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Two MSU MGI doctoral students, Danielle Gregory and Kyleen Hall of the Manning Lab, have been awarded prestigious APHL-CDC (@aphl.org) fellowships. Congratulations! Read about their research here: tinyurl.com/yrr89vvk

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Huge congratulations to MSU MGI and Human Bio graduating senior Valadian Pallett! She was awarded the President's Award at this year's Spartan Academic Excellence Gala where she spoke confidently to the crowd of around 600 people.

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Congratulations to MSU (@michiganstateu.bsky.social) MGI Undergrad Caitlin Dougherty on being named a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow by the ACS (@acs.org) Division of Organic Chemistry! Dougherty works with Prof. Joe Gair (@joe-gair.bsky.social) of MSUChem (@msuchem.bsky.social).

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Congratulations to MGI's newest graduate, Dr. Hunter North! On Friday, she defended her dissertation research, "Bridging nitrogen assimilation and cell cycle control in Caulobacter," which she did in the Crosson Lab.

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MGI doctoral student Alex Wessel of the Waters Lab has published new research in the ASM Journal of Bacteriology demonstrating that certain strains of cholera do not grow on TCBS agar, the go-to medium for diagnosis. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2vsx2df8

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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, a cherished member of the MSU community and a Professor in MGI & the Small Animal Clinical Science department. Read about her extraordinary legacy here: tinyurl.com/22ks8r8e

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Congratulations to Heather Blankenship, an MGI alum working in Michigan HHS, on being awarded the MGI Early Career Award! Here she is receiving the award from her former advisor, Shannon Manning.

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Congratulations to all the amazing MGI students who showcased their hard work and innovation at the 2025 MSU University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum!

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Next up in our MGI Micro Biography series is Dr. Kefei Yu, a Professor focusing on immunology research. He's also one of MGI's Associate Chairs. Learn more about Dr. Yu here: mgi.natsci.msu.edu/people/micro...

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MGI scientists, led by MGI's James Tiedje, have uncovered a new phylum of microbes thriving deep in Earth's Critical Zone, a largely unexplored soil layer essential to life. Read more in Discover magazine: tinyurl.com/3d67nnnm

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Next up in our MGI Micro Biography series is graduate student Dara Villa who works in Dohun Pyeon's (@dpyeon.bsky.social) lab. Read more about her journey here: tinyurl.com/5567yh76

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Today was our MGI Undergraduate Research Showcase where we get to hear about the work our undergrad researchers are doing every day!

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Congratulations to MGI Professor Christoph Adami (@chrisadami.bsky.social)! He has been awarded the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award for his significant contributions across multiple scientific fields as well as his exceptional mentoring and service. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdm2nfhs

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Earlier this week we got to hear from two of our MGI grad students at our Work in Progress Seminar. This week featured Alex Demetros of the Lebeis Lab talking about community immunity and Satya Kulkarni of the Contag Lab talking about engineered quasiorganelles. Great work!

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This week's @msumgi.bsky.social Seminar was the Brubaker Lecture presented by Jorge Galán of @yale.edu . He spoke about "Understanding Typhoid fever: from pathognomonic symptoms to host specificity." He's seen here with MGI chair Vic DiRita.

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This event is going to be fantastic! Chris Waters' lab will be demonstrating how to extract DNA from strawberries. 🧬

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Congratulations to MGI's Christopher Contag, the James & Kathleen Cornelius Chair in BME & Professor, Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, on his election to the 2025 AIMBE College of Fellows! Read more here: tinyurl.com/ykj7xms3

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Congratulations to MGI Prof and @msunatsci.bsky.social Assoc Dean Gemma Reguera (@microgem.bsky.social) on her election as a AAAS Fellow! (@aaas.org) This election is recognition of her important research in environmental microbiology and her leadership in the field. 👏 tinyurl.com/38hertx6

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This week, MGI and EEB cohosted a seminar by MGI alum Vaughn Cooper (@vscooper.micropopbio.org). His talk, entitled "What experimental evolution can teach us about the biology of host-microbe interactions," told the story of his 'evolution-in-action' research. Thank you for an exceptional talk!

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This past Monday, we were incredibly lucky to have the incomparable Finn Gomez (@fingophoto.bsky.social) photograph Adam Kibiloski and Camille Boucaud giving their WiPS presentations. He captured a little bit of the magic we get to see every week. Join us on Mondays, noon-1 PM in 1425 BPS.

