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Headshot of MSU researcher Jin He, BMB.
June 15, 2023
MSU researcher Jin He recieves NIH grant to further study connections between ASH1L gene and autism spectrum disorder.
Michigan State researchers connect over coral
June 14, 2023
MSU biochemist Robert Quinn has spent years studying the biochemistry of coral bleaching, a heat-induced response to stress causing it to turn white. Bleaching is damaging to reefs and is expected to increase due to climate change. While Quinn has discovered unique betaine lipids in coral that are markers of resistance to coral bleaching, very little is known about them. During a literature review of these lipids, Quinn discovered that MSU colleague, Christoph Benning, had written on the subject. This connection led to the two scientists teaming up on a $1.9 million NSF grant to study the role that betaine lipids play in coral bleaching.
Headshot of Seun Ogunwobi
May 15, 2023
Internationally renowned cancer researcher Olorunseun “Seun” Ogunwobi will join Michigan State University on Aug. 16 as chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB), which is affiliated with the College of Natural Science, the College of Human Medicine and the College of Osteopathic Medicine. He will also serve as co-director of the forthcoming Center for Cancer Health Equity Research at MSU.
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April 3, 2023
The researchers in the PRL Ducat lab show Cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms which have widespread uses in the production of pigments, antioxidants and supplements and potential ones in biofuels and plastics, have a new way to communicate to control their population.
Guowei Wei, MSU Research Foundation Professor
March 28, 2023
MSU Research Foundation Professor Guowei Wei was among 140 colleagues who make up the AIMBE College of Fellows class of 2023
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March 24, 2023
Michigan State University researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that connects plant root growth to phosphorus availability.
New research from Michigan State University has shown how proteins known as ZIPs transport metal into living cells. ZIPs are found across the tree of life, playing important roles in health and disease. Adapted by Zhang, Y., Jian, Y., et al. Nature Communications (2023). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
March 9, 2023
Spartan researchers help show how omnipresent biomolecular machines with important health implications transport metals
Emily Lanier and Abigail Bryson
January 23, 2023
MSU researchers have traced the evolution of mint genomes for potential future applications that range from medicines to pesticides to antimicrobials.
Christoph Benning
December 16, 2022
Researchers from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory Benning lab have received a $1,076,813 grant from the National Science Foundation to bring research into the undergraduate classroom setting with a project looking at how the chloroplast reacts to stress responses in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Michigan State University’s Cheryl Kerfeld and her colleagues have been instrumental in revealing the form and function of bacterial microcompartments. Cover art for a 2019 issue of the journal ACS Synthetic Biology features some of their work, showing a rendering of the protein shell of a synthetic compartment. Reprinted with permission from ACS Synth. Biol. 2019, 8, 4. Copyright 2019 American Chemical Society.
December 15, 2022
With nearly $11M from DOE, MSU is leading a collaboration to usher the US into new frontiers of clean energy with inspiration from microbes