Outreach Programs

Outreach programs provide biomedical research training opportunities to undergraduate and high school students in Maine. Primary outreach institutions include The University of Maine-Presque Isle, and The University of Maine-Fort Kent. Undergraduates at any other Maine college or university are also eligible for these programs. Please contact the Maine INBRE Research Training Coordinator for more information.

Undergraduate Summer Fellowships
Short Courses
Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium
Scientific Speakers Program

Undergraduate Summer Fellowships

Please see the 'Undergraduate Research' section of this website for more information about mentored summer undergraduate research fellowships.

Short courses

Molecular Biology Research Techniques – Southern Maine Community College
January 3-8, 2010 | Charles Wray, Ph.D., Associate Admin. Director, MDIBL
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

INBRE short course open to undergraduates from Southern Maine Community College and other Maine colleges. This is a hands-on laboratory course in molecular biology, focusing experimental procedures including RNA and DNA extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction and DNA sequencing. The curriculum will mix intensive, hands-on laboratory work with several informal seminars.

Crustacean Molecular Neurophysiology - Colby College
January 11-22, 2010 | Andrew Christie, Ph.D., Investigator, MDIBL
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Molecular and physiological investigations of circadian and circatidal rhythms using Crustacean model systems: A two-week laboratory short course in molecular biology and neuroscience research techniques for undergraduate students from Colby College.

Molecular Neurobiology – Bowdoin College
January 17-24, 2010; March 12-18, 2010 | Hadley Horch, Ph.D., Bowdoin College
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Molecular Biology Research Techniques – UMaine Machias and UMaine Farmington
February 15-19, 2010 | Antonio Planchart, Ph.D., Assoc. Admin. Director, MDIBL
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

This is a hands-on laboratory course in molecular biology, focusing experimental procedures including RNA and DNA extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction and DNA sequencing. The curriculum will mix intensive, hands-on laboratory work with several informal seminars.

Functional Genomics of Membrane Transport - Arsenic - University of Maine Honors College
February 26 - March 6, 2010 | Bruce Stanton, Ph.D., Dartmouth Medical School
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Functional Genomics of Membrane Transport is an eight-day laboratory short course offering broad training in physiology, molecular biology, and microscopy research techniques for undergraduate students from The University of Maine. The course will focus on cystic fibrosis as a model disease that can be studied with a variety of techniques currently used in biomedical research, and it will consist of both lectures and hands-on training in the laboratory.

For more information on this short course, please visit the course website.

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics - College of the Atlantic
March 15-26, 2010 | Charlie Wray, Ph.D., MDIBL and Chris Petersen, Ph.D., COA
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

INBRE short course open to undergraduates from College of the Atlantic and other Maine colleges. This is a hands-on laboratory course in molecular genetics, focusing on genomic DNA isolation, genomic library construction and amplification of molecular markers by polymerase chain reaction. Participants in the course will be introduced to a variety of molecular techniques that can be used to investigate population genetics of animal species. In particular, we plan to have students apply newly learned techniques to marine species, with an emphasis on shark and skate species.

Environmental Toxicogenomics - Bates College
Tentative: May 11-22, 2010 | Antonio Planchart, Ph.D., MDIBL
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

37th Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium

Dates:April 23-24th, 2010
Location: MDI Biological Laboratory Conference Center
Sponsors: Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Maine INBRE), MDI Biological Laboratory, and The Jackson Laboratory

The 37th Maine Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium will be held April 23-24, 2010 in the Maren Auditorium and Dahlgren Hall Conference Center at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine. The Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS) is a state-wide gathering of researchers and students—an opportunity to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration, and network with Maine scientists in a variety of disciplines. Invited and selected speakers will present short research reports, followed by question/answer and open discussion. A poster session and a special networking session for Maine junior faculty will also be held.

All Maine researchers, science faculty, graduate, undergraduate and high school students are cordially invited to attend.

Scientific Speakers Program

The Scientific Speakers Program supports the visits of Maine INBRE investigators and established biomedical research scientists from Maine or other states to give research seminars and discuss biomedical research topics with faculty and students at INBRE institutions. Maine colleges and universities interested in a scientific speaker from a Maine INBRE institution, should contact the Scientific Speakers Coordinator.