Peter Chien
@chienlab.bsky.social
Looking at small things making small things even smaller. UMass Amherst Biochemistry. Microbiology. Views are my own. He/him
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!!
June 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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!!
Today is Loving Day! Anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in 1967 legalizing interracial marriage, without which my relationship and family would not be considered legal.
Best name for a celebratory day! ❤️❤️❤️
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
Best name for a celebratory day! ❤️❤️❤️
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
NPR readers share stories of love and adversity in honor of Loving Day
June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today is Loving Day! Anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in 1967 legalizing interracial marriage, without which my relationship and family would not be considered legal.
Best name for a celebratory day! ❤️❤️❤️
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
Best name for a celebratory day! ❤️❤️❤️
www.npr.org/2025/06/08/g...
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...
Sternberg Thesis Prize | Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
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April 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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...
My son just came up with a great joke. "Why wasn't the RNA shivering? Because it had a CODON!" 😀 🧪
February 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My son just came up with a great joke. "Why wasn't the RNA shivering? Because it had a CODON!" 😀 🧪
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.
February 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
An amazing meeting. Strongly recommend for anyone in the general new england area!
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.
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.
February 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
An amazing meeting. Strongly recommend for anyone in the general new england area!
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?
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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?
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...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Giving thanks for an awesome group of folks to work with (they came up with this lab shirt), wishing you all a graceful break!
November 28, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Giving thanks for an awesome group of folks to work with (they came up with this lab shirt), wishing you all a graceful break!
Because of the new followers, wanted to repost this! Priority deadline is this Friday (15th). Hit me up with questions!
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...
Details - Assistant Professor - Quantitative & Structural Biology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 11, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Because of the new followers, wanted to repost this! Priority deadline is this Friday (15th). Hit me up with questions!
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...
Details - Assistant Professor - Quantitative & Structural Biology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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October 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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...
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...
conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...
Sternberg Thesis Prize | Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
conferences.union.wisc.edu
May 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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...
conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...
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?
March 20, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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?
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...
March 14, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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...
March 3, 2024 at 12:51 PM
We had two preprints drop this past week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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
March 1, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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
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...
February 29, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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...
Excited to share this first preprint from Kubra Yigit in my lab. It's a pink phenotype ya'll (pre-Barbie!). Let's see if I can thread about this...
Proteolytic control of FixT by the Lon protease impacts FixLJ signaling in Caulobacter crescentus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.579008v1
Proteolytic control of FixT by the Lon protease impacts FixLJ signaling in Caulobacter crescentus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.579008v1
Responding to changes in oxygen levels is critical for aerobic microbes. In Caulobacter crescentus,
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February 7, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Excited to share this first preprint from Kubra Yigit in my lab. It's a pink phenotype ya'll (pre-Barbie!). Let's see if I can thread about this...
There has to be a word for that feeling when you actually have your final grading finished early!!
December 12, 2023 at 1:41 PM
There has to be a word for that feeling when you actually have your final grading finished early!!
Come join us at UMass! Great colleagues and banging science. LMK if you have questions about position, area, etc!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
December 8, 2023 at 1:32 PM
Come join us at UMass! Great colleagues and banging science. LMK if you have questions about position, area, etc!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
I was settling in thus am to write the last grad rec letter on my list and realized I already had done it for this student for something else!! <insert gif of snoopy dancing>
November 29, 2023 at 2:20 PM
I was settling in thus am to write the last grad rec letter on my list and realized I already had done it for this student for something else!! <insert gif of snoopy dancing>
Impromptu lab photo with weirdly warm day for November! Thrilled to have all these UGs and Grad students in the lab.
November 16, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Impromptu lab photo with weirdly warm day for November! Thrilled to have all these UGs and Grad students in the lab.
To celebrate the last Friday of 'Mole month' (10/23!), my oldest made this video game for his chem class. If you want a little break in the routine, have some fun moving around moles! paperfive.itch.io/the-mole-the...
October 27, 2023 at 1:03 PM
To celebrate the last Friday of 'Mole month' (10/23!), my oldest made this video game for his chem class. If you want a little break in the routine, have some fun moving around moles! paperfive.itch.io/the-mole-the...