Author: Rebecca Fricke

Congratulations to Vierling Lab member Minsoo Kim for being selected as a recipient of 2016 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research Early-Career Researcher Funding. The fund is generously provided through a grant from the National...

Congratulations are due to Mary Fowler for being awarded the 2016 recipient of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Leading Strand Award! This award is given to the BMB major who has shown leadership, initiative...

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Undergraduate Chirag Mehta received a UMASS Honors Research Grant in support of his biochemistry research.  He will be working with  Professor Elizabeth Vierling on a research project “Introduction of BPA into Hsp16.6 in Synechocystis”...

“Wang lab identifies a key molecule in nitrogen-fixing bacteria  Dong Wang, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department and members of his lab, including lead author and postdoctoral researcher Minsoo Kim, and former undergraduate student Chris...

Professor Vierling will be giving a scientific talk on the science of  plant genetic modifications at the 2015 New England Vegetable and Fruit Converence, December 15-17.

Professor Vierling participated in a forum sponsored by Senator Will Brownsberger ( D, Belmont) in order to provide the public with more information.  Check out his blog posting for a complete statement by the...

On Tuesday, November 3rd Girls Inc. from Holyoke came to the UMASS campus and shadowed UMASS women in STEM.  The girls attended one class, toured their UMASS student’s lab and ate lunch in Worcester...

The morning included Getting to Know You games, skits, and round-table talks on college topics like Extra-curricular Activities, STEM classes, Social Life, and Non-Stem Classes.       The pizza and lemonade were delicious...