Author: Rebecca Fricke

Photo taken at the BMB Awards Ceremony on 5/2/2025.

Vierling Lab members have known for decades that Arabidopsis thaliana is a great plant. Now there’s even more reason to admire Arabidopsis thanks to research done by Dr. Tomokazu Kawashima at the University of...

We will miss Alina Shkurikhina this summer as she jets off to California. Alina was just awarded an internship which is part of the Space Life Sciences Training Program. The program will last 10...

Nicole Steinmeyer has been awarded the 2025 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Award for undergraduate students in Biochemistry. Congratulations!

Two of Prof. Vierling’s undergraduates were given awards this week. Alina Shkurikhina – Was awarded the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Jessica Hayes Memorial Scholarship to honor her record of high academic achievement and...

Disrupted nitric oxide homeostasis impacts fertility through multiple processes including protein quality control Patrick Treffon, Elizabeth Vierling Author Notes Plant Physiology, Volume 197, Issue 1, January 2025, kiae609, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae609

Congratulations to our Vierling undergraduates – Kate, Alina, Nick and Nicole- for receiving funding from the UMass Honors College. We can’t wait to see all the research that gets done this spring!

The Vierling lab visited our collaborating Bezanilla lab at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Learned about working with Physcomitrium patens and new data on mitochondrial ATAD3 proteins!

Haofeng Lin was awarded a $750 Research Fellowship Grant from the UMass HonorsCollege for Fall 2024 semester.