MDI Bio Lab Data Team Taps the Cloud

African Turquoise Killifish in Focus at National Conference Hosted by MDI Bio Lab

Anastasia Paulmann, M.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Hermann Haller, M.D., has adopted the remarkable African turquoise killifish as a model for aging studies. It’s a rising star in comparative biology, and Paulmann co-organized the first national conference dedicated to its development.

MDI Bio Lab Data Team Taps the Cloud

Big data analysis is steadily moving away from local servers and into "the cloud". And the team in MDI Bio Lab’s Computational Genomics and Data Science Core is playing a role in the biomedical world’s transition.

Rising Investigator Appointed to MDI Bio Lab Faculty

Emily Spaulding explores how disrupting basic cell organization leads to neurodegenerative disease

Pioneering New Kidney-Grafting Techniques

New research published in the journal Bioengineering was led by former visiting scientists Leif Oxburgh, D.V.M., Ph.D. and Denise Marciano, M.D., Ph.D., and the MDI Bio Lab’s Iain Drummond, Ph.D. Drummond calls the challenge of getting lab-grown kidney tissue to link with an organism's circulatory system and function properly a "plumbing problem."

Data Science Team Explores New Protein Functions

Data Science Core Director Joel Graber, Ph.D., and several of his MDI Bio Lab Core team are co-authors of a new publication in Genetics that details previously undescribed molecular and genetic functions of a protein in yeast that is conserved in humans.

A Post-Doc Builds Proto-Kidneys from Scratch

More than 30 million Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), including thousands in Maine.

Microscopy in Focus for Maine INBRE Students

Students and young science faculty from all around Maine converged on MDI Bio Lab’s campus for an intensive 10-day course on the use of the most modern microscopy of the day.