Join us for the annual Bay State Livestock Classic at the UMass Hadley Farm on Saturday, April 27, 2024, 9am-3pm Free and Open to the Public.  Fun, food, and activities are provided for kids of all ages! UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst

The Baystate Livestock Classic is just one week away! UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst

Hope to everyone tomorrow (Sat 4/27) at the Bay State Livestock Classic! The Hadley Farm is open to the public from 9am to 3pm, bring friends and family! Chicken, goat, sheep, and cattle shows and a petting farm.  Baby Berk will be there for food! UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst

Join us for this week's seminar: Tissue specific hydrogels and tumor dormancy Dr. Shelly Peyton Provost Professor of Chemical Engineering UMass Amherst (UMass Amherst Chemical Engineering) May 1, 2024, 4pm ISB, Rm 221

Great turnout last night for the #VASCI 2024 Science Day! Congratulations to all our undergraduate students who presented talks and posters on their independent research projects. Topics included reproductive biology, developmental biology, immunology, and toxicology!

Congratulations to Dr. Jesse Mager for the Distinguished Mentor Award!

Even the rain couldn't stop our 2024 VASCI department retreat! Congratulations to our amazing graduate student organizers and to all our awardees! A special thanks to our terrific keynote speakers David Pepin and Adrian Erlebacher!

This spring, we spoke with Sofia, a rising senior studying Animal Science. UMass Veterinary and Animal Sciences Dept #CNSStudentSpotlights umass.science/4dxKyoc

Join us for our first department seminar of the Fall '24 semester: Human Parthenote Stem Cells: the Challenges and the History with UMass Amherst Dr. Ann Kiessling Bedford Research Foundation Wednesday, Sept, 11th ISB, Rm 221, 4-5 pm

🚨 Job alert. We are hiring! 🚨 Tenure track position in immunology at the Assistant Professor level UMass Amherst! Join our interdisciplinary and collaborative department! Job posting coming soon... #immunology #academicjobs #facultysearch

Join us for this week's seminar: Maia Elizagaray "Epididymal Tertiary Lymphoid Structures Triggered by Chronic Inflammation Sustains Male Subfertility" Wed 9/18 at 4pm, ISB Rm 221

🚨Job alert! The department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences UMass Amherst is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in the area of #immunology. Join our terrific interdisciplinary research community! Please RT to spread the word. Link to more details: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

Join us for seminar on Wed Oct 9th: Dr. Andy Singson Genetics Department and Waksman Institute Rutgers University Seminar title: Genes required for the fertilization synapse and the oocyte-to-embryo transition 4-5pm in ISB Rm 221

Join us for next week's seminar on 10/16: Dr. Paolo Forni University of Albany A sexy story about the nose: How pioneer-terminal nerve neurons play a vital role in olfactory development and fertility. ISB room 221, 4PM

Join us for next week's seminar with Kat Mayer-Barber, PhD: Innate immunity and inflammation in the lungs in response to pulmonary pathogens Dr. Katrin Mayer-Barber Earl Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator NIH/NIAID October 23, 2024 ISB, Rm 221, 4-5pm

A terrific visit to @bristolaggie High School with @umassadmissions, Dean Fox of College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst, UMass Veterinary and Animal Sciences Dept, and UMass Extension. The hands-on training these students receive is clearly preparing them for their post-graduation plans – which we hope include UMass and Stockbridge!

Join us for tomorrow's seminar (11/6) Dr. Sue Hammoud A Balancing ACT: Resetting the CENP-A Rheostat for optimal development University of Michigan Medical School ISB, Rm 221, 4-5pm

Meet Molly from Manchester, New Hampshire. In May, Molly graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, offered through the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. UMass Veterinary and Animal Sciences Dept UMass Amherst umass.science/43FfFw2

Terrific new publication from the Leonid A. Pobezinsky lab in Science Advances characterizing Dapl1+ CD8 T cells that are biased towards memory differentiation! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Scientists Find Some Pathogen-fighting Cells Contain Inherent ‘Immunological Memory’ : UMass Amherst umass.edu/news/article/s…