Leaders in Regenerative & Developmental Biology Converge on MDI Bio Lab campus
Second annual ReBilD course marks Lab’s leadership in the field
Continue ReadingMDI Bio Lab Imaging Awards Keep On Coming
More recognition for MDI Bio Lab microscopy experts
Continue ReadingMDI Bio Lab Imaging Experts Take Top Honors in National Contest
Images taken in the Light Microscopy Facility have become a staple in the annual awards judged by Bioimaging North America (BINA)
Continue ReadingExtraordinary Microscopy Opens New Frontiers in Biology
MDI Bio Lab’s new, highly-advanced lightsheet microscope is complete and in use, thanks to support from the National Institutes of Health and Bio Lab supporters. The Lab’s faculty seem a little bit awed by the possibilities. “Now the challenge is to really open up your mind,” says Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Director of the Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Aging.
Continue ReadingGiving Tuesday at MDIBL
Meet Marko Pende, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Murawala lab at MDI Biological Laboratory. Marko investigates limb regeneration in axolotls, and is also an award-winning science photographer who’s inventing new ways to “clear” sample tissues, making them transparent for easier viewing. This fall, with his colleagues in the Light Microscopy Facility, Pende is building...
Continue ReadingMicroscopy Animations at MDIBL
Check out some remarkable animations — including the development of the zebrafish’s brain, brain vasculature, and kidneys — that Frédéric Bonnet, Ph.D., created with the Laboratory’s existing array of microscopes. The last animation, published by Somers et. al in the journal Cell Reports Methods, shows protein translation in C. elegans.
Continue ReadingMicroscopy Momentum at MDIBL
MDIBL’s facilities and website overflow with the beautiful and sometimes startling images its scientists, staff and students produce in the course of their research with the laboratory’s battery of microscopy and transgenic animal models. One of the experts, Marko Pende, Ph.D., was recognized this month by Nikon’s international “Small World Photomicrography Competition” for making an...
Continue ReadingMDIBL Welcomes Future Biotech Leaders to Campus
During the weekend of April 8-10, 2022, nine students from The Roux Institute will be on campus at the MDI Biological Laboratory as part of their semester long course, "Biotechnology Applications Laboratory.”
Continue ReadingThe Maine INBRE in its 22nd Year – Looking Back and Ahead
Guest post by James A. Coffman, Director, Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence
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