UNE/UMaine Ph.D. candidate Zaid Al-Abbasi was selected by the BioME Conference Award to support his presentation at the virtual 2021 Society for Neuroscience meeting.

Zaid’s research project “Rapgef Family Members Expressed In Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Contribute To Erk Phosphorylation Downstream Of Gs-coupled Receptors“, presented at the at the virtual 2021 Society for Neuroscience meeting took place online November 8-11.

Zaid is a student in the multi-institution Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering led by the University of Maine, doing his doctoral work under the direction of Dr. Derek Molliver, in Department of Biomedical Sciences University of New England.