Vision
Make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Mission
Foster broad-based environmental genetics collaborations, partnerships, and infrastructure that contribute to the sustainability of current and future natural resource industries and agriculture, improve human health and wellbeing, and prepare a technologically skilled workforce.
Message from the Director
Welcome to the website of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment, or MCGE as we often call it. The Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment (MCGE) was formed in 2019 as a sustainability element of the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Maine-eDNA Program (NSF #OIA-1849227). The center was founded around a vision to make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them. I like to say that environmental genetics is a scientific bridge…
Maine Research News
- Northern Woodlands magazine interviewed Tyler Everett, Ph.D. candidate in forestry at the University of Maine and a citizen of Mi’kmaq Nation, on emerald ash borer […]
- News Center Maine, Fox Bangor, WABI 5 and WGME 13, interviewed Robert Jarrett II, recent University of Maine doctoral graduate, on his research which showed […]
- The World interviewed Rob Glover, an associate professor of political science and honors at the University of Maine, on the 25th anniversary of Portugal’s landmark […]
- Manufacturing aircraft components, battery materials, cutting tools, biomedical implants and other precision-engineered parts often involves metals in powder form. When these powders become mixed or […]
- 91¸£Àû’s largest and most activity-filled event of the year — Homecoming — returns Oct. 23–25. The three-day gathering features football, ice hockey, […]
- 91¸£Àû Center on Aging will host the 21st Annual Clinical Geriatrics Colloquium on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. […]
- U.S. Department of Energy grant supports 91¸£Àû study of forest recovery after timber harvesting led by Daniel Hayes, professor of geospatial analysis and remote sensing […]
- U.S. Department of Energy-supported project is led by assistant professor Tomas Marangoni (Department of Chemistry and Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technologies, FIRST) As […]
