Student Focus Aisling Macaraeg

Undergraduate Student Focus – Aisling Macaraeg Aisling Macaraeg’s path to NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee began as an inquisitive elementary school student!   Aisling Macaraeg was awarded a NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee position on July 24th and is conducting research in Dr. Matthias Machner’s lab on uncovering effector mechanisms of the pathogenic bacteria Legionella pneumophila. […]

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SC Update

Steering Committee Update New Steering Committee Members – Spring 2023   Seann Mulcahy Seann Mulcahy, a Professor of Chemistry, become a member of our Steering Committee in June 2023 as Providence College’s representative. His research expertise includes organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and NMR spectroscopy. Dr. Mulcahy was recently awarded an NIH R15 (2023) and previously […]

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EAC Update

External Advisory Committee Update Summer 2023 Dr. Andrew G. Campbell, New Committee Member Dr. Andrew G. Campbell joined the External Advisory Committee in February and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our program. Currently a principal investigator of two National Institutes of Health grants, and a previous recipient of four NSF awards, Dr. […]

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SURF Update 2022

SURF Program Update – Summer 2022 The RI-INBRE program completed the 19th Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program in 2022! First organized in 2004 to increase the number of undergraduate students participating in scientific research activities at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Brown University, the program expanded in 2009 to include students in […]

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VL Templer 2022

Investigator Focus:  Dr. Victoria L. Templer Dr. Victoria L. Templer, Associate Professor of Psychology and newly appointed director of Neuroscience, was awarded Providence College’s 2022 Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award! The honor is bestowed to a tenured faculty member demonstrating the highest standards in research, scholarship, and contributions in their field. Dr. Templer, a behavioral neuroscientist […]

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CRCF Instrumentation in Action

CRCF Instrumentation in Action! The collaboration between George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University aimed to investigate neuroplasticity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), utilizing sophisticated instrumentation at the CRCF, and resulted in the publication “Inhibitory interneurons show early dysfunction in […]

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MindImmune Therapeutics

Industry User: MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. a small pharmaceutical company with an impact that is emerging daily, is based in Kingston, at the University of Rhode Island. The company is developing first-in-class therapeutic drugs targeting the immune system to treat diseases of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer’s disease.  The company recently announced […]

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Student Focus Alexia Martins

Alexia Martins, Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Student Alexia Martins graduated from the University of Rhode Island in May with a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology and recently defended her master’s thesis, Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Real Word Reading Fluency: An Eye-Tracking Study. Her thesis was based on data from the RI-INBRE Early Career Development (ECD) project […]

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CRCF CCRI Student Tours

CCRI’s Biotechnology and Chemical Technology Programs The training collaboration between the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) and the Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) regularly hosts student groups from Professor Scott Warila’s Biotechnology class and Professor Wayne Suits‘s Chemical Technology Program. Students tour the facility and learn to use the high-performance equipment. Professor Scott Warila […]

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