UMass MCB

Save the Date!

Join us to support Heather Sherman from the Minter Lab and Osbourne Lab who will be defending her dissertation this month! Congrats Heather!

Monday, March 23
2:30 PM
ISB 329

Save the Date!

Join us to support Rilee Zeinert from the Chien Lab who will defend his dissertation "The Lon protease integrates protein quality control with DNA damage responses in Caulobacter crescentus.” Congrats Rilee!

Thursday, March 19
9:30 AM
ISB 221

Yay! Another dissertation defense. Be sure to come out and congratulate Constance Angelou from the Pobezinsky Lab (https://www.pobezinskylab.com/) who will present on "Defining the let-7 microRNA-mediated molecular mechanisms regulating T cell differentiation"

Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020
9:00AM
Morrill II, Rm 222

MCBers- Save the Date!

Please join us to support one of our own! Nils Pilotte from the Williams Lab (http://www.science.smith.edu/sawlab/) will defend his dissertation "Improved Molecular Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths.” Congrats Nils!

Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020
2:00 PM
LSL N610

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Shelly Peyton
of the Chemical Engineering Department who has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows – Class of 2020

Congratulations to Archit Rastogi of the Timme-Laragy Lab who was recently awarded the Irwin Fridovich YIA Award at the SFRBM Annual Conference.

Happy Monday MCBers!
Today for our colloquium series we will hear from:

Heather Sherman (Advisors: Minter/Osborne, VASCI) - 5th year and Rebecca Gordon (Advisor: Siegrist, Microbiology) - 2nd year.

Colloquium is held in LGRT 1634 at 12:15! Come early for 🍕

Join us to support one of our own! Trisha Zintel from the Babbit Lab will defend her dissertation "De-coding the impact of evolved changes in gene expression and cellular phenotype on primate evolution”.

Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 2019
9:00 AM
LSL N410

Hey MCBers!

The order form for the MCB fleeces is now available so get yours today (please see email from Scott)! Orders should be placed by Nov. 15th (TOMORROW) to guarantee delivery before the holidays :)

Congratulations to MCB faculty Dr. Matt Moore (Food Science) and Dr. Min Chen (Chemistry) who received a grant through U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to develop portable sensing devices to identify and subtype foodborne pathogens!

https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-researchers-develop-new?_ga=2.230909851.506104987.1573741200-678230992.1547839336

UMass Amherst Researchers Develop New Technology to Detect Foodborne Disease