Ian Finds Employment
Recent graduate Ian Truebridge will be working as an Associate Scientist under Dr. Christopher Bahl. The new protein-biotech company is the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI) and it is located in the Harvard Medical...
Author: Rebecca Fricke
Another Vierling article out!
Cell Stress and Chaperones pp 1–10 | Cite as Structural and functional aspects of the interaction partners of the small heat-shock protein in Synechocystis Authors Authors and affiliations Erik G. Marklund Yichen Zhang Eman Basha Justin L. P. BeneschEmail author Elizabeth VierlingEmail...
Study Suggests Evolutionary Change in Protein Function Respects Biophysical Principles
“AMHERST, Mass. – Some molecular biologists who study the proteins that regulate cell operations, including Elizabeth Vierling at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, do not confine their research to understanding the molecules’ current roles....
Cool Plant Parasite Science
“Dodder, a parasitic plant that levies millions of dollars’ worth of damage on crops each year is a stealthy invader with the ability to wage war on the genes of its host plants. The...
Sam Receives Summer Internship
Sam received an internship opportunity at Merck Research Labs in Boston. He will be working in the immuno-oncology department. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Mary!
Mary Fowler is starting a new full time job at Manus Biosynthesis on Monday. It is a small start up Cambridge which focuses on manipulating metabolic pathways in E. coli to produce rare...
Congratulations Dr. Keith
Keith Ballard has accepted a Research Scientist position in the Expenditionary and Special Programs Division of Liberty BioSecurity, LLC. He is part of a team of multi-disceplinary scientists that use advanced molecular biology, biochemistry...
Chirag’s Good news!
Chirag Mehta, former honors student in the Vierling Lab is going to the Robert Wood Johnson medical school starting this summer. Congratulations Chirag!
UMass Scientists Make Bigger Tomatoes!
UMass student Jarrett Man and Prof. Madelaine Bartlett are doing important work in the agricultural field. Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing Daniel Rodríguez-Leal , Zachary H. Lemmon , Jarrett...
Congratulations – we have two new doctors in the house!
Keith Ballard celebrates his new title. He will move on to the job market with a PhD – we wish him the best of luck. ...