MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
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Research institute at @michiganstateu funded by @doescience Plant science driving innovation.
East Lansing, MI
Joined October 2021
We are excited to announce Federica Brandizzi as the next director of the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory! Brandizzi's lab has contributed many important pieces to the canon of plant research in organelle biology, biofuel research and space biology.
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Federica Brandizzi
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Scientists are using AlphaFold in their research to strengthen an enzyme that’s vital to photosynthesis. Read more in this article titled "Engineering more resilient crops for a warming climate" where Berkley Walker shows the steps taken to find this data. https://t.co/2nWgcDSGoa
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A new article published by Molecular Foundry titled "Harnessing Nature’s Nanofactories: Rapidly Assembling Bacterial Microcompartments" tells how scientists Cheryl Kerfeld and Kyleigh Range have made a rapid mechanism for inducing self-assembly in BMCs! https://t.co/v9MJq4D5IG
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The holidays are here, and so is another newsletter! Check out a gallery of photos from our 60th anniversary event, and find out which days our last events are scheduled for before the year is up. Click this link for more: https://t.co/hIRJqeFdZF
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Federica Brandizzi (@msubrandizzilab) is now the lead of @MSUDOEPlantLab ! Read more about this exciting transition on our website: https://t.co/EouCuUq1eA
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Join the PRL Communications Manager Kara Headley for her Tuesday Noon Seminar titled "Communicating your science with a wider audience" and learn all about how to get the word out about your scientific research! https://t.co/xX0YH3y95T
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My latest piece is live #currentopinioninplantbiology , where we dive into cell wall remodeling as an #immunestrategy to biotic stress. here is a free-link to read / download https://t.co/doZArHsmiA before the #wall goes up !! @MSUNatSci @MSUDOEPlantLab 🧵 below
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Join Luke Sharpe and Shannon Donnelly tomorrow for their Tuesday Noon Seminars titled "Cut from the Greencut Cloth" and "The Plastoglobule is Required for Efficient Light Harvesting" respectively. https://t.co/N0DIzoj32y
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Join Talia Karasov of the University of Utah for her seminar titled "Bacterial pathogens suppress one naother with repurposed phage machinery" on Monday, November 3rd @ 4:00 PM in the Plant Biology Labs, Room 247.
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Congratulations to Xiaotong Jiang and Febri Susanto, who were recognized with the MPS Outstanding Paper Award! Read more about their achievements here: https://t.co/HK8QC9wlmv
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Congratulations to Josh Vermaas for recieving the OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry! https://t.co/L8apfYMWVL
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The inaugural PRL Fall Cookoff: Eintoph Edition was a great success! The turnout was fantastic, the atmosphere lively, and the food absolutely delicious. Congrats to the culinary champions of the night: Graham Burkart and Chandler Hendrickson!
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Global food systems are reaching a breaking point- and researchers are racing to build climate-resilient crops before that can happen. From analyzing photosynthesis to simulating future conditions, read more about their work here: https://t.co/GWE03s9Wln
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New @NSF-funded research from @MSUNatSci reveals that photorespiration — long considered a wasteful process — is essential for producing a crucial nutrient for preventing birth defects.
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Join Patrick Shih of the University of California-Berkeley for his seminar titled "Redesigning plants with synthetic biology" on Monday, October 27th @ 4:00 PM, located at the Plant Biology Laboratories, Room 247.
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Check out this new article titled "MSU scientists discover regulatory pathway behind cyanobacteria’s carbon-fixing factories" which goes into detail about how cyanobacteria is ideal for studying fundamentals of biology as well as promising contenders for bioengineering!
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This just in! A breakthrough in plant defense, how the script was flipped on "wasteful" plant processes, and more in this newsletter! Plus, the winner for October's Image of the Month! Check it all out and more here: https://t.co/23cqCpTFW9
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Join us tomorrow for our Tuesday Noon Seminar Series, where graduate student Huija Gong will be discussing her topic "Unraveling the mechanism of sulfur signaling in plant growth-defense tradeoffs".
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Move over endosymbionts, peroxisomes pass electrons too! Check out this new article by Biochemical Society Transactions, which explains how electron flows can be mediated by the peroxisome as a redox-active organelle. https://t.co/pQbL8rymZv
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Since the 1950s, plastic has become part of everyday living, and is depended upon for its wide array of uses. However, disposing of these materials is becoming a rising issue, with degradation spanning 50 to 600 years to set in. Learn more here: https://t.co/zpr0PY03zf
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