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BMB Blog Posts

Jul 31, 2024

Celebrating RNA Day with Dr. Thoru Pederson

Join us (the BMB) in celebrating RNA Day by learning more about the innovative bioengineering by the Pederson Lab.

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May 10, 2024

Dr. Brian Kelch Receives the Education Service Award, 2024

Dr. Brian Kelch received the Education Service Award in 2024! Learn more about his dedication to education in this blog post.

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Latest News

Latest BMB news as reported by the UMass Chan Communications Office

Chancellor Collins’ final Convocation address encourages optimism, determination

September 12, 2025
Inspired by faculty mentor, MD/PhD candidate pursuing dermatology

July 14, 2025
UMass Chan celebrates naming of Paul J. DiMare Center

July 10, 2025
Kristen Matteson and Mary Munson selected for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women

June 12, 2025
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences honors students during annual awards ceremony

May 30, 2025
Educational Recognition Awards, Last Lecture celebrate UMass Chan’s collaborative environment

May 08, 2025
Origen Biotechnology funds research at UMass Chan to advance gene therapy technology

May 07, 2025
UMass Chan faculty present translational research at BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase

March 14, 2025
New research examines mechanisms of protein complex at basic cell biological level

January 14, 2025
PhD student among first to join UMass Chan program focused on quantitative skills

December 09, 2024
UMass Chan community invited to ponder meaning of ‘advancing together’ at art exhibit

September 25, 2024
UMass Memorial Health gift, with matching funds from UMass Foundation, to fund five new endowed chairs at UMass Chan

September 19, 2024
Convocation 2024: UMass Chan racing toward ambitious future

September 13, 2024
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences celebrates largest class at qualifying exam ceremony

September 12, 2024
UMass Chan kicks off 2024 academic year with weeklong Convocation celebration

August 30, 2024
UMass Chan neuroscientist receives $4.1 million Transformative Research Award to study Down syndrome

July 16, 2024

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Recent Publications

Total: 15 results

Subnanometer-resolution Structural Determination of Hemagglutinin from Cryo-electron Tomography of Influenza Viruses

Monday, November 24, 2025

Author(s): Qiuyu J Huang,Clint N McDaniel,Alijah A Griffith,Celia A Schiffer,Mohan Somasundaran

Source: Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Normal Immune Function in a Newborn With Early Identification of a SAMD9 Mutation Presenting With Growth Restriction, Thrombocytopenia, and Primary Adrenal Insufficiency

Friday, November 21, 2025

Author(s): Kevin MingJie Gao,Qiu Yu Judy Huang,Polly Huang,Anum Muzaffar,Ramin Beheshti,Robert Wood,Jennifer Dantzer,Maria J Gutierrez

Source: Clinical case reports
Triazole-based STING inhibitors

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Author(s): Anju Singh,Leonard Barasa,Leo DeOrsey,Maeve D O'Reilly,Shruti Choudhary,Sara E Cahill,Thomas Rossetti,Robert Madison Green,Fiachra Humphries,Paul R Thompson

Source: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry
PCNA is a nucleotide exchange factor for the clamp loader ATPase complex

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Author(s): Joshua Pajak,Jacob T Landeck,Xingchen Liu,Krishna Anand,Sasha Litvak,Brian A Kelch

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Phage SSB detection by retron Eco8 msDNA unleashes nuclease-mediated immunity

Friday, October 31, 2025

Author(s): Chengzhi Yu,Chen Wang,Taylor Forman,Jiale Xie,Samantha Major,Matthew X Fang,Jewel E Voyer,Joe Pogliano,Tian-Min Fu

Source: Molecular cell
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Author(s): Needhi Bhalla,JoAnn Trejo,Mary Munson

Source: Nature cell biology
David Baltimore and the advent of eukaryotic RNA binding proteins

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Author(s): Thoru Pederson

Source: Molecular biology of the cell
Cellular infrastructure: X-rays have just made another soft landing

