Author: Rebecca Fricke

Chirag Mheta (’17) has been accepted to medical school!  Congratulations!!  We can’t wait to hear which school he chooses and we wish him well in his studies.

Some Like It HOT: Protein Translation and Heat Stress in Plants Patrice A. Salomé Plant Cell 2017 29: 2075. First Published on September 5, 2017; doi:10.1105/tpc.17.00699 OPEN http://www.plantcell.org/content/29/9/2075

UMass scientist, teacher team up to develop plant experiments for middle schoolers “AMHERST — Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School science teacher Elliott Kelly held the rapt attention of everyone in his classroom on Friday, demonstrating...

AAAS Public Release: 21-Aug-2017 Plants under heat stress must act surprisingly quickly to survive UMass Amherst, Indian and Chinese biochemists find minutes matter to stressed plants For the article: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uoma-puh082117.php IMAGE: Elizabeth Vierling at UMass Amherst,...

The long term effort to clone and characterize HOT3 has finally come to fruition due to lots of early work to find the mutant and then visiting scientists who completed the characterization. The paper...

Mary Fowler completes here MS in the Applied Molecular Biotechnology program completing a project on Arabidopsis Hsp70. Mary won the prize for best poster in her class. Alyssa McQuillan graduates with honors in Biochemistry...

Mary Fowler will be working at New England Biolabs from May 15- Mid January. Here is a description of her project: Discovering and characterizing novel carbohydrate-active proteins and assessing their utility in new methods...

BMB is holding a departmental award ceremony on May 3rd and during which Ian Truebridge will be presented with the AIC graduate award.  The ceremony will be held in the Hadley Room on the...

Jesse has been granted a full-time internship opportunity from June – August 2017. Biogen describes the internship as follows: During this internship, the candidate will strive to advance understanding of inhibition of a small...