Department of Biological Sciences

Two descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose immortal cells have since became one of the most important tools in medicine, speak to large crowd at USM.

USM will host a lecture featuring the descendants of Henrietta Lacks as they explore ethics, race, and the commercialization of human tissue on Oct. 13.

Biology majors Grace McKenzie, Mariah Farrell, and Ron Helderman were among the students who presented results of their 2016-2017 internships at Maine Medical Center Research Institute in April.

Dr. Lisa Moore coauthored work on a tool developed to pull descriptive information about microbial traits from the literature, generating a matrix to study evolutionary relationships. USM undergraduates enrolled in microbiology courses contributed to the project.

Biology student, and one of the world's top-rated slam poets, honored as an Inauguration Scholar

Biology students honored as Inauguration Scholars

Anne Honeywell (M.S. Biology, 2014) published "Intensity, rate, and outcome of agonistic interactions in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina concolor) vary with density on haul-out ledges," coauthored with her thesis advisor, Dr. Chris Maher, in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Dr. Jeff Walker and Sean Caddigan, an Exercise Science major who graduated in May, coauthored the paper, "Performance trade-offs and individual quality in decathletes," which was published recently in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Dr. Lisa Moore, Professor of Biology, is co-organizer of the Next Generation Phenomics workshop, which brings together researchers from throughout the country and will be held 7-8 July on the USM Portland campus.

As part of their capstone course this spring, Biology majors Jennifer Suttles and Susan Duong wrote an Op-Ed article on the Human Microbiome that was published in the Bangor Daily News.