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Author(s): Thoru Pederson

Source: Molecular biology of the cell
Global conformation of the Rag GTPase heterodimer governs eukaryotic amino acid sensing

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Author(s): Dylan D Doxsey,Kuang Shen

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Predicting the Impact of Drug Resistance Mutations on Inhibitor Potency with Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Author(s): Lauren E Intravaia,Ala M Shaqra,Somayeh Pirhadi,Noa Popko,Nese Kurt Yilmaz,Celia A Schiffer

Source: The journal of physical chemistry. B
Optimization of VE607 to generate analogs with improved neutralization activities against SARS-CoV-2 variants

Monday, October 13, 2025

Author(s): Shilei Ding,Derek Yang,Irfan Ullah,Ling Niu,Matthew Unger,Marco A Díaz-Salinas,Monika Chandravanshi,Fei Zhou,Guillaume Beaudoin-Bussières,Mehdi Benlarbi,William D Tolbert,Keon-Woong Yoon,Ruixue Xu,Gen...

Source: Journal of virology
Gli3R-mediated inhibition of hedgehog signaling alters the embryonic transcriptome in zebrafish

Friday, September 26, 2025

Author(s): Anna J Moyer,Summer B Thyme

Source: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Next-Generation Multiplexed Targeted Proteomics Quantifies Post-Translational Modifications, Compound-Protein Interactions, and Disease Biomarkers with High Throughput

Friday, September 26, 2025

Author(s): Steven R Shuken,Geordon A Frere,Charlotte R Beard,Jesse D Canterbury,Nathan R Zuniga,Brandon M Gassaway,Shane L Dawson,Kean Hean Ooi,João A Paulo,M Windy McNerney,Steven P Gygi,Qing Yu

Source: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Author(s): Stephen Curry,Eunice Mercado-Lara,Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza,C Glenn Begley,Christophe Bernard,René Bernard,Stefano Bertuzzi,Needhi Bhalla,Dawn Bowers,Samuel Brod,Christopher Chambers,Michael R Doughe...

Source: PLoS biology
RNA/DNA-binding protein TDP43 regulates DNA mismatch repair genes with implications for genome stability

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Author(s): Vincent E Provasek,Albino Bacolla,Suganya Rangaswamy,Manohar Kodavati,Joy Mitra,Issa O Yusuf,Vikas H Malojirao,Velmarini Vasquez,Gavin W Britz,Guo-Min Li,Zuoshang Xu,Sankar Mitra,Ralph M Garruto,John ...

Source: Nucleic acids research

A full list of department publications can be found here.

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Dr. Kaushik Ragunathan
Dr. Kaushik Ragunathan 12pm

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Dr. Kaushik Ragunathan, from Brandeis University
Title: “Finding stability amidst chaos: how dynamic chromatin interactions produce heritable epigenetic states.”
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RIPS Unger/Woodilla
RIPS Unger/Woodilla 4pm

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Matthew Unger (Munro Lab) "Investigating an HA mediated mechanism of avian IAV host tropism"

Christopher Woodilla (Redding Lab) Title TBD
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RIPS Sholi/Magana
RIPS Sholi/Magana 4pm

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Emily Sholi (Kelch Lab)

Helen Magana (Munson Lab)
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No school 8am
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Dr. Nick Rhind
Dr. Nick Rhind 12pm
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RIPS David/Ahsan
RIPS David/Ahsan 4pm

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Serena David (Flavahan Lab)

Rakeyah Ahsan (Korostelev Lab)
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Dr. Holly Soutter
Dr. Holly Soutter 12:00 PM
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RIPS Anand/Tran
RIPS Anand/Tran 4pm

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Krishna Anand (Kelch Lab)

Khanh Tran (Chan Lab)
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UMass Research Retreat
UMass Research Retreat 8am
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UMass Research Retreat
UMass Research Retreat 8am
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NO RIPS - HALLOWEEN
NO RIPS - HALLOWEEN 8am

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