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Robert Quinn

August 12, 2024

Quinn continues to 'rewrite the book on bile acids'

Quinn received a $2.5 million award from the NIH that builds on recent microbiome breakthroughs.

Preston Wake draws a graph on a whiteboard.

Wake receives NSF CAREER Award

Preston Wake has won an NSF CAREER Award for "quantifying congruences between modular forms”

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.

How fungi elude antifungal treatments

Researchers have found how fungi rebuild, reinforce their cell walls after exposure to antifungals, opening opportunities to improve current therapies

Selvan Demir poses for a photo while working with her arms inside a glovebox.

Demir receives NSF CAREER Award

Combining chemistry and art, Selvan Demir has earned new support for her team’s ‘exceptionally creative’ research

Kirsten Salonga stands in front of a black backdrop with “National Geographic” written on it. She holds a large yellow rectangle, making it look as though she’s on the cover of a National Geographic magazine.

KBS experience inspires Yager teaching award winner

How Kirsten Salonga’s approach to science education was shaped by a research experience for teachers

Tuo Wang speaks at this investiture ceremony.

Tuo Wang receives American Chemical Society's Horace S. Isbell Award

The accolade recognizes research excellence in the realm of carbohydrate chemistry.

Dozens of small, greenish-brown seeds are suspended in liquid in the conical tip of small vial held by a hand wearing a purple glove.

Discovering how plants make life-and-death decisions

Researchers in the Brandizzi lab have discovered two proteins that work in tandem to control an important response to cell stress

Eric Hegg

Hegg recommended as dean

Eric Hegg has been recommended to serve as the next dean of the College of Natural Science, effective Sept. 1, 2024

Four round MRSA cells are shown in purple in a colorized electron micrograph.

How staph slips around

Research reveals conditions that accelerate the spread of infectious bacteria

Marianne Huebner stands on a podium wearing a medal

Ask the expert: Who is the best Olympic weightlifter?

Marianne Huebner is changing how scores are determined in weightlifting

Coral Brock

Sugary Surprise Nets UURAF Grand Prize

Research on newly discovered root metabolites earns PLB undergrad grand prize at research forum.

: The Artemis I launch stage is illuminated against a black sky at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s white Orion spacecraft is fixed to the top of the tall, cylindrical orange and white Space Launch System rocket. Bright yellow plumes are gushing from the bottom of the rocket as it begins its launch.

MSU’s ‘seeds in space’ earn NASA recognition

NASA awarded its Silver Achievement Medal to a multi-institution team that includes researchers from the College of Natural Science

Patricia Soranno

Soranno selected for National Nature Assessment

PatriciaSoranno will lead a chapter for this first-ever report to examine impacts of lost land, waters and wildlife

A schematic representing a microscopy measurement where a pulse of laser light (red curve) illuminates an atomically sharp tip (top) positioned above the sample surface. The graphene nanoribbon sits on top of a gold substrate. Experimental data is shown in blue, revealing the distribution of electrons above the nanoribbon.

Single atoms show their true color

A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics

A large green poplar leaf speckled with water droplets

Green gold: Turning trees into 'biofactories'

Spartan researchers have developed a way to get poplar trees to produce valuable molecules usually derived from shark livers

A close-up of a student’s hands filling out a blank table on a worksheet underneath a bar graph comparing Michigan and Wisconsin crop yields.

Helping students hear the stories that data tell

The Data Nuggets program is promoting data literacy while making science more relatable

Don’t invite these bacterial baddies to your next barbeque

Keeping bacteria at bay on grilling day

Summer is the time for grilling, but as cooking moves from the kitchen to the patio, unwelcome bacterial guests can tag along for dinner.

A colorful molecular model. Green and purple ribbons depicting the heterodimeric cisprenyltransferase complex floating above gray, red and blue dots depicting a cell membrane.

