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This past summer, graduate student Bianca Serda had the opportunity to participate in the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program.

Expanding knowledge of the carbon concentrating mechanism in the extremophilic algae C. merolae allows scientists to better understand and possibly improve photosynthesis.

Plant and agricultural sciences must make rapid and significant changes to ensure global food security in the face of climate change, according to a Michigan State University-led international group of plant researchers.

Some trees seem able to adjust to climate extremes without altering an important process for their growth, according to new research from Michigan State University.

New paper in leading journal lead by undergraduate researcher Alassane Sow and co-authors Bryan Rennick and Jud Van Wyk in PSM.

MPS alumnus Luke Gregory looks at how paper birch trees are acclimatizing to changing environments.

MPS student Lexi Heger reflects on her experience organizing and attending the Financial Wellness workshop for plant science graduate students and postdocs.

This October, two students in the Molecular Plant Sciences graduate program were awarded the inaugural MPS Outstanding Paper Award.

Annabella Lyndon shares her non-traditional path to Michigan State and her passion for plant sciences.

Michigan State University has been awarded one of six Global Centers through the U.S. National Science Foundation and its partner agencies.

MPS researchers have discovered what bridges two important pieces of cellular machinery in plants.

MPS researcher Berkley Walker, and Hiroshi Maeda, were awarded $1.9 million to study how plants make critical choices during photosynthesis.

MPS faculty member Polly Hsu received $3.7 million in funding to expand genetic research that has applications for heartier crops and healthier lives

The organelle can arrange itself in a sheet or a shell — but that doesn’t change how it operates.

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

With new funding, graduate student Lexi Heger’s research takes an unexpected turn

The fellowship provides opportunities for international exchange programs in drug discovery, agriculture and medicine.

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

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

Maxwell Harman shares his insights on his acceptance to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Björn Hamberger, MPS faculty member, is the winner of the 2024 nnovation of the Year award from the Innovation Center.

A group of graduate and undergraduate students participated in the 2024 EnergyTech University Prize, making it to the regionals portion of the competition. The contest is organized by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions and challenges students to create and present a business plan in the energy sector.

The College of Natural Science has three newly minted Red Cedar Distinguished Professors, including MPS faculty member Shinhan Shiu.

Researchers from across the Michigan State University plant science community, including several MPS students, participated in this year’s Science Festival on campus.

Graduate students Xiaotong Jiang and Bailey Kleven are the 2024 recipients of the Keegstra and Thomashow Travel Awards.

Using molecular dynamics, researchers from David Kramer and Josh Vermaas's labs, both MPS faculty members, showed how electrons move through a crystal, jumping from heme to heme.

MPS faculty member Cheryl Kerfeld was a panelist at an event in Washington, DC commemorating US innovation at the nanoscale.

Spartan researchers, including MPS faculty member Cheryl Kerfeld, join a nationwide team to create a new way to design cell-sized microfactories that could help make medicines, biofuels and more.

Max Harman, MPS graduate student, was awarded a 2024 Michigan Soybean Association Scholarship.

In a recent study in Plant Physiology, researchers from MPS faculty member Christoph Benning's lab revealed a misconception that had been growing in plant science about one of the fundamental puzzle pieces of photosynthesis.

The program is a partnership among MSU, the Plant Coalition and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. This includes work from MPS faculty members Courtney Hollender and Robert VanBuren.

In a breakthrough for the snack food industry, a team of scientists led by Professor and MPS faculty member Jiming Jiang and Professor David Douches has discovered a key mechanism behind the darkening and potential health concerns associated with cold-stored potatoes.

From Danny Ducat's lab, a recent publication in Metabolic Engineering looks at how cyanobacteria balance cellular energy between “source and sink,” which may have downstream applications in bioproduction. 

Lucas Reist, a graduate student in the Cell & Molecular Biology and Molecular Plant Science, or MPS, programs attended the 2023 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists, or ABRCMS, in Phoenix, Arizona.