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This week's MGI Research Seminar was given by Dr. Christina Stallings (@stallingslab.bsky.social) of Wash. Univ. School of Medicine. She spoke about "Inflammation as a driver of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis." For more info: stallingslab.wustl.edu

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Exciting times for Chris Adami (@chrisadami.bsky.social)! 🎉He will be speaking at Science & Cocktails in Copenhagen on March 25th, and his book was just a finalist for the PROSE book awards which recognize the best in professional and scholarly publishing! Congratulations, Chris!!!👏

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Congratulations to MGI doctoral candidate Charles Whitehead-Tillery on winning a 2025 AGEP Scholar Award from the MSU Graduate School! Charles is working in the Mansfield Lab studying Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases.

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This week, the MGI Research Seminar was delivered by Dr. Julia Schwartzman from the University of Southern California (@usc.edu) who talked about the ecological dynamics of bacterial cell collectives. For more info: schwartzmanlab.org Thank you, Dr. Schwartzman!

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Next up in our MSUMGI Micro Biography series is Dr. Alexander Mela, one of our wonderful instructors! Read more about him (and the children's book he published) here: mgi.natsci.msu.edu/people/micro...

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Yesterday's Work in Progress Seminar featured postdoc Matt Schnizlein of the Crosson Lab and grad student Jisung Park of the Abramovitch Lab (@abramovitch.bsky.social) presenting their research. It was, as always, standing room only. WiPS are every Monday from noon-1 pm in 1425 BPS. Join us!

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Students from MGI's undergrad club, appropriately named the MGI Club, attended a local elementary school's science night last night. They taught the students how to extract DNA from strawberries! 🍓 Our undergrads are amazing!

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MGI Chair Vic DiRita sat down with @msunatsci.bsky.social to talk about the best way to protect yourself from flu: the flu vaccine. Read more here: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/ms...

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MGI Department Chair Victor DiRita is one of 20 experts who spoke with MSUToday about lessons learned 5 years after the COVID pandemic. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/bduyh66m

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This week's WiPS seminars featured Joel Marty of the Kaminski Lab and Carissa Hutchison of the Shames Lab (@shames-lab.bsky.social) presenting their research. Join us each Monday from noon-1pm in 1425 BPS to hear our students' Work in Progress talks. #MSUresearch

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MGI Professor Dohun Pyeon (@dpyeon.bsky.social) played a key role in groundbreaking research that used light to "hear" viruses in motion! His expertise in providing virus targets helped power this innovative study, revealing real-time nanoscale biology. 🦠🔬 Read more: tinyurl.com/54phu64j

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Today's MGI Research Seminar was presented by Steven Wang of Yale University who spoke about "Image-based 3D genomics and epigenomics." Thank you, Dr. Wang, and thank you to Yu Zhang for hosting him! #microbiology #MSU

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Today's Works in Progress Seminar featured Veronica Albrecht of the Abramovtich Lab and Imani Pascoe of the Lebeis Lab presenting their research. Please join us every Monday from noon-1 PM in 1425 BPS to hear the latest from our grad students. #SpartansWill #womeninSTEM

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Next up in our #MicroBiography series is Morgen Clark, a doctoral student in Gemma Reguera's @microgem.bsky.social lab. Read about her journey and research here: tinyurl.com/2f3z7y6m #MSUGradStudents #GoGreen #WomeninSTEM

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Alumni Highlight: Congratulations to MGI alum Julie Dunning Hotopp for receiving a prestigious MPower Professorship at the Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore ! Dr. Dunning Hotopp is a prof. at the UMSOM Institute for @genomescience.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/3jywjrtz #OurAlumsDoGreatThings #SpartansWill

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Lexi Vu, a graduate student in Dr. Dohun Pyeon's lab, has been awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship to support her work investigating how HPV-induced head and neck cancer cells evade the immune system. Read more about her research here: tinyurl.com/ys7by3ud #womeninSTEM #MSUresearch #NIH

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This week’s MGI Research Seminar featured Dr. Paul Lambert of the University of Wisconsin-Madison speaking about how papillomaviruses evade immunity using a new preclinical mouse model. Thank you for the engaging talk! #Microbiology #Virology #HPV #MSUScience #GoGreen

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MGI's Elizabeth Ottosen and Ritam Sinha have a new paper out in mBio about their new neonatal mouse model which will help better study infections in human infants. Using that model, they found evidence that E. hormaechei feeds on mucus in the intestines. tinyurl.com/5598z3w7

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This past Monday's Works in Progress Seminar featured MGI doctoral students Charles Whitehead-Tillery of the Mansfield Lab and Megan Korne of the Bonito Lab speaking about their research. WiPS is held every Monday from noon-1pm in 1425 BPS. Please join us! #microbiology #GoGreen

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MGI's Bob Hausinger has two new papers out about the nickel-pincer nucleotide (NPN) cofactor: 1️⃣ Uncovering how NPN drives key enzyme functions & its biosynthesis pathway in Crit. Revs. in Biochem & Mol. Bio. 2️⃣ Tools to study NPN enzymes, revealing diverse roles in microbial metabolism in mBio

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