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The Vierling Lab works on a Mighty Cool Plant - Vierling Lab members have known for decades that Arabidopsis thaliana is a great plant. Now there’s even more reason to admire Arabidopsis thanks to research done by Dr. Tomokazu Kawashima at the University of...
Alina’s Ready to Lift Off! - We will miss Alina Shkurikhina this summer as she jets off to California. Alina was just awarded an internship which is part of the Space Life Sciences Training Program. The program will last 10...
Another Award Winner from the Vierling Lab! - Nicole Steinmeyer has been awarded the 2025 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Award for undergraduate students in Biochemistry. Congratulations!
Congratuations Alina and Kate - Two of Prof. Vierling’s undergraduates were given awards this week. Alina Shkurikhina – Was awarded the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Jessica Hayes Memorial Scholarship to honor her record of high academic achievement and...
Patrick Paper is now complete and online! - Disrupted nitric oxide homeostasis impacts fertility through multiple processes including protein quality control Patrick Treffon, Elizabeth Vierling Author Notes Plant Physiology, Volume 197, Issue 1, January 2025, kiae609, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae609
Vierling Undergrads Awarded Grant Funding - Congratulations to our Vierling undergraduates – Kate, Alina, Nick and Nicole- for receiving funding from the UMass Honors College. We can’t wait to see all the research that gets done this spring!
The Vierling lab visits Bezanilla lab at Dartmouth College - The Vierling lab visited our collaborating Bezanilla lab at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Learned about working with Physcomitrium patens and new data on mitochondrial ATAD3 proteins!
Congratulations Haofeng - Haofeng Lin was awarded a $750 Research Fellowship Grant from the UMass HonorsCollege for Fall 2024 semester.
Congratulations Salma! - Congratulations to Salma for being admited into the Interdisciplinary Molecular Biosciences Graduate Program for the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in the fall of 2024 at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Salma says, “This opportunity marks...
Congratulations to Elana! - The good news from Vierling Lab alumnae continues to roll into our email inboxes. Elana Carleton committed to UMass Med for her MD/PhD! She says, “It was such a long application process and I...
Congratulations Nora!! - Vierling Lab Alumna, Nora Haggerty, joins Johns Hopkins PhD program inbiochemistry and molecular biology. We wish you all the best.
New Publication in The Plant Cell - Check out the latest from the Vierling Lab! Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Tianxiang, Shengbao and Elizabeth. Maternal nitric oxide homeostasis impacts female gametophyte development under optimal and stress conditions  Junzhe Wang, Xiaolong...
New Article Out in the Plant Journal! - Structural and biochemical characterization of Arabidopsis alcohol dehydrogenases reveals distinct functional properties but similar redox sensitivity Maria Meloni, Jacopo Rossi, Silvia Fanti, Giacomo Carloni, Daniele Tedesco, Patrick Treffon, Luca Piccinini, Giuseppe Falini, Paolo Trost, Elizabeth Vierling, Francesco Licausi, Beatrice Giuntoli, Francesco Musiani, Simona Fermani, Mirko Zaffagnini DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16651
Prof Vierling announces the publication of two articles - The Vierling lab has two new publications: one is on ATAD3 proteins and the other is on heat stress in tropical trees. Congratulations! Waters, E., M. Bezanilla, E. Vierling. ATAD3 Proteins: Unique Mitochondrial Proteins Essential for...
Congratulations Haofeng Lin - 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...