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March 19, 2024
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.
March 18, 2024
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.
March 12, 2024
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.
February 28, 2024
Ask someone what they think of when they hear the phrase “bile acids,” and you might get a few unpleasant answers. Ask Robert Quinn, assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology housed in the College of Natural Science, and you’ll kickstart a conversation about some of the most versatile and crucial actors in the human gut.
February 1, 2024
“You’d be surprised to learn how few technologies that have been researched in labs for years actually make it to market,” says Frank Urban, director of venture creation – life sciences for Spartan Innovations. “But without getting to the market, that research doesn’t play out into changing people’s lives.“Dr. Abramovitch’s passion is not only to do tuberculosis research, but to drive that forward, to be a cause of change in the world.”
January 30, 2024
The latest issue of Science magazine has a long-format research article on the bacterial populations in an experiment started in 1988 by EEB and MGI faculty member Richard Lenski.With a team of researchers from Spain, France, and Harvard, Lenski and colleagues used high-throughput genomic methods to analyze the fitness effects of hundreds of thousands of mutations in the E. coli bacteria, and how those effects changed over time as the experiment proceeded.
