Microbiology Professor Richard Lenski has research published in Nature on his 21-year evolution experiment with E. coli. Read the press release or the Nature article.
Physiology professor Sandra Haslam and microbiology professor Richard Schwartz are part of a team of MSU scientists who published a study in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology examining the genes activated by progesterone and the effects of their activation in a mouse model system. The research shows that exposure to the hormone progesterone activates [...]
Gemma Reguera, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, has developed a process that can be harnessed to produce electricity and fuel from plant biomass. Using a specific selection of metal-reducing microorganisms in the Geobacter species, Reguera was able to design a microbial fuel cell that acts as a natural battery to convert plant biomass [...]
Brian Schutte, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, is part of a team of collaborators who are looking for the genetic factors that contribute to common diseases in order to develop new innovative health care procedures for prevention and treatment of these diseases. The research group recently received a Strategic Partnership Grant through the [...]
The MSU Foundation has awarded three Strategic Partnership Grants with connections to the College of Natural Science:
The project Community-based Cooperative for Studies Across GEnerations (CoSAGE), led by Brian Schutte, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, explores the complex factors that contribute to disease, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of the project is to develop [...]
Jay Lennon, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, has received a $199,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine how cyanobacteria evolve to resist viruses. The research could unlock information critical to environmental and climate studies. Read more about Lennon’s NSF grant.
