News & Events

Dec 2012 Researchers sample soils to track microbes’ contribution to climate warming

Oct 2012 DOE to aid Harvard Forest study of soil microbial changes over time an article in the LTER newsletter about our warming plot research.

Oct 2012 New Grant to Aid Research on Soil Microbe DNA" Harvard Forest Press Release on our warming plot sequencing project

Oct 2012 Beyond Summer Research - a dispatch from the NSF REU conference in DC by Sonia Filipczak

Aug 2012 Researchers Help Horses Stay a Hoof Ahead of Disease an article in the Morris Animal Foundation newsletter on Amy's research

June 2012 The Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research proposal New Science, Synthesis, Scholarship, and Strategic Vision for Society has been funded by the NSF

June 2012 New England Public Radio - UMass Scientists on the Prowl for "Trash to Fuel Bugs"

June 2012 Springfield Republican Business Monday - The University of Massachusetts Amherst is working on sponsored research with a goal of using microbes to digest trash to fuel"

June 2012 Gazette News - ReCommunity Recycling, UMass team up on trash-to-fuel project"

May 2012 Supratim accepts a Postdoctoral fellowship from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

May 2012 Tara to speak at the College of Natural Sciences graduation ceremony

Apr 2012 The genomes of Amy, Kelly and Tara's switchgrass microcosm isolates will be sequenced through an award from the Department of Energy Community Sequencing Program

Apr 2012 Tara receives the 21st Century Leadership award

Apr 2012 Maddy, Tom, Sue and Jeff are awarded a research contract with ReCommunity

Feb 2012 Congratulations to James and Kayla on their birth of their son, Spencer!

Nov 2011 Amy and Jeff, in collaboration with with Sam Black and Carlos Gradil from the Vet & Animals Sciences Department, have been awarded a grant from the Morris Animal Foundation to identify bacteria that may alleviate equine colic and laminitis

Oct 2011 Jeff is part of group of researchers from UMass, UC Berkeley, University of Washington and Metabolix that is awarded $1.5M to improve biofuel crop production

Aug 2011 Tara is named 2011-2012 Life Science Junior Fellow

Aug 2011 Megan Strough joins the lab as a Masters student

July 2011 Elsa, Sue, John and Jeff are coauthors on a patent for improving biofuel production in Cphy

June 2011 Tara is inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society

May 2011 Stephen graduates and is off to a PhD program at the University of Pittsburg

May 2011 Caitlin graduates and is headed to UMass Medical School

May 2011 Stephen is named an Examplary Biology Student for his accomplishments the past 4 years

May 2011 Lucy finishes her rotation project on new approaches to environmental sequence classification

Apr 2011 Sue and Jeff appear on the local NBC Mass Appeal TV show

Mar 2011 Tara has been chosen as a Goldwater Scholar

Mar 2011 Tara appears on WGBY TV to promote UMass

Mar 2011 Amy receives a fellowship to go to Vienna for the International FISH course

Feb 2011 Gigi leaves us for her new position at New England BioLabs

Dec 2010 Gigi gives her dissertation presentation

Nov 2010 The genomes of Supratim and Stephen's experimental evolution lines will be sequenced as part of an award from the Department of Energy

Oct 2010 Amy and Jeff led a STEM workshop for K12 teachers

Sep 2010 Stephen is selection as a Junior Fellow

Sep 2010 Kelly joins the lab with NEAGAP and ICE Fellowships

Aug 2010 Monique is awarded a 2-year Louis Stokes Fellowship

Aug 2010 Danielle receives her Master's degree from the Microbiology graduate program

May 2010 James joins the National Guard and will spend his summer at Fort Benning in Georgia

May 2010 Maria receives her Master's degree from the Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program

May 2010 Caitlin is selected for the HHMI Summer Internship program

Apr 2010 Jeff receives a Charles Bullard Fellowship for "Genome-based approaches for understanding relationships between microbial community members" and will work at Harvard Forest during his sabbatical 2010-2011

Feb 2010 Amy receives a prestigious 3-year NSF predoctoral fellowship for work on "Microcosmic evolution: microbial community interactions enabling plant degradation"

Dec 2009 Supratim and a team of three other UMass students presented a business venture concept, "Mosaic," in the University of Massachusetts Innovation Challenge Mosaic is an image analysis web application that can be used by life science researchers His team won a $2,000 prize in this competition

Sep 2009 Monique starts in the lab as an NIH Prep Intern

June 2009 Amy goes to the Marine Biological Laboratories for the Microbial Diversity course

June 2009 Jeff is granted tenure!

