Goodell Lab
Microbial Oxidative Mechanisms & Pathogenesis
Goodell Lab Group - People
Dr. Barry Goodell. Professor and head of the Lab Group
- Professor of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Formerly, Professor at Virginia Tech, and the University of Maine
- PhD in Wood Science & Engineering from Oregon State University
- Specializes in:
•Sustainable Biomaterials,
•Redox cycling mechanisms that produce damaging hydroxyl radicals, •Fungal non-enzymatic deconstruction of wood and woody biomass,
•Cellular damage associated with fungal attack and redox cycling mechanisms leading to disease
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Dr. Reuben Shipway. Post-Doctoral Research Associate/Visiting Scholar
- Prior Post-Doc: Ocean Genome Legacy, Northeastern University
- PhD Marine Biology, Inst. Marine Sciences, Univ. Portsmouth UK
- Specializes in:
•Marine mollusks and their symbionts
•Wood-boring invertebrates, biodegradation and biofuels
•Mangrove, seagrass and deepsea woodfall ecosytems
Ms. Mrinalini (Mira) Ghoshal. Graduate Student in the Microbiology working on Cryptococcus fungal pathogenicity mechanisms.
- BS: St. Xavier’s College, India
- MS: University of Calcutta, India
- Specializes in:
•Human pathogenic fungi
•The role of Cryptococcus spp. metabolites in pathogenicity
•Hobbies: Glass painting, Gardening and Practicing the Indian classical dance form of Kathak
Ceara Daigle
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Microbiology, Deans List, Class of 2019
Michael Nguyen
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Microbiology, Deans List, Class of 2020
Christopher Young
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Microbiology, Deans List, Class of 2021
Contact Us!
Mailing Address
Professor Barry Goodell, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
102 Morrill Science Center IV-N
639 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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Office and Lab: 102 - 104 Morrill Science Center IV-N
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Telephone: 559-426-6620
Fax: 413-545-1578
Email: bgoodell (at) umass.edu
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