George Garrity, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, and Jack Preiss, University Distinguished Professor of biochemistry, have been awarded the distinction as this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows. Read more…
The muscles of male mice genetically engineered in the laboratory of Cynthia Jordan, professor of neuroscience and psychology, have extra receptors that latch onto testosterone — a trick that left researchers anticipating mouse versions of bulked up body builders. Instead, these mice developed into shrunken weaklings. More significantly, their condition precisely imitated a rare human [...]
Professor Doug Schemske’s research on the evolution of flower color in Linanthus parryae appears in Science. While the color polymorphism has long been a “textbook” example of random genetic drift, this new work demonstrates that this polymorphism has been shaped by natural selection. Read more…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 26 new awards totaling $85.8 million during the tenth year of its Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) which supports research and tool development to further knowledge of genome structure and function. A project led by MSU is using a combination of computation and functional genomics resources to learn more [...]
The work of Albert Fert, who shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics with a German colleague for technology used to read information from computer hard drives, has roots with MSU physicists. Fert has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy for 10 years and has strong collaborations with physics professors Jack [...]
The College of Natural Science has surpassed its capital campaign goal of $66.1 million by raising a total of $89.9 million for scholarships, research, programs and other college initiatives. Alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the College contributed 62% of the gifts, and enabled the College to increase the total value of its endowment principal [...]
Carolyn Malmstrom, assistant professor of plant biology, isolated historical viral RNA sequences in native and invasive grasses revealing a complex picture of struggles of species, interactions of insects and implications for the ways viruses behave today. Read more…
