SBE Graduate Student Lightning Talks, featuring: Kwaku Agyekum, Biological Sciences MS student:"Regulation of synapse formation and function in C. elegans." Advisor: Zhao Xuan DeCorey Bolton, Zoology PhD Candidate:"eDNA Metabarcoding to SurveyGulf of Maine for Shellfish." Advisor: Erin Grey Ben Johnson, EES/SBE PhD Candidate:"Introductions of a New Parasitoidto the State of Maine." Advisor: Phil Fanning Nikhil […]

Dr. George Jacobson, Professor Emeritus, UMaine Biology and Ecology, and Maine State Climatologist (2007-14) The University of Maine has changed dramatically during the past thirty years and is now a R1 institution by NSF standards. This presentation will present an eye-witness account of those changes and how they occurred. Professor Emeritus George L. Jacobson was […]

Dr. Fidisoa "Fidy" Rasambainarivo, East Carolina University One Island, One Health: Biodiversity conservation and health at the human domestic animal and wildlife interface in Madagascar In Madagascar, growing contact between domestic and wild animals has amplified the risks of impact of invasive pathogens on the island's rich and endangered wildlife. Yet, despite the range of […]