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Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja will attend the prestigious COP28 as a UMN Delegate!

The Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Duluth campus, is proud to announce that Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, was selected as one of two faculty to attend...

Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Leadership

View of Pa Hang Mountain by Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja

Why our species relied more on rainforest resources than Denisovans, while living in the same region?

Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja and collaborators! The team published a new paper titled “Paleoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia” in the journal Scientific...

Biomedical, Faculty, Research

Biomedical Sciences Seeks Applicants for Assistant or Associate Professor of Neuroscience

The Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor of Neuroscience.The Department of Biomedical Sciences at...

Biomedical

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

Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja shares perspectives from her research trip in Southeast Asia

Elena Montanye, Communications Specialist, UMN Twin Cities, interviewed Alexandra Zachwieja, PhD, about her recent research trip to Southeast Asia. Dr. Zachwieja is an Assistant Professor in the...

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

How Biomedical Researchers started a National Program in Wastewater Surveillance?

Although looking at infectious pathogens in wastewater is not a novel idea, back in 2020 Drs. Glenn Simmons Jr. and Richard G. Melvin, UMN researchers, launched a research project to detect COVID-19...

Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Leadership

Experts share tips to stay safe during tick season, as Lyme disease cases are up

In Minnesota, we understand spring means ticks are out! What are the best means to protect ourselves against the risks of contracting Lyme’s disease? MN Daily reports that there is an uptick in cases...

Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty

yellow banner with head crop of Dr. Fernandez-Funez

Dr. Fernandez-Funez recipient of the 2023 Provost's Unit Service Award

Congratulations to Dr. Pedro Fernandez-Funez, who is the recipient of the 2023 Provost's Unit Service Award. Read more here.

Biomedical, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

Mini Medical School in Duluth

The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus inspired the next generation of healthcare professionals with their annual mini Medical School on June 1. Students from local high...

Biomedical, Biobehavioral, Community Engagement, Duluth

Hina Durrani, recipient of the 2023-24 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) from the UMN Graduate School

Kudos to Hina! Hina Durrani, IBS PhD Graduate student and Research Assistant in the Zimmer Lab in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus,...

Biomedical, Duluth

NIH invites Dr. Cao to serve on the MIRA Program

Dr. Ray Cao, Associate Professor, has been invited to serve a 4-year term as a Member of the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award Study Section, Cell Biology Integrated Review Group....

Biomedical, Faculty, Leadership, NIH, Faculty Accomplishments