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Camelina sativa has the potential to provide a sustainable source of jet fuel and help scientists better understand other crops. MSU researchers are probing the plant’s genetics to help realize that potential. Credit: Suresh Kumar Gupta

December 9, 2022

Helping an oilseed take off as a sustainable fuel source

MSU earns $2M DOE grant to improve the oilseed yield of Camelina sativa, a common plant that could provide cleaner jet fuels and teach us about other important crops

Gregg Howe

November 18, 2022

BMB Professor Recognized in MSU's "2022 Highly Cited" List

Gregg Howe is recognized in the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by Clarivate Analytics.

Sue Rhee

November 10, 2022

Renowned Plant Scientist, Sue Rhee, to Join MSU as Director of Plant Resilience Institute

Renowned plant scientist Seung Yon “Sue” Rhee will join Michigan State University as the director of its Plant Resilience Institute and as an MSU Foundation Professor in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, and Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences.

New systems biology research group

October 5, 2022

PRL welcomes a new systems biology research group: Assistant Professor Daniela Strenkert and Research Assistant Professor Stefan Schmollinger

Image of Toufic Jildeh

October 4, 2022

BMB Graduate, Toufic Jildeh, Returns to MSU as a Team Physician for MSU Athletics and the U.S. Olympic Ski & Snowboard Team

Toufic Jildeh returns to MSU as a Team Physician for MSU Athletics and the U.S. Olympic Ski & Snowboard Team

High school senior, Aanchal, presents her virtual project

Matthew and Patricia present at the MSU undergraduate symposium

5th year PhD student, Ana-Maria, presents at Dros22

Piro Lito

BMB alum Piro Lito joins Frontier Medicines' scientific advisory board

Sebla Kutluay

February 11, 2022

Sebla Kutluay wins 2022 R. Gaurth Hansen Award

Sliding clamp

November 17, 2021

The sliding clamp: a promiscuous DNA replication protein

November 11, 2021

Undergraduate student, Patricia, wins award

photo of plants

November 10, 2021

Studying plant's protective hair reveals metabolic innovation

November 5, 2021

Summer student, Kayla Bertholf, presents her work

October 19, 2021

Dr. Payankaulam's Vang paper out in Cells and Development

Schematic

October 4, 2021

Hickey receives Young Investigator Award

September 28, 2021

Undergraduate Maddy Niblock selected for MSU Homecoming Court

Photo of flower

August 26, 2021

Parks wins Best Presentation at the Phytochemical Society of North America annual meeting

Beronda Montgomery

MSU Biologist Beronda Montgomery Named ASPB Fellow

High school student Aanchal Jain presents her work

Students wearing graduation caps

Student Spotlights - 2021 Graduating Seniors

January 29, 2021

Soft repression paper (2021) on the cover page of BioEssays

January 11, 2021

Uncovering the roles of chloroplast oil droplets in corn for enhanced stress tolerance

November 30, 2020

David awarded Graduate Academic Advisor Award!

November 24, 2020

Beronda Montgomery awarded prestigious AAAS Fellowship

November 18, 2020

Tau: A good protein gone bad

October 26, 2020

3rd place at Midwest Drosophila Conference for Ana-Maria's talk

September 1, 2020

Freeze frame: Study uses novel sequencing method to pinpoint toxic changes in liver cells

September 1, 2020

Maddy and Kalynn awarded BMB awards

BMB's Gracielou Klinger Receives Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center Award

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