Vermaas awarded NIH MIRA Grant

The nearly $1.8 million award will support work in drug discovery through molecular dynamics research in plants

Nematodes

DIY lab tool evaluates new molecules in minutes

The tool speeds up a crucial method in which nematodes help determine if plant-derived molecules are beneficial or harmful

A monarch butterfly perched on a milkweed plant

Insecticides are main driver of butterfly decline

A team led by MSU researchers has revealed the leading cause of butterfly loss in the Midwest

A collage shows bright blue, white and green pill capsules on the left with a computer generated image of a brain made of silver nodes and lines. Credit: Wengang Zhai (capsules) and Growtika (brain) via Unsplash

Transforming drug discovery with AI

New MSU-led research uses technology related to ChatGPT to accelerate advances in medicine

An atomic nucleus is shown with blue neutrons and red protons clustered in its core. There is one proton,, however, that orbits that central cluster, creating what's called a proton halo.

FRIB helps advance understanding of proton halos

The first results from FRIB’s precision measurement program measure the mass of a rare isotope

Woman smiling in foreground of blurred Spartan Statue

MSU student earns program's first Fulbright grant

Medical laboratory science student Katie McGraw awarded Fulbright grant to research malaria

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, appears as a bright spot against the backdrop of space in this telescope image, shrouded by X-ray light, which appears as clouds of red and blue. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y. Bai, et al.

'Flares' and 'echoes' from the Milky Way's monster black hole

Spartans have uncovered new information about the galaxy’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*

Peter Lundquist

Lundquist receives NSF CAREER Award

The award supports Peter Lundquist’s search for “master regulators” in the stress response of plants

Rose Kithan-Lundquist sits at a lab bench. She is holding a pipette in her right hand.

An apple a day keeps the doctorate under way

Rose Kithan-Lundquist, a doctoral student in MGI, is inspired by her family to reduce food waste.

A collage of black and white photos of seven faculty members is shown against a geodesic light green background.

Faculty honored for scientific excellence

Several researchers have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

A micrograph shows a network of looping yellow lines intertwined with gently curved magenta traces. These show the position of glial cells (yellow) and neurons (magenta) in a mouse colon sample.

New grant supports fight against gut pain

NIH awards nearly $1.8 million to MSU to explore the cellular basis of visceral pain

An illustration shows wave-shaped purple, pink and orange contours nesting within each other and overlapping.

Solving quantum many-body problems

FRIB reserachers are helping solve complex computational problems with a new method called wavefunction matching.

The printed program from the 2024 Classes Without Quizzes event was designed to look like a blue book for college exams. A closed copy of the program sits on a table showing that the cover reads “Classes Without Quizzes 2024” and has a spot to write a student’s name, subject, class, section, instructor and date. Behind it, a copy of the program is opened to a page featuring presenter Federica Brandizzi and shows how some of her work is helping prepare plants that astronauts can grow on space flights.

Classes Without Quizzes celebrates 14 years

Alumni and friends of the college gathered to peer into the future of sustainability with Spartan student and faculty experts

Members of the Zipkin Lab

MSU lab reviews a century of statistical ecology

Researchers from the Zipkin lab look back at a century of change in statistical ecology.

Melanie Cooper

Cooper elected to National Academy of Education

Melanie Cooper, Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at MSU, was recognized for her transformative work.

MSU President Kevin M. Guskiewicz stands in front of a lectern on stage with an ASL interpreter and a sign that says “College of Natural Science.”

MSU’s greenhouses are growing into the future

Upgrades will help power innovation in plant science, agriculture and sustainability

Austin Pollock and Alex Pollock stand next to their invention, the Reel Free, a spool-like device that helps manage oxygen tubing to reduce tripping risks

College stars shine at Innovation Celebration

Björn Hamberger, Xuefei Huang and Alexander Pollack were among the 2024 awardees recognized by the MSU Innovation Center

A white dwarf star (center) pulls matter off its much larger yellow, companion star. An accretion disc forms around the white dwarf and, eventually, the material in this disc will undergo a thermonuclear explosion.

Ask the expert: The nova in our 'galactic backyard'

Elias Aydi shares the story of a star explosion that will soon light up the night sky

Tammy Long and Kevin Guskiewicz

Tammy Long earns President's Distinguished Teaching Award

“Dr. Long is a motivator, mentor and inspiration"

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