Please congratulate UMass Lowell Biology PhD student Steven Casey from the Jessica Garb lab for winning 1 of 2 Honorable Mentions for the @ASNAmNat Best Student Poster Award at the 2024 Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal. There were a lot of posters there!!

Time for summer project wrap-ups 🎉 First, UMass Lowell Biology sophomores CeCe, Alan, & William give lab mtg!! They used human patient mutations to test NuRD's role in germline DSBr - after cranking out an impressive number of replicates, their data will be in our forthcoming paper 🙌

Join us at the Osteopathic Medical School Fair at UMass Lowell on Friday, Sept. 13, 3-5 PM in ETIC 100L2! Meet admissions reps from 15-20 schools nationwide. Great for all students—whether you're applying now, next year, or just exploring your options. UMass Lowell Biology UMass Lowell

📷 With summer coming to a close, it's time for a new Lee lab photo! Introducing: 🟠New PhD students Tahreem & Marybeth, 🟡Returning undergrads Kelin, Thiago, & Arthur (Arthur Colunga), 🟢New undergrads CeCe, Alan, & William, 🔵And tech Scott Roques holding us all together!

Happy first day of class to all the UMass Lowell Biology and Kennedy College of Sciences at UMass Lowell students! 🙌 We hope you're skipping into the semester like

Please join the Kennedy College of Sciences as we welcome NEW, RETURNING, and TRANSFER KCS students to campus! Wednesday, September 18 - 10:30-12 (rain date: 9/19/2024).

Madison Fusco, a biology major at UMass Lowell, isn't just taking coffee orders during her co-op at Wave Life Sciences—she's in the lab, contributing to groundbreaking RNA research. "What I’m doing is actually impacting people," she says. uml.edu/Profiles/Madis… @UMLcareercoop

Happening Wednesday, Sept 18! Can’t wait to see all of the new and returning KCS faces 😃

“UMass Lowell is about the grit, the work ethic,” says Sean Simoni, an honors UMass Lowell FAHSS Political Science and UMass Lowell Biology student. “It’s everybody on an equal playing field. I love that mission.” Read Sean's inspiring and impressive story here: uml.edu/profiles/sean-…

Spider silk’s toughness, stretch, and adhesion make it perfect for bioengineering. With a $344K U.S. National Science Foundation grant, UMass Lowell’s Prof. Jessica Garb is researching silk proteins to help create stronger materials for products like medical sutures and bulletproof gear. 🕸️🧬#Bioengineering

Check out UMass Lowell Biology professor Jessica Garb on the news! She brings her spider expertise to reassure us that, despite the spooky season, the new-to-Boston species of Joro spider is nothing to be scared of: cbsnews.com/boston/news/jo…

@EducatorEden just gave a wonderful talk UMass Lowell Biology about his thesis work on heritage, belonging, and succes-predictors for FIU Latin* students! Great to see you again!

What a delight to have Alex Eden @EducatorEden (a double UML alum!) back for the UMass Lowell Biology seminar this week! 🙌 In his PhD with Bryan Dewsbury, he's applying his STEMed expertise to understand how students' cultural capital affects bio majors during their transition to college.

Wrapping up a beautiful fall week at #CSHLgermcells - it was a pleasure to walk this storied campus & discuss our work under the auspices of science heroes like McClintock! Thanks to organizers Swathi Arur @sarur2, Mark Van Doren, and Mitinori Saitou for a fantastic meeting! 🙌

Our article is now online! Erika Nadile UMass Lowell Biology Changes in Intrinsic Motivation and Self-EfficacyHow This Can Differentially Impact Academic Success in First-Year Introductory Biology Students online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-ab…

Congratulations to honors UMass Lowell Biology student Darya Mehrabani who presented on her Honors Experiential Learning Opportunity "Tank Design for Investigating Behavioral Fever in Threespine Stickleback Fish," which she conducted in the Steinel Lab. #umasslowell #umlhonorscollege

Congratulations to honors UMass Lowell Biology student Logan Laurent who presented his honors fellowship "Climate Change Stressors & Carryover Effects in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica"! Thank you, Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn for providing our students with these opportunities!

I’m proud to share the exciting news that all undergraduate students from households earning $75,000 or less will be able to attend any UMass campus tuition-free starting next fall: bostonglobe.com/2024/10/29/met… @umassamherst @umassboston @umassd @umasslowell #umass #highered (1/4)

🎃Happy Halloween from the Lee lab! 👻 Here we are at our spoooooky department retreat last Sunday: a graduated cylinder, both strands of DNA, an unspecified Gryffindor student, Scott Roques as a beatnik, and Wednesday (trying her best not to smile).

The faculty of UMass Lowell Biology celebrate Halloween! I've chosen another Nobel prize-winning innovation for my costume this year: GFP & its jellyfish Aequorea victoria! It's another homage to C. elegans, since it was the first organism genetically engineered to glow with GFP 🪱.