News & Events
Alpha-Gal Sugar from Hard-Bodied Ticks Leads to Red Meat Allergy
Northern News Now interviewed Dr. Ben Clarke’s regarding the emergence of the Alpha-gal Syndrome, which causes red meat allergy due to a tick bite. Dr. Clarke is a professor in the Department of...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
An antioxidant response element regulates the HIF1α axis in breast cancer cells
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Lacher and team on their new publication on breast cancer!Cells have evolved many strategies to deal with various types of stress. One way our cells deal with oxidative...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Breathing in waves: Understanding respiratory-brain coupling as a gradient of predictive oscillations
Dr. Heck and his group collaborators have been working on the influence of breathing on brain activity for over a decade. In 2014 Dr. Heck and colleagues published a seminal paper in which they...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
The cerebellum contributes to generalized seizures by altering activity in the ventral posteromedial nucleus
What is the role of the cerebellum in epilepsy? As neuroscientists, Drs. Heck and Liu from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Duluth campus, study the disease in their lab....
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Cerebellar control of thalamocortical circuits for cognitive function: A review of pathways and a proposed mechanism
Drs. Heck and Liu from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Duluth campus, published an article in the journal Frontiers Systems in Neuroscience. Their research paper...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Dr. Zimmer Lab team in Duluth identify a new type of circular RNA
Kudos to Dr. Sara Zimmer and her laboratory researchers Clara Smoniewski, PhD candidate 2023, and Austin Petersen, undergraduate student, from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Educational Case: Serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma and endometrial cancer, Academic Pathology
Dr. Carl McGary and Dr. Rodney Boyum published a fictional case study intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), which is a set of national standards...
Biomedical, Duluth, Education, Faculty
Y225A induces long-range conformational changes in human prion protein that are protective in Drosophila
Dr. Fernandez-Funez and fellow researchers published an article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in which they share the findings from their research on prion disease. They learned...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Drs. Slattery and Yang recipients of MDT-MK Team Pilot Grant to study the reprogramming of neurodegeneration
The Memory Keepers-Medical Discovery Team (MDT-MK) awarded $25,000 to Drs. Matthew Slattery, PhD, and Amy Yang, PhD, both Associate Professors in the department of Biomedical, at the Medical School,...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty
The Department of Biomedical Sciences secures funding to purchase a new imager
Kudos to Dr. Bemis and colleagues for securing funding to purchase a new imager for the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS).
Lynne Bemis, PhD, professor in the Biomedical Sciences, University...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Leadership
AHC Duluth Research Seminar Series
This series is a joint venture by Medical School, Duluth campus and College of Pharmacy, Duluth campus. During the academic year, seminars are held on Wednesdays of each month at 3:30 p.m. in Room 130 Medical School Duluth.
AHC Lab Bench Talks
Mondays, 3-4 pm, Room 142 SMed and via Zoom
A collaborative effort of the Biomedical Sciences Department of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, and the College of Pharmacy Duluth to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research efforts and provide a mechanism for faculty and trainees to present their ongoing research.