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Rhode Island Coral on Display: Hosted by Dr. Koty Sharp’s Lab, Roger Williams University The research team from Dr. Koty Sharp’s Lab at Roger Williams University participated in the exhibit “About Planet Earth, the Environment and Our Future” at Providence’s Waterfire Gallery. The free exhibit ran from March 29th to May 1st. 2021, and […]
Continue reading "Sharp Lab Displays RI Coral 2022"Recognition of Investigators and Students Happenings Dr. Brenton DeBoef was promoted to the Dean of the graduate school on August 3, 2021. Dr. DeBoef was RI-INBRE’s Training Core Director before being promoted to Associate Dean and serving as Interim Dean. Student Updates Caroline Williams (SURF ’19) started her Ph.D. in the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program, in […]
Continue reading "Recognition W22 news"Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium 2022 (RIMS 2022) The Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium 2022 (RIMS 2022) was held virtually on January 14th and brought together 160 experts in the fields of environmental and biomedical microbiome research and microbial ecology. The symposium featured two keynote speakers: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez, Yale University “Evolutionary engineering of microbial consortia” Dr. […]
Continue reading "RIMS 2022 W22 News"Administrative Supplemental Awards RI-INBRE’s recent NIH Administrative Supplement awards RI-INBRE/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award The “Nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery for inflammatory arthritis” project is led by Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel, a Rhode Island College RI-INBRE investigator, in collaboration with Dr. Eui Young So, a Rhode Island Hospital COBRE investigator. The one-year project was awarded in August 2021 and […]
Continue reading "Adm Supp Awards W22 News"RI-INBRE-COBRE Collaborative Research Dr. Susan Meschwitz received the first RI-INBRE/COBRE Collaboration Supplemental Award in 2019 with Dr. Helen (Beth) Fuchs of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. In 2021, Dr. Meschwitz also received the RI-INBRE Women’s Health Supplemental Award, in collaboration with URI investigators Dr. Jodi Camberg and Dr. David Rowley. Dr. Susan Meschwitz, Associate […]
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SURF Program Update – Summer 2021 RI-INBRE hosted the 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program from May 24th through July 30th. Ninety-one undergraduate students participated in summer research experiences at our network institutions across the state including, Providence College, Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University, Salve Regina University, and the University of Rhode Island. […]
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Virtual North East Regional IDeA Conference (v-NERIC) New IDeAs, New Discoveries RI-INBRE hosted the 2021 virtual North East Regional Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Conference (vNERIC) on August 16-18, 2021, which attracted over 650 researchers from the National Institutes of Health IDeA programs throughout Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The conference included keynote […]
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Welcome to Johnson and Wales University! RI-INBRE is pleased to announce that Johnson and Wales University (JWU) joined our network! We are proud to support the partnership to expand our newest institutional member’s biomedical research capacity. RI-INBRE’s team met with JWU’s leadership and finalized the new collaboration in November 2021. We are excited to report […]
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Kristen Baker, RI-INBRE Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow Kristen Baker, Ph.D. “very early on, fell in love” an organic chemistry class in high school and attended Gettysburg College, majoring in chemistry and minoring in mathematics. She completed research within the chemistry department and was a chemistry laboratory teaching assistant that “pushed her towards graduate school.” In the […]
Continue reading "TPF Kristen Baker"Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel’s Path to Funding Dr. Jamie Towle-Weicksel, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Rhode Island College (RIC), joined RIC in 2015 and received tenure and promotion to her current position in July 2019. Dr. Towle-Weicksel’s mentors encouraged her to apply to multiple grant opportunities, including RI-INBRE SURF Training and Early Career Development […]
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