June 2009 James is awarded a two-year fellowship from the Institute for Cellular Engineering's NSF training program

June 2009 Erin is selected for an Institute for Cellular Engineering summer internship

May 2009 Cphy, a microbe of many talents, is at the Smithsonian in an exhibit on Soil Microbes

May 2009 Stephen is awarded a HHMI Quantitative Systems Biology summer fellowship

May 2009 Danielle receives her Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and decides to stay to work with us for her Master's degree

Apr 2009 Supratim selected to receive an Isenberg Scholar Award for the 2009-2010 academic year to encourage students whose studies demonstrate commitment to the integration of science with Management

Feb 2009 A two-year sponsored research agreement begins with Qteros

Oct 2008 Elsa joins Qteros as a Research Scientist

Oct 2008 Danielle receive a Commonwealth College grant

Sep 2008 Stephen receives a HHMI Quantitative Systems Biology fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year

Aug 2008 Jinghua's first paper is accepted for publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution

Aug 2008 Igor leaves for the Bioinformatics PhD program at NCSU

July 2008 Jeff, Sue Leschine and Mike Henson are part of a large DOE SBIR phase II grant awarded to SunEthanol

July 2008 Jeff, David Damery and Paul Cantanzaro receive a 3-year grant from the USDA-CREES for "Sustainable use of woody biomass as a renewable alternative to gasoline"

July 2008 Gigi gets a travel award to the Computational Phyloinformatics course at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

June 2008 Jeff, Mary Hagen and Joe Jerry receive a grant from the Center for Apoptosis Research "From Genomics to Human Health: A Novel Framework for Identifying Condition-Dependent Models of Apoptosis"

May 2008 Ana receives her Master's degree

May 2008 Jeff is part of a group led by SunEthanol that recieved a DOE grant to "optimize biomass pretreatment procedures using genomics"

Oct 2007 Jeff and Elsa recieve a grant from SunEthanol for the identification of biofuel related pathways using microarrays

Sept 2007 Maria receives a Commonwealth College Research Grant

June 2007 Jeff is part of a group led by George Huber that is awarded a NSF grant to equip a Biofuels Research Laboratory

June 2007 Jeff is part of a group led by SunEthanol that is awarded a DOE Small Business grant

June 2007 Igor is awarded an HHMI Summer Research Fellowship

May 2007 After 3 years in our group, Devin graduates and heads up the river for PhD studies with Lee Lynd at Dartmouth

Apr 2007 Elsa receives Postdoctoral funding for her biofuels research

Feb 2007 Jeff receives Tom Lessie Award for Distinguished Lectureship in Graduate Teaching

Aug 2006 Winnie gets her Master's Degree and leaves to start a PhD program at the University of Michigan

Aug 2006 Jeff is part of a group led by Elizabeth Conner in Biology that is awarded a Howard Hughs Medical Institute grant for introducing quantitative systems biology thinking into the undergraduate curriculum

July 2006 Igor receives a Commonwealth College Research Grant

June 2006 Devin is awarded Life Science Fellowship

May 2006 Devin gets hired as a summer research intern at Mascoma Corp, a biofuels company in NH

May 2006 Gigi is named Outstanding Biology TA

Apr 2006 Jinghua has a baby!

Jan 2006 Devin co-founds the Society for Undergraduate Microbiology Majors (SUMM)

May 2005 Devin is off to a summer internship at the Desert Research Institute

May 2005 Andrew, Ana and Winnie are college graduates

July 2004 Ana and Winnie receive Commonwealth College Research Grants

June 2004 Winnie is awarded a Life Science Fellowship