BMB Weekly #20: May 16, 2025

 

Micro metal-movers: MSU biochemists are one step closer to better cancer treatments   Featuring Hu and Merz Groups. Read the full article here.

 

 

 

 

Music can heal, calm, and change our mood. It can regenerate our body, mind, and spirit. Health Promotion and Engagement invites you to take an hour out of your month to listen and Rest with Music. There will be live musical performances featuring a variety of musical styles and genres. These events are free, require no registration, and take place at Abrams Planetarium from 12:10 - 12:50 pm.

Come join us for some tea & treats and casual conversation as we enjoy the beauty of spring on the back patio at Chittenden. Bring a friend! (Weather alternate plan is downstairs in the lounge.) We hope you'll join us! Learn more here.

In this workshop, you will reflect on your identity and positionality and the role of creating an environment where all feel like they belong in your teaching, research, service, and community efforts. At the end of this session, you will have a working draft to tailor according to your respective needs. Learn more and register here.

Are you having a hard time getting things off your to do list? Would you benefit from a dedicated space and being around others to find motivation and productivity? If so, please join us in a structured community space for supporting goal achievement. We will start at 1 p.m. with a brief time of connecting and sharing goals. We will then have two sessions of about 50 minutes where everyone will work on their individual goals with a 10-minute break in between. You can come for one or both sessions or just stop in at any point. Learn more here.

The MSU AGEP Learning Community is an informal environment where students from varying disciplines can gather, share their research in a 10-minute presentation, or discover that their graduate toils are not unusual. Those in attendance are privy to information regarding fellowships, career opportunities, even summer internships, pertaining to the group. Learn more and register here.

Whether you are working on the competencies for your Certification in College Teaching, your Diversity Statement, or your Teaching Philosophy Statement, join us for an in-person writing session. Please come to this working and scaffolding session prepared with questions, identify your needs so you can set goals to complete your work or make progress on your ongoing documents (e.g., teaching philosophy), and provide resources and feedback. Learn more and register here.

 

 

Looking for a meaningful way to give back? The MSU Student Food Bank is seeking dedicated volunteers to support our mission of fighting food insecurity on campus. Volunteering at the MSU Student Food Bank (SFB) is a great opportunity to help build a community where everyone has access to nutritious food, essential items, and the chance to lead a healthy, dignified life. The MSU Student Food Bank is currently looking for volunteers for morning (8 a.m. – 12 p.m.) or afternoon (12 – 5 p.m.) shifts at least one day per week, Monday through Friday, this summer. New and returning volunteers can take one of two trainings, one in-person on May 14 from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. and the other virtually on May 19 from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Learn more here.

The MSU Student Food Bank is working towards supporting different basic needs and snack pantries across campus, and is looking for departments and individuals to fill out a survey with information about the resources that already exist. Follow this link to take the survey.

You can find the latest department news over on LinkedIn and BlueSky. Give us a follow and be sure to tag us with research updates, publications, and lab updates to help spread the word!

Hot off the press! The second University Health and Wellbeing Annual Report is now available! Explore the latest insights on how health and wellbeing was advanced on campus and delivered positive impact for the Spartan community in 2024.

The MSU Student Food Bank is a resource available to students and scholars who may be experiencing food insecurity. The Food Bank provides free food and other essential items to those in need within our MSU community. Learn more here.

 

 

 

Ölander, M., Rea Vázquez, D., Meier, K., Singh, A., Silva de Sousa, A., Puértolas-Balint, F., Milivojevic, M., Mooij, L., Fredlund, J., Calpe Bosch, E., Rayón Díaz, M., Lundgren, M., van der Wal, K., Zhu, S., Mateus, A., Schroeder, B. O., Lohman, J. R., & Sixt, B. S. (2025). A multi-strategy antimicrobial discovery approach reveals new ways to treat Chlamydia. PLoS biology, 23(4), e3003123. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003123

Mardikoraem, M., Eaves, J. N., Belecciu, T., Pascual, N., Aljets, A., Hagenbuch, B., Shapiro, E. M., Orlando, B. J., & Woldring, D. R. (2025). Predicting inhibitors of OATP1B1 via heterogeneous OATP-ligand interaction graph neural network (HOLIgraph). Journal of cheminformatics, 17(1), 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-025-01020-5

Jiang N, Grotewold E. Flavonoids and Derived Anthocyanin Pigments in Plants-Structure, Distribution, Function, and Methods for Quantification and Characterization. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2025 May 5;2025(5):pdb.top108516. doi: 10.1101/pdb.top108516. PMID: 39187304.

Jiang, N., Gomez, L., & Grotewold, E. (2025). Extraction and Quantification of Total Anthocyanins, Determination of Anthocyanidin Core Structures, and Characterization of Specific Anthocyanins from Maize. Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2025(5), pdb.prot108577. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108577

Hagar, H. T., Fernandez-Vega, V., Wang, K. W., Jordan, L. M. O., Shumate, J., Scampavia, L., Tapayan, A. S., Nguyen, H. M., Spicer, T. P., & Kuo, M. H. (2025). Hyperphosphorylated tau-based Alzheimer's Disease drug discovery: Identification of inhibitors of tau aggregation and cytotoxicity. SLAS discovery : advancing life sciences R & D, 33, 100235. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.slasd.2025.100235

Gomez, L., Jiang, N., & Grotewold, E. (2025). Extraction and Quantification of Phenolic Compounds in Maize. Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2025(5), pdb.prot108576. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108576

Chatterjee, S., Rankin, J. A., Farrugia, M. A., J S Rifayee, S. B., Christov, C. Z., Hu, J., & Hausinger, R. P. (2025). Biochemical, Structural, and Conformational Characterization of a Fungal Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Biochemistry, 64(9), 2054–2067. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5c00038

 

 

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