PVMS 2024!
Here are some highlights of PVMS 2024:
Attendees fill the halls of UMass ISB!
Keynote speaker Vicki Jeffers explains the essential role of bromodomain proteins in Toxoplasma tachyzoites.
PVMS organizer Raveen Armstrong with the best talk winner Adri K. Grow who presented on the phylogenomics and uncultivable microeukaryotes: Insights into the species diversity and population dynamics of coastal benthic foraminifera.
Presenter Billi Kozak presents on the Impact of Temperature on Junonia coenia Densovirus Infections of Euphydryas phaeton, the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly.
Attendees enjoy a poster session at PVMS 2024!
Presenter Samantha Schultz discusses the role of m6A reader protein IGF2BP1 in promotion of RNA stability during Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus infection.
Presenter Kiserian Jackson discusses assessing factors of the mycobacterial cellular envelope impacting antibiotic permeation.
Attendees pack the auditorium of UMass ISB.
PVMS 2024 loves UMass Dining!
PVMS 2020
Relive PVMS 2020 by visiting our photos!
Here are some highlights of PVMS 2020:
Mrinalini Ghoshal and Liv Dedon, Best Posters
Charles Bridges, Best Talk
PVMS poster presenters pack the halls at UMass Amehrst
PVMS 2020 Organizing Committee
Keynote Dr. Peter Chien
Keynote Dr. John Gibbons
Keynote Dr. Wendy Mok
PVMS 2019
PVMS Organizer Srishti Kashyap with the winners of Best Poster (Korin Albert) and Best Talk (Elisa Bello)
PVMS 2019 Awards: custom-made microscopes!
Keynote Speaker Sarah Hird explains The Avian Microbiome: Past, Present and Future
Keynote Speaker Mandy Mueller engages the audience after her talk, Manipulation of RNA stability: a cornerstone of the viral-host battle
Keynote Speaker Marco Keiluweit discusses Spatial Variations in Microbial Processes Controlling Carbon Oxidation Rates in Soils
PVMS 2019 Poster Session
PVMS 2019 Organizers Emily Melzer and Srishti Kashyap
PVMS 2016
Welcome to the Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium 2016!
Ju and Gina working hard during registration
Smiling faces of Valley Microbes
Dr. Steven Sandler starting out event off right!
Kamal Joshi talking about protease adaptors and cell cycle regulation
Iron chelating activity explained by Ms Emily Roy
Erin Amato isolated a novel spirochete from compost
Posters
Leschine Lab, SMILE!
Caroline Keroack and Kalani Williams of Smith College standing with their winning poster!
The Sela Lab with their man Troy Hinkley (Center) who won the Best Talk prize!
The Original Valley Microbes
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