MaPS fast facts
The Department of Microbiology & Physiological Systems (MaPS) is one of four basic science departments at UMass Chan Medical School.
MaPS houses more than 100 researchers, including faculty, postdoctoral and doctoral trainees, undergraduate students, and summer interns. An expert administrative team works tirelessly in support of the research and educational efforts.
MaPS researchers use multidisciplinary approaches that integrate genomics, proteomics, high-resolution imaging and computational methods to characterize networks of microbe-host interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal levels. Comparisons of such networks with those that define normal physiology fosters the development of computational models that simulate infection and innovative approaches to disease-specific diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics.
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MaPS benefits from interactions with more than 45 core facilities on the UMass Chan campus (including BSL-3 Facility, Animal Imaging, IVIS, Tissue Culture Services, Bioinformatics, RNAi Screening and Deep Sequencing).
Our research space includes:
- State-of-the-art and green BSL-2 laboratory space to accommodate up to 25 principal investigators
- Two BSL-3 research facilities
- Six tissue culture rooms
- Two cold rooms
- State-of-the-art microscopy suite
- Four conference rooms equipped for remote and in-person meetings
- Open social space to promote informal interactions and free exchange of ideas
- Study areas for researchers
- Business administrative areas
MaPS hosts the Program in Microbiome Dynamics.
Every year, MaPS hosts the Fred Fay Memorial Lecture, a series of seminars by leaders in biological research, which honors the late Dr. Frederic S. Fay.