Author: Rebecca Fricke

Dylan McLaughlin has just accepted a job as a Research Associate I at The Broad Institute as part of the Production Team of the Genetic Perturbation Platform. As a research associate he will be...

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Vierling! She was elected to the Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences section of the National Academy of Sciences. This is one of the highest professional distinctions for a scientist –...

Lauren Velie was awarded the BMB Department, Henry Little Award for Excellence in Biochemistry and Dylan McLaughlin was awarded the Leading Strand Award for BMB Excellence in Biochemistry. Congratulations to you both. We wish...

Emma, President of the UMass a cappella group S#arp Attitude, just let us know that the group’s newly released album, Hallucinate, was nominated for two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARAs): Best Upper Voices Collegiate...

A new Vierling Lab article has hit the press and Minsoo is the first author. Fionn was part of the Vierling Lab a few years ago and Prof. Vierling is doing her part to...

Publicity about Dr. Vierling’s latest NSF grant is now hitting the press. Check it out here! AMHERST, Mass. – The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that it will support the efforts of a...

Congratulations to Dylan McLaughlin, Sam Satish Kumar, Lauren Velie and Emma Peterson for having their lab research approved for $1000 Commonwealth Honors College grants.

The article “Focus on Nitric Oxide Homeostasis: Direct and Indirect Enzymatic Regulation of Protein Denitrosation Reactions in Plants” has been published in Antioxidants as part of the Special Issue Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin Systems II...

Sunday afternoon most of the lab gathered at the northern end of the Buffam Falls trails and we walked a long loop, stopping to look at the plants (of course), listen to the birds,...

Lauren Velie, rising Senior and Vierling Lab member, was featured on trajectory a podcast about student success at UMass Amherst. Here’s a link to it on Spotify  Congratulations Lauren! Episode Description UMass Junior Lauren...