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Group photos of winners
December 19, 2024
Ben Orlando, Robert Last, and Robert Hausinger were honored at this year's awards for research and mentorship excellence.
Aphids on plant leaf.
November 20, 2024
Research associate Hillary Fischer has received $225,000 grant from the USDA for research into aphid saliva.
Orlando with cryo-em computer.
November 20, 2024
In a Nature Communications paper, the Orlando and Kroos research groups report the first high-resolution experimentally determined structures of SpoIVFB. 
Skirycz lab members.
October 31, 2024
Aleksandra Skirycz has received a five-year, $1.91 million award from the NIH to uncover the secrets of crucial small molecules.
Rachel Passage speaks with Gun Lake councilwoman, Phyllis Davis.
September 12, 2024
Now in its second year, the Building Bridges program continues to forge bonds between MSU and indigenous communities.
Polly Hsu in her lab.
August 26, 2024
Polly Hsu received $3.7 million in funding to expand genetic research that has applications for heartier crops and healthier lives.  
Robert Quinn
August 12, 2024
Quinn received a $2.5 million award from the NIH that builds on recent microbiome breakthroughs.
An illustration of the complex, diversly structured and multilayered organization of Aspergillus fungal cell wall. The inset shows the antifungal drug caspofungin inhibiting the biosynthesis of β-1,3-glucan.
August 7, 2024
Researchers have found how fungi rebuild, reinforce their cell walls after exposure to antifungals, opening opportunities to improve current therapies
Close-up of poplar leaf with water droplets.
July 8, 2024
Spartan researchers have developed a way to get poplar trees to produce valuable molecules usually derived from shark livers.
A colorful molecular model. Green and purple ribbons depicting the heterodimeric cisprenyltransferase complex floating above gray, red and blue dots depicting a cell membrane.
July 1, 2024
The nearly $1.8 million award will support work in drug discovery through molecular dynamics research in plants