Haley Aponte has recently joined the lab as a new Master’s student. She successfully earned her B.S. in Biology from UMass Amherst in May of this year. As an undergraduate, she gained valuable research experience during a summer internship at the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge Innovation Institute. Haley will be taking over Casey’s drug delivery project. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Haley!
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Kashif joins the lab
Kashif Chowdhury, a new Microbiology PhD student, joins the lab for the fall semester rotation. Welcome!
Hiro’s paper published in eLife
Hiro’s work, entitled “A cell wall synthase accelerates plasma membrane partitioning in mycobacteria”, was published in eLife. In this collaborative work, Hiro showed that PonA2 mediates membrane partitioning during recovery from membrane fluidizing stress. It is a pioneering work to reveal the mechanism of membrane compartmentalization in mycobacteria. Congratulations!!
Tristan at REU Poster Symposium
Tristan presents his research progress at the all campus REU Poster Symposium. Olivia, an MMID Summer Research Fellow, was also at the symposium, presenting the work she conducted under the guidance of Bipro in the Andrew’s lab and Hiro.
Summer research experience for high school students
We are supporting two students from local high schools to experience research in microbiology. They will work with Ian Sparks to visualize mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis under fluorescence microscopy to determine genes important for cell growth and division.
Tristan joins the lab
Tristan Grieve, an undergraduate researcher supported by the Lee SIP Program, joins the lab. Welcome Tristan!
Malavika and Hiro at BBM
Malavika and Hiro presented their posters at the Boston Bacterial Meeting.
Ian gives poster presentation at Gordon Conference
Ian presented his poster entitled “Lipoarabinomannan regulates septation in Mycobacterium smegmatis” at the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development Gordon Research Conference.
Andre wraps up his PREP year
Andre reporting his work on fatty acid desaturation mechanisms in Mycobacterium smegmatis during the final poster session for the UMass PREP program. Many thanks Andre for your hard work and best wishes for your future!
Ed continues cyanobacteria work
Ed York, a Master’s student in the Applied Molecular Biotechnology Graduate Program, joins the lab as a summer intern to continue their work on genetic manipulation of cyanobacteria. Welcome!