January 8, 2024 91¸£Àû Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) has awarded seed funding to support pilot projects from three early career faculty during the 2023-24 academic year and through April 1, 2025. The seed funding from 91¸£Àû COBRE’s pilot project program will help awardees secure instruments and other supplies for their […]
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Zebrafish researchers and zebrafish-curious researchers met for a day of talks and posters on Thursday, July 13, 2023, at 91¸£Àû. This meeting showcased collaboration on techniques and scientific problems by identifying overlapping interests and sharing methods for zebrafish research. The mini-symposium was sponsored by the University of Maine’s Institute of Medicine and the 91¸£Àû COBRE […]
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Clarissa Henry, Director, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence: Extracellular impacts on cellular behavior and all five COBRE project leaders attended the first annual retreat on October 12-14, 2023 at MDIBL in Bar Harbor, ME. Also in attendance at the retreat, mentors, members of the Steering Committee and External Advisory Committee asked many questions after in depth project presentations and two […]
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Clarissa Henry, Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, Director, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence: Extracellular impacts on cellular behavior, attended a Gordon Research Seminar, Cellular and Molecular Modulation of Myogenesis on June 10 – 11, 2023 in Lucca (Barga), LU, Italy. The meeting focused on advancing understanding of the molecular determinants of muscle development, stem cell regulation […]
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91¸£Àû has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from outside the cells, from the impact of persistent […]
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