Peter Chien

careers.umass.eduAssistant Professor of Biochemistry - Neuroscience - Amherst, Massachusetts, United StatesTitle: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Neuroscience Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Location: Amh...

11 Sept

We have a TT job posting for molecular and cellular neuroscience here at UMass Amherst!!! Here is the ad: careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

careers.umass.eduAssistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis - Amherst, Massachusetts, United StatesTitle: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Locati...

18 June

Heya Folks - our priority review of applicants for our Tenure Track position in Biochemistry (focus on protein homeostasis) is coming up (Monday June 22). Take a look and let me know if you have questions! bsky.app/profile/chie...

Peter Chien@chienlab.bsky.social

We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

umass.eduHome | Institute for Applied Life SciencesThe Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) translates fundamental research into innovative product candidates, technologies, and services that deliver benefits to human health and well-being. Our ...

Also, this hire is in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, which has a translation and human health focus: www.umass.edu/ials/

again, let me know if you have any questions!

umass.eduDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology : Biochemistry and Molecular Biology : UMass AmherstBiochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) at UMass Amherst is interdisciplinary by name and nature, and as such we value diverse perspectives and experiences as essential strengths. We strive to be an ...

Forgot to include the link to the department: www.umass.edu/biochemistry....

28 June 2025

It's awesomely amazing to hear from my old undergrad junior lab partner @veatchlab.bsky.social how excited they were to see my student's poster at Protein Society. Even after 30 years we still get excited about each other's science!!

28 June 2025

FYI, Jr lab was the big lab course in physics major so Sarah and I spent waaay too much time in cold radio telescope control rooms!

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12 June 2025

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conferences.union.wisc.eduSternberg Thesis Prize | Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting

29 Apr 2025

A reminder that nominations for the Sternberg Award for the 2025 Molecular Genetics of Phages and Bacteria (Phages Meeting) is due in one week! Nominate your amazing graduating students!!! conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...

12 Feb 2025

My son just came up with a great joke. "Why wasn't the RNA shivering? Because it had a CODON!" 😀 🧪

11 Feb 2025

Greatest comment from a student in my PChem class (meets at 8:30 AM). "I really like it, it's like gen chem, but with physics". Boom achievement unlocked.

1 Feb 2025

An amazing meeting. Strongly recommend for anyone in the general new england area!

Boston Bacterial Meeting@bostonbacteria.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE ‼️ 📆 📢 BBM 2025 will be held on June 9-10th at the Harvard Science Center feat. the one and only Dr. Petra Levin as keynote! We can't wait to see you there. Registration and scholarship applications open next week.

24 Jan 2025

My partner Holly is an amazing artist and scientist. She is contemplating a book about a visual appreciation of colors and forms in the natural world. This is her hand painted panel on shell chirality! Whattya think?

11 Dec 2024

Justyne Odgahl successfully defended! Her paper was also just accepted at JBC, check it out to learn about allostery and DNA binding in the Lon protease! #microsky www.jbc.org/article/S002...

28 Nov 2024

Giving thanks for an awesome group of folks to work with (they came up with this lab shirt), wishing you all a graceful break!

careers.umass.edu Details - Assistant Professor - Quantitative & Structural Biology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

11 Nov 2024

Because of the new followers, wanted to repost this! Priority deadline is this Friday (15th). Hit me up with questions!

Peter Chien@chienlab.bsky.social

We are looking for a new colleague to join our department, the focus is on quantitative and/or structural biology. Let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to repost or tag appropriately! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

careers.umass.edu Details - Assistant Professor - Quantitative & Structural Biology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

1 Oct 2024

conferences.union.wisc.eduSternberg Thesis Prize | Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting

13 May 2024

Don't forget to submit your nomination for the Sternberg Award to celebrate your amazing graduating student! LMK if you have questions #phages2024 conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...

13 May 2024

upload deadline is May 15!

13 May 2024

and I forgot to tag, but #microsky

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Max Campbell (who led the work) put a repo on github for folks to download and play with the data! Love to get feedback! #MicroSky github.com/mbcampbell-w...

8 Apr 2024

Max's paper is accepted! Plus he's doing his MS defense today shortly after the eclipse :) It's 4pm EST - here's a zoom link umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/97307789899 if you want to join us!

20 Mar 2024

OK, evidently someone 'fiddled' with the knobs below the stage on the microscope and now we are in a bad place for our phase contrast. Figured #microsky might have some ideas about how to get us back to happy? I'm leaning toward misaligned phase rings?

14 Mar 2024

Happy Pi day everyone! As another example of a special day - we start priority reviewing of our faculty search tomorrow ! Hit me up if you have any questions: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

OK, not surprising, whole genome was more methylated ! - we also asked if a putative demethylase (AlkB) could affect global methylation (spoiler: it doesn't :) )

we then measured methylation in Brucella abortus (which had not been done to our knowledge). Found some neat stuff here where loss of Lon has different effects than in Caulobacter AND the MucR transcription factor can modulate certain sites of methylation.

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

this technology has really exploded and especially with Dorado pipeline and new pores, seems to do a good job with measuring methylation as well!

we measured methylation in Caulobacter because we know that the Lon protease (see- had something to do with proteases!) degrades the CcrM methyltransferase, which should result in more overall methylation - but no one had measured it yet - so we did it :)

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I wrote a thread on one of the preprints, gonna do that with the other :), on methylation in Brucella #MicroSky

Ok, in this paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... we used nanopore sequencing to measure methylation in alphaproteobacteria

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We learned using tn-seq that when known chaperones are removed, combining different stresses can have some surprising effects on the cell!

take a look at the preprint, but wanted to share this resource to #MicroSky and caulobacter colleagues as a searchable database of our results - you have a CCNA gene you are interested in? see whether it affects the proteotoxic stress response! chienbrowser.biochem.umass.edu/chienlab/chi...

We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One of them is the output of a long-standing collaboration between my lab and the Flaherty lab in the Math dept. We wanted to figure out how the chaperone/protease network impacted protein stress responses.

1 Mar 2024

The 2024 GRC Microbial Stress meeting program is live and we have some blazin' folks - should be a little bit of something for everyone. The conference is usually oversubscribed, so please register early! Hit me up with any ?s! www.grc.org/microbial-st... #MicroSky

1 Mar 2024

As in the past, there is a GRS (student run!) Microbial Stress right before as well. Students/postdocs - check it out! (I'll even take you to Antonio's if you ask nicely!)

29 Feb 2024

Just letting folks know that we're going to start reviewing for our newest faculty search on March 15 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

29 Feb 2024

We are particularly interested in folks doing protein homeostasis in any aspect of human-related disease or health. Hit me up if you have any questions!