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Adam Kibiloski, a third-year doctoral student in MGI Professor Rob Abramovitch's lab, attended the Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference this past summer and provided a first-hand account of his trip.

Annabella is currently an NSF graduate and MSU plant science fellow, and plans to use her experience as a first-generation and non-traditional student to help expand inclusivity in STEM and higher education.

Dr. Phillip Delekta is an Assistant Professor in MGI. These are his responses to the Micro Biography questions.

A Michigan State University student recently presented research at the International Ecological Society of America meeting.Abigail Lippert, an undergraduate student in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics,&Immunology,or MGI, traveled to Long Beach, Calif., with support from MGI. 

Two MSU researchers recently published a paper in Nature Communications about how they used Cryo-EM to determine the structure of a key enzyme.

Jasper Gomez is an MGI doctoral student in Chris Waters' lab. 

MGI undergraduate Veona Cutinho is a semi-finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship for India.

Emily Perez is a doctoral student in Sean Crosson's lab. 

MGI researchers have made a fundamental discovery about Campylobacter Jejuni.

Gemma Reguera & Tom Fernandez collabored on this new research.

Sergio Hernandez-Ortiz is a doctoral student in Sean Crosson's lab. 

Dr. Parkin was selected by this year's CHM students to receive the 2024 Green Apple Award. 

Microbiology, Genetics and Immunologygraduate student Jasper Gomez was recently awarded a three-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (Diversity) for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) which supports promising doctoral candidates who are conducting their dissertation researchin a scientific health-related field. 

Dr. Sean Crosson has been named recipient of the 2024 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence. 

Research reveals conditions that accelerate the spread of infectious bacteria

Summer is the time for grilling, but as cooking moves from the kitchen to the patio, unwelcome bacterial guests can tag along for dinner.

MGI's Academic Program Coordinator uses her insight as a department alumna to improve student experiences.

Rose Kithan-Lundquist, a doctoral student in MGI, is inspired by her family to reduce food waste.

Dr. Aathmaja Anandhi Rangarajan is an MGI postdoctoral fellow working in Chris Waters' lab.

MGI's Sean Crosson is one of seven faculty elected as 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Chris Adami’s newest book, The Evolution of Biological Information, flew to the top of the Amazon Best Sellers list in information theory when it published earlier this year and remains there today.“There’s a famous saying in biology which says, ‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution,’ and I have co-opted that statement and said that it is in light of the information,” says Adami, a professor in MSU’s Department of Microbiology, genetics, & Immunology.

Jade Le Bris, a first-year D.O. – Ph.D. student in MSU’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology has recently published her first novel, “All the Gold Between Us,” a fantasy inspired by Greek Mythology.

The College of Natural Science’s annual event honored its outstanding alumni, faculty and students.

Sixty-three exceptional students from MSU’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology were honored at a departmental awards ceremony held on April 16 at the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building. More than 100 faculty, students, donors and parents joined to celebrate this year’s recipients.

Three members from the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, or MGI, were recently recognized with university-wide awards: MSU Research Foundation Professor Shannon Manning was awarded the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award; Assistant Professor Andrew Olive was selected for the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award; and University Distinguished Professor Edward “Ned” Walker received the 2024 Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies at MSU.

Marissa Malleck, a sophomore in MSU’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, has been awarded the 2022-23 Spartan Volunteer Service Award. The award, presented by the MSU President and the Center for Community Engaged Learning, recognizes students who participate in more than 100 hours of verified community-engaged learning or volunteering in a year. Malleck volunteered for almost 820 hours last year, making her the student with the second-highest number of hours in the university.

In a commentary published in the journal Cell, a group of 24 transgender (and/or family members of transgender) scientists describe what it’s like to be a transgender person in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, or STEMM. One of the co-authors is Maeve McLaughlin. McLaughlin is a postdoctoral researcher in MSU’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology.

Microbes are vital to maintaining healthy, fertile soil, which, in turn, is vital to the overall health of ecosystems. But what happens to these microbes when humans cause long-term damage to the environment?Michigan State University researchers have provided new answers to that question by analyzing soil microbes near a mine fire that’s been burning for more than 60 years.