Researchers including Professor Jonathan Simon funded by a new two-year, $460K grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging hope to shed light on whether mindfulness training could be used therapeutically to help people who have had minor strokes experience more complete recoveries.
Researchers from the University of Maryland found a gene that helps tuberculosis turn off an important immune signaling system in infected human cells.
Allison Coffin (Ph.D. '05, biology; advisor: Professor Arthur Popper) is now an associate professor of neuroscience at Washington State University Vancouver.
UMD scientists discover that mating can cause epigenetic changes in nematode worms that last for 300 generations.
Chemistry & Biochemistry Associate Professor
The grant will support her team’s efforts in researching the role of airway mucins during influenza virus infection.
Nikolas Francis will begin his role as an assistant professor in the Brain and Behavior Institute with a joint appointment in biology in fall 2021. Francis has been at UMD since 2011, moving up from postdoctoral fellow to his current role as senior faculty specialist in biology.
Three biology faculty members were funded with the seed grants: Ricardo Araneda, Joshua Singer and Colenso Speer.
Karen Gu, biological sciences graduate student (Advisor: Scott Juntti); Madison Plunkert, biological sciences major (undergraduate researcher in Gerald Borgia's lab); and Elissa Moller (B.S. ’20, biological sciences) (undergraduate researcher in Sergei Sukharev's lab) received the honor.
The college’s awardees include five current graduate students, four current undergraduates and four recent alumni.