Author: Rebecca Fricke

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...

Alyssa and Chirag have been accepted to present at the Twenty-Third Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference is Friday, April 28, at the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center at UMass Amherst.  Alyssa...

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department has selected Vierling Lab member Ian Truebridge to receive the American Institute of Chemists award for Excellence in Biochemistry, given in recognition of his demonstrated record of ability and...

Alyssa McQuillan and Chirag Mehta each received $900 from the Honors College to support buying for their thesis projects. Congratulations!

Posted December 14th, 2016 for University of Massachusetts Amherst Contact: Janet Lathrop 413/545-0444 “AMHERST, Mass. – A group of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers who are stewards of the campus’ plant cell culture library...

Plant Physiol. 2016 Oct;172(2):1221-1236. Epub 2016 Jul 29. Class I and II Small Heat Shock Proteins Together with HSP101 Protect Protein Translation Factors during Heat Stress. McLoughlin F1, Basha E1, Fowler ME1, Kim M1,...