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Catherine Lindell, associate professor of zoology, was recently awarded a $2 million grant to study ways to limit bird damage to fruit crops. The grant is one of three awarded to MSU researchers that will be used to enhance research involving specialty crop production in the United States. The grants are part of 29 awards, [...]
Claire Vieille is not afraid to chase her dreams. After receiving her PhD from the Institut Pasteur in France, she attended a lecture by MSU Professor J. Gregory Zeikus on his work studying enzymes produced by thermophilic bacteria. Vieille was hooked. She left Paris and headed for East Lansing. “Chicago or New York would [...]
Plant Biology Professor Robin Buell and Biochemistry Professor Dean Della Penna are part of an international research team that is mapping the genome of the potato. In the current issue of Nature, the team revealed that it accomplished its goal, thus quickly closing the gap on improving the food source’s elusive genome. “This is the [...]
The USDA announced several grants involving CNS faculty, including: Shannon Manning, assistant professor of microbiology, $2.4M for a food safety project, Claire Vieille, assistant professor of microbiology, $957,000 for a bioenergy project “Engineering succinate production by Actinobaccillus succinogenes,” and Carolyn Malmstrom, associate professor of plant biology, for a bioenergy project “Control and mitigation of generalist [...]
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