New Research Charts PFAS Route From School to Drinking Water
There are wider implications of the analyses, which were led by a MDI Bio Lab Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow; meanwhile, the Lab is expanding testing and partnerships around “forever chemicals"
Continue ReadingMicroscopy 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.
Continue ReadingIs Bioscience Rising in Maine?
There’s an emerging sense around Maine that the state’s biomedical research and development community is raising its profile in the world of bioscience. And whether or not Maine is ready to take on life-science heavyweights like Massachusetts or Maryland, the sector is growing significantly, while new collaborations among institutions – including MDIBL – are raising...
Continue ReadingAs Popular As Ever: MBMSS 2022
Researchers from across the state of Maine descended on MDI Biological Laboratory the last weekend in April for the 49th annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS).
Continue ReadingTake a Closer Look: Microscopy at MDIBL
While scientific images are often stunning from an artistic point of view, for the scientists, the beauty of the image is most often contained in the answers it can give them. Frédéric Bonnet,Ph.D., manager of MDI Biological Laboratory’s Light Microscopy Facility (LMF) strives to make sure that users have up-to-date training to make sure they can obtain information that is beneficial to their research.
Continue ReadingCloud Computing 101
Joel Graber, Ph.D., is a Senior Staff Scientist and Director of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Core, funded by a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence award from the National Institutes of Health
Continue ReadingCourses Already in Full Swing for 2022
Somehow February is already here and we’re proud to say that we’ve already successfully hosted three primarily in-person short courses for Maine INBRE undergraduate students. The year got underway with the University of Maine Honor’s College course “Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease,” which featured faculty from the University of Maine, Dartmouth College, and MDI Biological...
Continue ReadingVisiting Scientist Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D.: Solving the Riddle of the Mysterious Kidney Ailment Plaguing Farmers Around the World
This is the third in a series of posts describing how collaborations between MDI Biological Laboratory faculty members and visiting scientists are advancing scientific progress.
Continue ReadingAnother Successful Summer at MDIBL
Walking through the MDI Biological Laboratory courtyard on a sultry August afternoon, you couldn’t help but be inspired by the depth and breadth of research from our 2021 student fellows. 45 undergraduate and high school students from institutions across the country, working with mentors at MDIBL and other INBRE institutions around Maine, spent 10 weeks...
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