em>, in blue mussels. The goal is to use genetic testing to detect the amount of vibrio anguillarum<\/em> filtered and then shed by the mussels to help select aquaculture sites. <\/p>\n\n\n