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Emma Peterson’s UMass S#arp Attitude Wins Prestigious Award – Congratulations! - 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...
New Vierling Publication – Congratulations Dr. Minsoo! - 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...
The Mighty Mitochondria – So much for us left to discover - 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...
Vierling Undergrads Granted Research Funds - Congratulations to Dylan McLaughlin, Sam Satish Kumar, Lauren Velie and Emma Peterson for having their lab research approved for $1000 Commonwealth Honors College grants.
New Publication for Dr. Treffon and Dr. Vierling – Congratulations - 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...
Vierling Lab Celebrates End of Semester! - 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’s Podcast is Live - 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...
Fabian Chooses Harvard! - Fabian Suri-Payer will be heading to Harvard to join the program called Molecules, Cells and Organisms in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department. Harvard is lucky to be getting Fabian. Good luck!
Fabian and Yadwinder Present at ASBMB Annual Meeting - The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology selected Vierling Lab members Yadwinder Kaur and Fabian Suri-Payer to receive a 2022 Student Chapter Travel Award to attend the ASBMB annual meeting. The annual meeting...
Yet even more congratulations for Yadwinder and Fabian!! - Vierling Lab members Fabian Suri-Payer and Yadwinder Kaur are both being recognized by the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) Department with an award of excellence in Biochemistry. The award is based on overall GPA...
More Congratulations to Vierling Lab Undergraduates! - Lauren Velie received the BMB  Jessica Hayes Scholarship award, Emma Peterson received the Linda Slakey Award, Fabian Suri-Payer got the Henry Little award and Nora Haggerty received the BMB Leading Strand Award!! Prof. Vierling...
Congratulations Dylan – Summer Internship News - Dylan McLaughlin, (BMB-’23) will be working as a summer intern on the translational science team at Forma Therapeutics in Watertown, MA. The internship will involve developing cell based assays on cell line models to...
Congratulations to Fabian and Yadwinder! - The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology selected Vierling Lab members Yadwinder Kaur and Fabian Suri-Payer to receive a 2022 Student Chapter Travel Award to attend the ASBMB annual meeting. The annual meeting...
More good news about Honors Funding! - Congratulations Nora Haggerty and Yadwinder Kuar for receiving CHC Honors Research Grants for Spring 2022. May their research be fun and productive!