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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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! 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 […]
Continue reading "CRCF Instrumentation in Action"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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Dr. Nicolas Lux Fawzi An internationally recognized leader in his field April 4, 2022. Dr. Nicolas Lux Fawzi is one of two recipients of The Protein Science Young Investigator Award (The Protein Society, 2022), for making an important contribution to the study of proteins. Dr. Fawzi is an Associate Professor of Medical Science at Brown […]
Continue reading "Nicolas Lux Fawzi"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 […]
Continue reading "Student Focus Alexia Martins"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 […]
Continue reading "CRCF CCRI Student Tours"Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) – Instrumentation Updates – Demonstrations, Seminars and Workshops CRCF Instrumentation Update – Summer 2023 Two state-of-the-art Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) instruments, the Agilent 6470B Triple Quadrupole and Thermo Orbitrap Exploris 240, were installed in the Spring, with a combined cost of one million dollars, bringing significant advancements to the CRCF‘s […]
Continue reading "CRCF Instrument Update"Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium 2022 The second Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium (RIMS) was held virtually in January 2022. The goal of this symposium is to promote microbiome and microbial research in Rhode Island and the Northeast by bringing together researchers from state universities and hospitals who currently work on microbiome research or who are interested […]
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Community College of Rhode Island Faculty Fellowship Program The RI-INBRE Faculty Fellowship Program* (FFP) provides funds for Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) faculty interested in participating in a 10-week summer sabbatical, undertaking research or educational projects at the University of Rhode Island or Brown University. The research fields include cancer, environmental health sciences, neuroscience, and […]
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