UMass Brachypodium Consortium

Plant Biology Graduate Program

Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program

The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuel Research

Budding scientist Rachel Dannay has received an ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and graduate student Pubudu Handakumbura a travel grant to attend the Plant Biology 2013 Annual Meeting.
3/12/13

The Hazen Lab is set to move into the Life Science Laboratories in May 2013. Check out some of our new space.
1/7/13

The Hazen Lab is set to move into the Life Science Laboratories in May 2013. Check out some of our new space.
1/7/13

The 2012 Best Talk Award at the Life Sciences Graduate Student Symposium goes to Pubudu Handakumbura, who presented a talk titled, "BdMYB48 directly controls the accumulation of biomass in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon."
11/19/12

Four UMass Brachypodium Consortium scientists invited to present findings at Plant & Animal Genome XXI Conference
11/16/12

Pubudu Handakumbura has received the 2012-2013 Gilgut Fellowship.
5/19/12

See our review of grass wall regulation in Frontiers.
4/23/12

Undergraduate Brachypodium researcher Mike Veling wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship Award.
4/6/12

Undergrads Mike Veling and Scotty Barish present at the Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium.
3/9/12

Microbiologists and plant biologists teamed up to develop an assay to measure the feedstock quality of plant biomass.
2/8/12

US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and UMass initiate project to develop biofuel research tools.
1/28/12