Focus: Gastrointestinal microbiome, diet-microbiome interaction
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Department of Psychology; Neuroscience And Behavio
Psychology And Neuroscience & Behavior Program
Biostatistics And Health Services Research
Postdoctoral positions are available for this lab. Please contact Junhao Mao directly, 508-856-4149 or via email, Junhao.Mao@umassmed.edu
Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Chair in Autism
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair II
Focus: Mucosal inflammation, host: pathogen interactions, and cancer biology
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair III
Please email Kate.Fitzgerald@umassmed.edu if you are interested in rotations.
Immediate opening! Two postdoctoral positions are available immediately to study cellular andmolecular mechanisms resulting in immunosuppression after alcohol use. Thefocus of this research is the role of monocytes and dendritic cells indecreased antigen-specific T cell activation after alcohol use.Intracellular signalling mechanisms resulting in decreased NF-kBactivation and inflammatory cytokine induction after acute alcoholconsumption are being investigated. Please contact Dr. Szabo for details.
Rotation projects are available related to microbiota-gut brain axis and antibiotic usage and the sequelae of antibiotic use in hospitalized patients which include Clostridium difficile and multi-drug resistant organism infection and colonization.
Imoigele P. Aisiku, MD’97 Chair in Health Equity and Diversity
Barbara Helen Smith Chair in Preventive & Behavioral Medicine
Pathogen genetics of the host immune response
How the cholinergic nervous system communicates peroxisomal stress to the whole organism during bacteria infection
Role and regulation of novel innate immune effectors that are conserved across animalia
Focus: Microbiota-gut-brain axis in C. elegans; mucosal innate immunity; staphylococcus aureus; transcriptional regulation of host defense; autophagy; lysosomes; peroxisomes
We are looking for rotation students to visit our lab and participate in one of our ongoing research projects. Different aspects of the projects require different toolsets ranging from experimental biology to quantitative biology and mathematical modeling. Rotation students will have a chance to acquire new skill-sets and develop expertise required for implementing a quantitative approach for understanding cell regulation, signaling and evolution. Interested students should email Amir directly and briefly describe their academic background, future plans and interest in the lab. Current rotation projects: Investigating bacterial response to host-targeted drugs: As part of our research into the tumor-microbiome (tumor assosiated bacteria), we are testing how bacterial growth is inhibited by cytotoxic drugs that target cancer cells. Rotation students will run genetic screens in bacteria to identify bacterial toxicity and resistance mechanisms. In addition the students will test if bacteria can rapidly become drug resistance by evolutionary adaptation. Monitoring recovery dynamcis of melanoma cells in response to targeted therapy: The project involves examining and quantifying different aspects of cell behavior, population dynamics and adaptive resistance to targeted therapy. Rotation students will examine cellular behavior of established cell-lines and will clone and engineer new live-cell reporters for microscopy based assays.
Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Focus: Host-microbiome interaction, computational biology, synthetic biology
UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center
Prevention Research Center at UMass Chan
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Dr. Edmiston's research focuses on bottom-up sensory perception in people with or at risk for mood and anxiety disorders. He uses neuroimagingand neuromodulation techniques to assess the function of the ventral visual stream during emotion and novelty perception in children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Edmiston has secondary interests in transgender health education and healthcare access.
Joseph D. Early Chair in Biomedical Research