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Executive Committee

Kate Beard-Tisdale

Kate Beard-Tisdale

Digital libraries; spatial uncertainty; geographic information systems (GIS)

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Email: beard@spatial.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2147

Keith Hutchison

Keith Hutchison

genomics, gene expression, nuclear organization

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Email: keithh@maine.edu
Phone: 207-581-2827

Barbara Knowles

Barbara Knowles

Embryonic Development, Oocyte to Embryo Transition, Tolerance to Tumor Antigens

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Email: bbk@jax.org

Robert Lad

Robert Lad

materials science, ceramics, thin film synthesis, surface characterization, sensors

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Email: rjlad@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2257

Don Wojchowski

Don Wojchowski

Issues in hematopoietic cell growth and development.

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Email: WOJCHD@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-8258

Core Faculty

Susan Ackerman

Susan Ackerman

Neurodegeneration, Neurodevelopment

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Email: susan.ackerman@jax.org

Carol Bult

Carol Bult

Comparative Genomics, Genome Informatics, Large-scale Mutagenesis Informatics, Biological Databases

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Email: cbult@spatial.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2143

Gary Churchill

Gary Churchill

Statistical Genetics, QTL Analysis

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Email: garyc@jax.org

Scott Collins

Scott Collins

MEMS, nanofabrication, micromechanical components, microphotonic devices

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Email: scott.collins@maine.edu
Phone: 581-2269

Max Egenhofer

Max Egenhofer

Spatial reasoning; geographic database systems; user interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS); mobile computing

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Email: max@spatial.maine.edu

Eva Eicher

Eva Eicher

Reproductive Abnormalities, Gonad Development, Sex Determination, Ovarian Cancer

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Email: eva.eicher@jax.org

Wayne Frankel

Wayne Frankel

Epilepsy, Neurogenetics, Complex Traits, Mutagenesis

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Email: wnf@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6354

Robert Friesel

Robert Friesel

Growth factors (FGFs), signal transduction, vascular biology, skeletal development, cancer

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Email: friesr@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-814

Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley

Notch Signaling Pathway in Development and Disease, Developmental Mutants

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Email: tom.gridley@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6237

Mary Ann Handel

Mary Ann Handel

Spermatogenesis, Testis Development, Infertility Genetic Models

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Email: mahandel@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6778

Simon John

Simon John

Glaucoma

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Email: swmj@jax.org

Carol Kim

Carol Kim

zebrafish, zebrafish disease, disease modeling, infection

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Email: carolkim@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2803

Mohamad Musavi

Mohamad Musavi

Neural networks; fuzzy systems; digital image processing and computer vision

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Email: musavi@eece.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2243

Jürgen Naggert

Jürgen Naggert

Neural Control of Metabolic Diseases

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Email: jkn@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6382

David Neivandt

David Neivandt

Determination of the orientation and conformation of interfacial species; surface spectroscopies/microscopies; biological and chemical sensors

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Email: dneivandt@umche.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2288

Luanne Peters

Luanne Peters

Erythrocyte and Platelet Disorders

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Email: luanne@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6391

Martin Ringwald

Martin Ringwald

Gene Expression Database

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Email: ringwald@informatics.jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6436

Derry Roopenian

Derry Roopenian

Autoimmunity, Molecular Phenotyping, Transplantation Genetics

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Email: dcr@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6396

Rosemary Smith

Rosemary Smith

Microfluidic instruments for biomolecular analysis, microsensors, biomedical microdevices

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Email: rosemary.smith@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-3361

Rebecca van Beneden

Rebecca van Beneden

Environmental Oceanography, Environmental Toxicology, Marine Molecular Genetics, Tumorigenesis, Molecular Carcinogenesis in Aquatic Organisms, Marine Biology

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Email: rebeccav@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2602

Associate Faculty

Yaacov Barak

Yaacov Barak

Diabetes, Embryonic Development, Adipogenesis, Gene Regulation

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Email: yaki.barak@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6704

Robert Burgess

Robert Burgess

Neurodevelopment, Synapse Formation

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Email: rburgess@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6706

Joel Graber

Joel Graber

Computational Studies of Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation and Genome Organization

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Email: jhgraber@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6782

Clarissa Henry

Clarissa Henry

Cell and molecular biology of segmentation and muscle development in Zebrafish

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Email: Clarissa.Henry@umit.maine.edu
Phone: 581-2816

Sam Hess

Sam Hess

Development of Fluorescence Photophysics Tools for the study of Biomembrane Organization

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Email: Sam.T.Hess@umit.maine.edu
Phone: (207)581-1036

Andre Khalil

Andre Khalil

Analysis, Wavelets, Fractals, Image Analysis

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Email: akhalil@jax.org
Phone: 207-581-3911

Lucy Liaw

Lucy Liaw

Murine transgenic approaches to study vascular remodeling; Tumor growth and blood vessel recruitment

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Email: liawl@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-8142

Volkhard Lindner

Volkhard Lindner

Blood vessels and the factors that control the growth of cells in the vessel wall

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Email: lindnv@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-8143

Paul Millard

Paul Millard

biosensors, physiological genomics ad proteomics, microbial pathogen detection

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Email: paul.millard@maine.edu
Phone: 207-581-2265

Kevin Mills

Kevin Mills

DNA Repair, Genome stability, and Cancer

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Email: kevin.mills@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6821

Anja Nohe

Anja Nohe

Image correlation spectroscopy, surface spectroscopy/microscopy, bio-molecular kinetics and dynamics, signal transduction, biological membranes, bone and joint development, nano-particles, molecular diffusion

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Email: Anohe@umche.maine.edu
Phone: 581-2270

Leif Oxburgh

Leif Oxburgh

Developing siRNA knock-down technique in organ culture to facilitate the functional screening of large number of genes expressed in the developing kidney

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Email: oxburl@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-8115

Mauricio Pereira da Cunha

Mauricio Pereira da Cunha

New piezoelectric materials and acoustic wave devices for military electronic systems; biosensors; Microwave Acoustic Devices; High Frequency RF Devices; Wireless Communication; Signal Processing; High Temperature Acoustic Wave Sensors and materials

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Email: mdacunha@eece.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2384

Lindsay Shopland

Lindsay Shopland

Genome Structure and Function Within the Nucleus

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Email: lss@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6739

Touradj Solouki

Touradj Solouki

breath analysis, breath, portable analytical detectors

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Email: solouki@maine.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-1172

Carl Tripp

Carl Tripp

surface chemistry, infrared/Raman spectroscopy, nanoparticles, organic thin films, colloids, biointerfaces

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Email: ctripp@maine.edu
Phone: (207)-581-2235

Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler

Intelligence, Software Engineering Environments, Programming Languages, Formal Specification and Verification, Software Interfacing and Interoperability, Distributed Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Computer Aided Design

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Email: wheeler@umcs.maine.edu
Phone: 207 581-3937

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