Lab Members

Dannel McCollum, Ph.D.

Professor and
Vice-Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology and Vice Chair of Faculty Advancement

Office: LRB 823
Lab: LRB 870
Tel: 508-856-8767
  

Dan McCollum was a Biochemistry major at the University of Illinois, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1987. He studied peroxisomal protein import at the University of California San Diego, earning a Ph.D. in 1993. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Vanderbilt University, where he was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to study cell division in fission yeast. He became an independent investigator at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research in 1996, and joined the faculty at the UMass Chan Medical School 1997. His research focuses on how the dynamic interplay between the cytoskeleton and signaling networks control cell proliferation.

Samriddha Ray

Sr. Research Scientist

Chamika De Silva

Postdoctoral Candidate