We are deeply sorry to share the tragic news of professor Daniel N. Hebert's passing. Science will be the poorer and he will be dearly missed. In this time of sorrow, community members are invited to attend these services.
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded $2.2 million to Alissa Rothchild, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an expert in tuberculosis (TB) immunology, to study the very first cells that respond to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacteria causing TB
Lillian Fritz-Laylin, a professor in the College of Natural Sciences's Department of Biology, and a member of the MCB program, was recently named as one of 26 researchers included in this year’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Program.
Thesis Title: “Investigating the Type 3 Secretion System Translocon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Establishing a Functional Assay for Translocon Assembly and Mapping the Topology of PopB.”