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Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D.

Professor
Our Danny Cancer Fund Chair in Biomedical Research II   

  
   
Ph.D.:  1992, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Postdoctoral research:  University of Utah
   
Office: UMass Chan Medical School
364 Plantation Street, LRB-423
Worcester, MA 01605
Phone:   508-856-6733
Email:   Eric.Baehrecke@umassmed.edu

Research

Lab Website

We study how autophagy is regulated and functions in animals. We use Drosophila, mammalian cell lines and mice as models to study autophagy, and our work focuses on understanding how autophagy functions in different cells and tissues, as well as under different types of cell stress.

Click here for a complete list of published work

Rotation Projects

Current projects are focused on understanding how autophagy is regulated and functions in the context of cell health and cell death, the identification of novel factors and pathways that regulate autophagy in different cell contexts, how specific cargoes are selected for clearance by autophagy, and the function of autophagy in models of disease.

Positions available

Motivated students and postdoctoral associates are encouraged to apply.  Contact Dr. Baehrecke

In the News

Getting Results…
  • Musically minded PhD candidate targets movement disorders through fruit flies

    Musically minded PhD candidate targets movement disorders through fruit flies

    PhD candidate Lucas Restrepo tackles movement disorders using fruit fly genetics and, in his spare time, plays the banjo.

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  • Eric Baehrecke, Jeanne Lawrence and Alan Mullen appointed to endowed chairs

    Eric Baehrecke, Jeanne Lawrence and Alan Mullen appointed to endowed chairs

    Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the University’s Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of three of faculty members to endowed chairs. They join more than 60 named chairs at UMass Chan.

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  • PhD student Megan Honeywell receives prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral award

    PhD student Megan Honeywell receives prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral award

    In her preliminary studies, PhD student Megan Honeywell has found that cells can trigger a cell death even when they do not have the p53 protein, the so-called “guardian of the genome.”

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  • GSBS Class of 2021 weather COVID pandemic, graduate with ‘life lessons’

    GSBS Class of 2021 weather COVID pandemic, graduate with ‘life lessons’

    The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Class of 2021 managed to complete their research despite having experiments halted for months by the COVID-19 pandemic. Heather Loring and James Shen reflect on the past year.

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