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	Samuel P. Hazen Principal Investigator hazen [at] bio [dot] umass [dot] edu Ph.D., Michigan State University Postdoctoral Dept of Energy - Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego
	Michael Harrington Post-doc mharrington [at] cns [dot] umass [dot] edu Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County Postdoctoral L’institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Versailles, France
	Pubudu Handakumbura Plant Biology Graduate Student phandaku [at] cns [dot] umass [dot] edu B.S., University of Colombo
	Scott Lee Plant Biology Graduate Student scottl [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Josh Coomey Plant Biology Graduate Student jcoomey [at] cns [dot] umass [dot] edu B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Gina Trabucco Research Fellow gtrabucc [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Ian Whitney Departmental Lab Assistant iwhitney [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Kathryn Silva-Brow Torrey Summer Fellow Undergraduate Lab Assistant ksilabr [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu
	Nicholas Fitzgerald Undergraduate Lab Assistant nfitger [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu
	Rachel Dannay ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Undergraduate Lab Assistant rdannay [at] student [dot] umass [dot] edu

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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 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

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