| Name |
Institution |
Research Interests |
| Core Faculty |
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| Barbara B. Knowles,
Director |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Embryonic Development, Oocyte to Embryo Transition, Tolerance to Tumor Antigens |
| Keith Hutchison,
Admin. Director |
BMMB, University of Maine |
Molecular genetics and regulation of development in plants and animals. Genome structure and genome flux in response to the environment. |
| Susan Ackerman |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Neurodegeneration, Neurodevelopment |
| Peggy Agouris |
SIE, University of Maine |
Digital Image Processing and Analysis for Extraction, Intelligent Retrieval, and Management of Geospatial Information, Integrated Information Systems, Digital Photogrammetry, and Remote Sensing |
| M. Kate Beard-Tisdale |
SIE, University of Maine |
Digital libraries, metadata and spatial data quality, uncertainty of spatial data and visualization of spatial data quality |
| Carol Bult |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Comparative Genomics, Genome Informatics, Large-scale Mutagenesis Informatics, Biological Databases |
| Gary Churchill |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Statistical Genetics, QTL Analysis |
| Scott Collins
(arriving Fall 2003) |
LASST / Chemistry, University
of Maine |
MEMS, electronic materials, photonic. fluidic, and electronic components into compact analytical instrumentation; electrochemistry and mechanism of silicon anisotropic etching, fractal phase transitions, mechanism, and applications of porous silicon |
| Sharon Crook |
Math, University of Maine |
Mathematical Biology Dynamical Systems |
| Max Egenhofer |
SIE, University of Maine |
Spatio-temporal reasoning, user interfaces for geographic information systems, the design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances |
| Wayne N. Frankel |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Epilepsy, Neurogenetics, Complex Traits, Mutagenesis |
| Robert Friesel |
Maine Medical Center Research
Institute |
Growth factors (FGFs) |
| Thomas Gridley |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Notch Signaling Pathway in Development and Disease, Developmental Mutants |
| Simon John |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Glaucoma |
| Carol Kim |
BMMB, University of Maine |
Zebrafish, innate immunity, infectious disease, vaccine development |
| Robert
Lad |
LASST/Physics, University
of Maine |
Materials science, ceramics, thin film synthesis, surface characterization. |
| Thomas Maciag |
Maine Medical Center Research
Institute |
Growth factor and receptor biology, vascular biology and angiogenesis |
| Mohamed Musavi |
ECE, University of Maine |
Neural networks, computer vision and robotics |
| Jürgen K. Naggart |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Neural Control of Metabolic Diseases |
| Timothy O’Brien |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Developmental Genomics, Embryology |
| Luanne L. Peters |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Erythrocyte and Platelet Disorders |
| Martin Ringwald |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Gene Expression Database |
| Derry Roopenian |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Autoimmunity, Molecular Phenotyping, Transplantation Genetics |
| John Schimenti |
The Jackson Laboratory |
Functional Genomics via Mutagenesis, Meiosis, Recombination |
| Rosemary Smith
(arriving Fall 2003) |
LASST/ECE, University of
Maine |
Fabrication, packaging and testing of both chemical and physical biomedical microsensors and technology development for analytical microinstruments. |
| Rebecca Van Beneden |
BMMB, University of Maine |
Environmental Toxicology, Molecular Carcinogenesis in Aquatic Organisms |
| Affiliated Faculty |
||
| Paul Millard |
LASST/Chem. & Bio. Eng.,
University of Maine |
|
| Silvia Nittel |
SIE, University of Maine |
Database systems, distributed systems, heterogeneous systems, and mobile, sensor-based computing |
| David J. Neivandt | Chem. & Bio. Eng., Unviersity of Maine | Determination of the Orientation and Conformation of Interfacial Species and Surface Spectroscopies/Microscopies |
| Mauricio Pereira da Cunha | ECE/University of Maine | Microwave Acoustic Devices, High Frequency RF Devices, Wireless Communication, Signal Processing, High Temperature Acoustic Wave Sensors, Acoustic Wave Biosensor, Acoustic Wave Materials |
| Habtom Ressom |
ECE, University of Maine |
Computational intelligence for data classification, clustering, virtual sensing, and process control |
| Touradj Solouki |
Chemistry, University of
Maine |
Analytical Chemistry: ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry |
| Carl Tripp |
LASST/Chemistry, University
of Maine |
Surface chemistry, infrared/raman spectroscopy, organic thin films, colloids. |
| Tom Wheeler |
Computer Sci., University
of Maine |
Programming languages, software engineering, application of software engineering principles to biological modeling |