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Dr. Aubie Shaw publishes about an Independent Learning Time module related to the ethics of abortion
Congratulations to Aubie Shaw, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus, for co-authoring an article published in...
Biomedical, Duluth, Education, Faculty, Students
Circadian neurogenetics and its implications in neurophysiology, behavior, and chronomedicine
Drs. Owen Chao and Amy Yang co-authored a newly published article in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Volume 157, 2024. Kudos to both!The article presents recent...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Dr. Sabrina Scroggins and Doug Scroggins, a partnership dedicated to maternal health and research
Elena Montanye, Communications Specialist, UMN Twin Cities, interviewed Dr. Sabrina Scroggins, Immunology Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical...
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Pedro Fernandez-Funez, PhD, Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education
Congratulations to Pedro Fernandez-Funez, PhD, who will be recognized with a 2024 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education! Dr. Fernandez-Funez is a dedicated...
Biomedical, Biobehavioral, Duluth, Education, Faculty
The Zimmer lab publishes new findings of their research of the Trypanosoma brucei parasite
Congratulations to Clara Smoniewski, PhD, first author and former Graduate Research Assistant in the Zimmer Lab, Austin Petersen, current Graduate Research Assistant, and Sara Zimmer, PhD,...
Biomedical, Duluth, Research
'Day of Science' for Nett Lake Elementary School
The Nett Lake Elementary School was invited to the Duluth Campus for a ‘Day of Science’ in October 2023. The visit started at the UMD Planetarium for the showing “Living in Balance: Anishinaabe...
Biomedical
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
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