Investigator Focus Jyothi U, Menon, PhD – Cancer Moonshot Scholar Dr. Jyothi U. Menon has the prestigious honor of being one of eleven researchers selected to the inaugural cohort of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Scholars program! The National Institutes of Health 5-year (2023-2028) R01/R37 award, from the National Cancer Institute is entitled “Multifunctional Nanoparticle Platform to […]
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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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2023 RI IDeA Emerging Area of Science Symposium The Emerging Areas of Science IDeA Symposium was held on June 1st at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in collaboration with Rhode Island’s IDeA programs Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) and Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), and Advance Clinical and Translational […]
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Investigator: Reza Abiri, University of Rhode Island Mentor: Walter Besio, University of Rhode Island Theme: Neuroscience Title: Biosensors for the detection of thiol-containing biomacromolecules via cationic aromatic compounds Award: Early Career Development (2022-2024) Abstract: The ability to focus attention and encode the information are among the brain’s most important cognitive and perceptive functions. Different neurological […]
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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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RI-INBRE’s PUI Faculty Investigators Request for URI Affiliates Access RI-INBRE’s “PUI Faculty Investigators” may request remote access to URI’s electronic library resources of e-Journals, and Databases of abstracts, articles, eBooks, and more. To request “URI Affiliates Access” please complete the form below. Requests will be submitted to URI human resources for approval and setup. After […]
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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 […]
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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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Bridge to Graduate School Fellows 2023 Bridge Fellows Our Bridge to Graduate School program hosted two former RI-INBRE SURF students’ research during this summer and both are both enrolled in graduate school at Brown University in the fall. Joseph Leszczynski’s summer undergraduate research in 2022 focused on “Chromosome Organization and Dynamics: Mechanisms of Cancer” and […]
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