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Haofeng received a Research Assistant Fellowship through the Honors College for 2023-24. “Research Assistant Fellowships are working fellowships that pay a stipend up to a maximum of $500 for students to work on a...

Graduated Senior, Lauren Velie, presented a poster at the Plant Biology Conference in Savanah, GA – https://plantbiology.aspb.org/.

Samhitha Satish Kumar – Studied the mitochondrial ATAD3 proteins. Dylan McLaughlin –  Worked on identification and phenotypic analysis of mutants of Class I and Class II cytosolic small HSPs in Arabidopsis. Emma Peterson –...

This Monday and Tuesday all four of the Vierling Lab seniors – Lauren Velie, Dylan McLaughlin, Samhitha Satish Kumar and Emma Peterson – successfully defended their honors college thesis! We wish you the best...

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...