UMass Medical School

04/19/21

Thoru Pederson’s April editorial in the FASEB Journal

Departing the coast of dystopia

04/15/21

Rhind Lab's Livio Dukaj publishes paper in PLoS Genetics

The capacity of origins to load MCM establishes replication timing patterns

04/12/21

Imbalzano Lab's Sabriya Syed featured as BMP Diversity Profile of the Month

Don't miss this month's featured BMP Diversity Profile!

04/08/21

Rando Lab and Mandon Lab awarded NIH R01 MPI grant

“Regulation of tRNA fragment biogenesis and function by nucleotide modification”

04/05/21

Schiffer Lab collaborating with EpiVax to combine proprietary immunoinformatics approaches and structural modeling methods to design optimized antigens for inclusion in seasonal and pandemic recombinant HA vaccine candidates

Read all about their new joint collaborative efforts here.

04/01/21

Rhind Lab publishes paper in Genetics

The fission yeast S-phase cyclin Cig2 can drive mitosis

03/29/21

We appreciate our BMP campus workers!

BMP Leadership Team shows their appreciation

03/25/21

Kelch Lab's Emily Agnello featured as BMP Diversity Profile of the Month

Don't miss this month's featured BMP Diversity Profile!

03/22/21

Thoru Pederson’s March editorial in the FASEB Journal

Protein structure: Has Levinthal's paradox "folded"?

03/18/21

Joe Magrino of the Kelch Lab awarded F31 fellowship

“Investigating sliding clamps and their contribution to genome stability”

03/15/21

Schiffer Lab publishes paper in Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Interactions of APOBEC3s with DNA and RNA

03/11/21

Rando Lab’s Carolina Galan publishes study on post-testicular changes in sperm cytosine methylation, in PLoS Genetics

Stability of the cytosine methylome during post-testicular sperm maturation in mouse

03/08/21

Drs. Sharma and Syed present talks at virtual conference

Virtual 2020 Asilomar Chromatin, Chromosomes & Epigenetics Conference

03/04/21

Kelch Lab publishes paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Structure of the human clamp loader reveals an autoinhibited conformation of a substrate-bound AAA+ switch

03/01/21

pd|hub, led by BMP’s Dr. Cynthia Fuhrmann, releases report, "Enhancing dissemination of evidence-based models for STEM PhD career and professional development"

Report presents findings from pd|hub’s NSF-funded convening of leaders in STEM PhD and postdoctoral education

02/25/21

The Small Molecule Screening Facility hires new Manager

02/22/21

Thoru Pederson’s most recent editorial in the FASEB Journal - Remembering and admiring the CDC

"During the American sector of the coronavirus pandemic there have been missteps and yet other successes…. Here I wish to recall for us how the CDC came to be, recognize its catalytic inaugural scientist, and comment on a recent issue."

02/19/21

Schiffer and Thompson Labs publish paper in Viruses

Crystal Structure of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease in Complex with the Non-Covalent Inhibitor ML188

02/15/21

Schiffer Lab publishes paper in Nature Communications.

Unique structural solution from a V H 3-30 antibody targeting the hemagglutinin stem of influenza A viruses

02/11/21

Sumner Burstein, PhD, publishes paper in Molecular Pharmacology

Molecular Mechanisms for the Inflammation-Resolving Actions of Lenabasum

02/08/21

Schiffer Lab publishes paper in ACS Chemical Reviews

Drug Design Strategies to Avoid Resistance in Direct-Acting Antivirals and Beyond

02/04/21

Thoru Pederson invited to write account of early work by Russian biochemist Alexander Spirin (1931-2020) on messenger RNA-protein complexes for dedicatory issue of the journal Biokhimiya.

Informosomes East and West

02/01/21

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