Dustin Updike is an Associate Professor at MDI Biological Laboratory. Dustin's work looks at how stem cells maintain pluripotency -- the capacity to become other cell types in the body. Dustin and his team use some of the newest and most innovative biological research tools - including CRISPR - to study C. elegans nematodes.
More about the Maine INBRE program: https://inbre.maineidea.net/. And you can see some images of C. elegans at https://youtu.be/byFjiXBamKM.
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The 2022 Maine Science Festival Call for Ideas is open (https://www.mainesciencefestival.org/call-for-ideas) until November 19, 2021.
Tickets are now on sale for the 2022 Headliner: The Warming Sea - an exploration of Hope in the face of the climate crisis. (thewarmingsea.me) - March 19, 2022, 7pm, Collins Center for the Arts.
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