News

  • February 2024: Katie, Jessica, and Lynmarie attend the Biophysical Society Meeting in Philadelphia.
    • Katie presents her poster “Regulation of ATP Affinity to the Bacterial Chemotaxis​ Kinase CheA​”
    • Jessica presents her poster “Solid-state NMR reveals signaling-related changes in functional chemotaxis receptor complexes”
  • January 2024: Lynmarie completes 23+ years of directing the UMass Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) program. It has been a rewarding experience, but she is happy to pass the baton to Eric Strieter.
  • November 2023: Jessica Allen wins a Chemistry Department Ambassador Award and visits UMass Lowell to present a research seminar
  • August 2023: Lynmarie is elected President of the Biophysical Society! She is honored to have this opportunity to give back to this society that has been an important source of scientific inspiration and community throughout her career. 
  • 31July2023: Tom and Aruni’s PNAS paper is published! HDX-MS of functional signaling complexes has yielded novel insights into how the kinase is controlled.
  • July 2023: Jessica and Katie attend the Protein Society Meeting in Boston. 
    • Jessica presents her poster “Solid-State NMR Assignment of Rigid Segments of Chemoreceptors in Functional Chemotaxis Signaling Complexes.” 
    • Katie wins an award for her poster “The role of ATP in P1-P4 Domain Interaction in Bacterial Chemotaxis Kinase CheA” – Congratulations Katie!
  • February 2023: Tom and Lynmarie attend the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego. Tom gives a talk proposing that chemotaxis signaling complexes activate the kinase CheA by stabilizing its catalytic domain  
  • January 2023: Bella attends BLAST (Bacterial Locomotion and Sensory Transduction) meeting in Charleston, SC and presents her poster “HDX-MS of the CheW Coupling Protein in E.coli Chemoreceptor Complexes”
  • 7Dec2022: Tom’s covalent labeling work with the Vachet lab is published – congrats Tom!
  • October 2022: Tom gives a talk at the UMass MCB Retreat in Vermont.
  • September 2022: We welcome undergraduates Stanley Yuan and Natalie Zhu into our lab.
  • August 2022: Both Katie and Jessica win poster awards at the Chemistry Department Researchfest!
  • August 2022: Jessica, Katie, and Lynmarie attend the International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS) in Boston
    • Katie presents her poster “Identification of flexible regions of the kinase CheA in functional bacterial chemotaxis arrays through 2D INEPT peak analysis”
    • Jessica presents her poster “Solid-state NMR of rigid receptor regions in functional chemotaxis receptor assemblies”
  • July 2022: Thomas gives a talk at Receptor Zoomfest “HDX-MS Reveals Stabilization of E coli CheA Controls Kinase Activity in Functional Signaling Complexes”
  • Summer 2022: CBI Traineeship awarded to Isabella Jankowski – congratulations Bella!
  • May 2022: Lynmarie receives the UMass College of Natural Sciences Outstanding Service and Engagement Award 
  • February 2022: Jessica and Lynmarie attends the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco. Jessica presents her poster “Dynamics and Assignment of the Coupling Protein CheW in Active Chemoreceptor Complexes Using Solid-State NMR”
  • January 2022: Lynmarie is elected a AAAS Fellow!
  • December 2021: Chemistry graduate student Isabella Jankowski joins our lab – welcome Bella!
  • Fall 2021: Lab alumnus Naima Sharaf becomes an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford. Congratulations Naima!
  • Summer 2021: CBI Traineeship awarded to Jessica Allen – congratulations Jessica!
  • July 2021: Jessica gives a talk at Receptor Zoomfest
  • May 2021: Undergraduate Tiernan Kennedy graduates – congrats Tiernan!
  • March 2021: Nikita gives a talk at the online IVAN NMR User Meeting
  • Spring 2021: We welcome undergraduate Sarah Tobia into our lab.
  • January 2021: Lab alumnus Brianna Manning was accepted to graduate school in Harvard’s BBS program. Congratulations Bri!
  • January 2021: Nikita, Tom, and Katie present posters at the online BLAST (Bacterial Locomotion and Sensory Transduction) meeting
  • December 2020: Undergraduate Gulalai Shah graduates – congrats Gulalai!
  • August 2020: Congratulations to Katie for winning an Outstanding Poster Award at the UMass Chemistry Researchfest
  • May 2020: Undergraduate Brianna Manning graduates – congrats Bri!
  • February – mid-March 2020: Lynmarie enjoys an abbreviated sabbatical in the Baldus lab at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
  • January 2020: Lynmarie and Eric Strieter submit the renewal proposal for the UMass CBI Training Program
  • December 2019: Chemistry graduate student Jessica Allen joins our lab – welcome Jessica!
  • Summer 2019: CBI Traineeship awarded to Katie Wahlbeck – congratulations Katie!
  • June 2019: MCB graduate student Thomas Tran joins our lab – welcome Tom!
  • May 2019: Undergraduate Kiki Carey graduates – congrats Kiki!
  • December 2018: Chemistry graduate student Katie Wahlbeck joins our lab – welcome Katie!