UMass Medical School

01/14/21

Thoru Pederson appointed to new term as Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal

Reappointment effective January 2021

01/11/21

Kelch Lab hosts annual BMP Festivus Celebration

It’s a Festivus Miracle!!

01/07/21

Royer Lab publishes their first cryoEM structure

Cryo-EM Structure of CtBP2 Confirms Tetrameric Architecture

01/04/21

Nick Rhind appointed to second ASBMB 3-year term

Public Affairs Advisory Committee

12/30/20

Happy New Year!

New Year greetings from BMP Department

12/28/20

Thoru Pederson, PhD, publishes papers in Genome Biology and Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

Simultaneous epigenetic perturbation and genome imaging reveal distinct roles of H3K9me3 in chromatin architecture and transcription
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Genome architecture and expression 2019-2020: the transition phase

12/23/20

Happy Holidays!

Seasons Greetings from BMP Department

12/21/20

Celia Schiffer, PhD, leads PDB50 organizing committee

Special symposium celebrating 50th anniversary of Protein Data Bank

12/17/20

Rhind Lab has paper accepted at Genetics

The Fission Yeast S-Phase Cyclin Cig2 Can Drive Mitosis

12/14/20

Thoru Pederson appointed External Consultant to NIH 4D Nucleome Consortium

5-year term begins this month

12/10/20

Pryciak Lab publishes paper in Current Biology

Comprehensive Analysis of G1 Cyclin Docking Motif Sequences that Control CDK Regulatory Potency In Vivo

12/07/20

Rhind Lab welcomes new Postdoc, Samir Bashir

12/03/20

Pincus Medalist Marsha Moses delivers annual scientific lecture at UMass Medical School

Biomarker and nanomedicine expert reviews pioneering work in cancer diagnosis and therapy

11/30/20

Thoru Pederson, PhD, publishes paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell

A 20-year encounter with the imposter syndrome

11/23/20

Happy Thanksgiving!

Greetings from the BMP Department

11/19/20

Han Lab paper published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Highly Effective Near-Infrared Activating Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion for Photoredox Catalysis

Featured in JACS twitter account: JACS Tweet

11/16/20

BMP Faculty Member Moderates ASBMB Webinar on the Effect of the Pandemic on Non-COVID Research

Non-COVID-19 research remains important for the scientific community

11/12/20

The UMassMed Cares employee charitable giving campaign runs through November 25th

UMass Medical School Foundation Charitable Donations

11/09/20

Congratulations to BMP Faculty Member, Kendall Knight, on his recent retirement

Ken has been a most valued colleague, mentor and friend to all of us in BMP.

11/05/20

Celia Schiffer, PhD, chosen to be panelist on NIH SARS-CoV-2 antivirals panel

Friday, November 6, 2020 - 11am EST (entry link available at 1030am)

11/02/20

BMP Launches Antiracist Reading Club

The first book will be How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi, PhD

10/29/20

Thompson Lab’s collaboration with Dr. Fitzgerald Lab leads to a new publication in Science

Succination inactivates gasdermin D and blocks pyroptosis

10/26/20

Anthony Carruthers, BMP Emeritus Faculty member, reviews Membranes to Molecular Machines for FASEB Journal

This is a very readable book which explores how our understanding of the composition, structure, and function of membranes has evolved during the last century.

10/22/20

Thompson lab publishes paper in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry

Identification of the first noncompetitive SARM1 inhibitors

10/19/20

BMP Chalk Talk Returns for 2020-2021

BMP is excited to announce the resumption of our weekly departmental research seminar series.

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