Executive Committee

Barbara Knowles
Embryonic Development, Oocyte to Embryo Transition, Tolerance to Tumor Antigens
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Email: bbk@jax.org

Robert Lad
materials science, ceramics, thin film synthesis, surface characterization, sensors
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Email: rjlad@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2257
Core Faculty

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

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

Wayne Frankel
Epilepsy, Neurogenetics, Complex Traits, Mutagenesis
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Email: wnf@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6354

Robert Friesel
Growth factors (FGFs), signal transduction, vascular biology, skeletal development, cancer
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Email: friesr@mmc.org
Phone: (207) 885-814

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

Derry Roopenian
Autoimmunity, Molecular Phenotyping, Transplantation Genetics
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Email: dcr@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6396

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

Joel Graber
Computational Studies of Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation and Genome Organization
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Email: jhgraber@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6782

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
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

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
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
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
Genome Structure and Function Within the Nucleus
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Email: lss@jax.org
Phone: 207-288-6739

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
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