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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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MGI's Ned Walker is currently on his way to Zanzibar to work with the Gates Foundation on a groundbreaking malaria control initiative. They're using AI & drone imagery to id mosquito breeding sites across East Africa. He sent this picture of Mts. Kilimanjaro and Meru from his flight.

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Next up in our Micro Biography series is Dr. Bridget Moricz, an MGI Instructor who teaches both the Introductory and Advanced Microbiology Labs. 🔬🦠 Read more here: tinyurl.com/rhe9rkjd #WomeninSTEM #microbiology

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MGI's Rich Lenski (@relenski.bsky.social) is one of a group of scientists who have have warned of a newly identified biosecurity risk: synthetic "mirror bacteria" that could evade immune systems & ecosystem defenses. Read more on MSU Today: tinyurl.com/595a7tc2

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🎉 This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State University! From groundbreaking research to shaping future scientists, we’re proud of our history and excited for what’s ahead. Join us in celebrating!

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Happy Holidays from MGI!

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MGI Professor James Pestka has new research out in Frontiers in Immunology investigating using dietary solutions to help manage the symptoms of lupus. Read more here: tinyurl.com/4z722ydz

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This morning, we sent out our Year-in-Review newsletter. If you're interested in seeing some highlights from 2024 and a sneak peek of what's to come in 2025, check it out! lnkd.in/g9FCJy5c

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Congratulations to our MGI graduates! Well done!

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New research from MGI Assistant Professor Wei Wang & a team from Univ. of Wisconsin out in PLOS Pathogens. Their research validated a WHIM mouse model and demonstrated that CXCR4-mutated immune cells caused their increased susceptibility to HPV-like infections. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdfpd289

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Early winter morning - BPS aglow in the lights of the greenhouses. #GoGreen #themostbeautifulcampus

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Shoutout to Faith Nhkum, one of our amazing undergrads featured by Arts MSU! 🎨🔬 She's the perfect blend of scientist and artist, and her inspiring story is captured beautifully in this video. Check it out! 🎥👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH6V...

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Congratulations to MGI dept chair Victor DiRita who was honored as one of this year's recipients of the Outstanding Supervisor Award from MSU Health and Wellbeing! Read more here: tinyurl.com/mrmupxap

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MGI Assistant Professor Mohamed Satti was highlighted in an interview by ABC World News tonight talking about the USDA's order to test raw milk samples for bird flu. Watch the interview here: spr.ly/6015QuUpl

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Our spirit wear arrived today - unbox it with us!!!

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On the MGI website, we have a series we like to call "Micro Biographies." We ask a few questions, and members of our community write up their answers. Our newest featured MGI grad student is Sarah Gonzalez Henao. Read more about her love of extremophiles & astrobiology here: tinyurl.com/58cfkdc8

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Yesterday, MGI hosted David Alland of Rutgers University for our annual Whittam Lecture. His talk was about how the genetic diversity of M. tuberculosis populations poses a significant health challenge while simultaneously opening new avenues for drug development.

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