Author: Rebecca Fricke

Go to Grow Food Amherst for a great write up by John Gerber: http://www.growfoodamherst.org/gmo/

Thursday, March 27, 2013 – BMB Club members, plus Umaru Barrie from the Vierling Lab and one enthusiastic Public Health major led roundtable discussions at Amherst Regional High School for 35 students.  Topics on...

Nathen Bopp – Recipient of the BMB Leading Strand Award which is given to the BMB major who has shown leadership, initiative and a demonstrated strength in working well with others.   Mary Fowler...

Congratulations Damian for receiving the American Institute of Chemists Award!  The AIC Student Award Program honors outstanding seniors, post-baccalaureate, and post-doctoral students majoring in chemistry, chemical engineering or biochemistry. The awards are given in...

Stephanie and Nathen spend a Saturday with Girls, Inc. exploring the principles of Darwin and adaptation! The girls simulate natural selection through a scavenger game with pinto beans. The whole bunch along with our...

For full article and good photos: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/umass_celebrates_official_open.html#incart_hbx#incart_best-of AMHERST – There was a sense of déjà vu among the some of the more one hundred who gathered in an empty space in the $160 million...

Proteins, crucial elements in all life forms, often perform the same functions across species. Biochemist Elizabeth Vierling is curious about this interspecies connection and her research sheds light on the molecular mechanisms of plant...

Biochemistry and molecular biology professor Elizabeth Vierling in the lab with students Stella Cabrera (left) and Luz Acevedo (right)       Professor Vierling, Senior Nathen Bopp and Lab Technician Stephanie Craig worked with...

Vierling Lab hires new staff! Stephanie Craig – Lab Technician Damian Guerra – Postdoc Eman Basha – Visiting Scientist (June – August)

Our new lab space in the New Laboratory Sciences Building (NLSB) is state of the art! The lab benches are larger than what we have been working on and best of all there will...