The next UMS Research and Innovation Speaker Series webinar titled Maine’s First Soft-Shell Clam Recruitment Monitoring Network: Highlighting a Statewide Fishery Crisis Through Citizen Science will take place on Monday, Feb. 6, at Noon via Zoom. The presenter, Dr. Brian Beal, is professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Maine at Machias. Beal studies the ecology and […]
The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Masks are required for all Mitchell Center talks Speaker: Emma Fox, Associate, Industrial Economics, Inc. Environmental economic consulting informs decision-making by federal and state clients working […]
Speakers: Dr. Yanyan Li, Ph.D.; Dr. Dany Fanfan, Ph.D., MSN, RN; and Dr. Sean Gibbons, Ph.D. About the Seminar: This week, we’ll be bringing all of our Theme 1 speakers back to engage in a panel discussion together on the gut microbiome. Panel will be hosted by Dr. Sue Ishaq. Please note, this session will only be featured […]
Speaker: Jared Talbot, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of University of Maine’s School of Biology and Ecology Talbot received his Bachelors in Science in Biology from Cornell University. He then began his work on developmental biology by studying skeleton formation with Dr. Charles Kimmel at the University of Oregon. After this, he did a postdoc investigating muscle development with […]
Dr. Kevin Feldheim, The Field Museum of Chicago: "Shark pop-gen and mating systems" Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, is a recently described phenomenon in the elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays). This process typically leads to offspring that are homozygous at the vast majority of loci. Here, I will discuss how our group discovered parthenogenesis in an […]