MSU Plant Resilience Institute
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The PRI facilitates interdisciplinary plant science @MichiganStateU. We're tackling the challenge of improving plant resilience in a changing world.
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PRI undergraduate Alethia Pratas da Costa Braun recently began her ASPB SURF project researching the heat resilience of cowpea in order to help bridge the gap between scientific innovation and practical agricultural needs. Read the full story here: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/aleth…
A groundbreaking new collaborative Nature Plants paper led by Rose A Marks, a MSU PRI postdoc fellow in the Robert VanBuren Lab, sheds new light on the evolutionary origins & mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants. Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/marks…
PRI Director and MSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Professor Sue Rhee was part of a team of researchers at MSU and Stanford University that developed breakthrough DIY lab tools to evaluate plant-derived molecules in just minutes! Read the full story: bmb.natsci.msu.edu/news/2024/2024…
PRI faculty member Thomas D Sharkey, a collaborator on the paper, showed that poplars engineered to produce squalene emit less of a gas that indirectly contributes to the greenhouse effect. Read the full story: bmb.natsci.msu.edu/news/2024/2024…
Plant Cell Atlas (PlantCellAtlas) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to lead single cell approaches in plant resilience research and coordinate the PCA community! This postdoc will be co-advised by Drs. Rhee and VanBuren at PRI! 🌿 Apply now: careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…
Congratulations to PRI faculty member Christine Sprunger for her promotion to MSU-PSM Department Associate Professor and to PRI Associate Director David Lowry for his promotion to full Professor of Plant Biology!
Congratulations to Rose A Marks and Robert VanBuren for making the cover of Nature Plants! Read the full story on their study revealing convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in resurrection grasses here: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/marks…
Come work with us! We have openings for research technicians to be part of a great team overseeing the long-term agroecosystem research at the Kellogg Biological Station LTER, Kellogg Biological Station LTAR & Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. Apply today! Position start now through the fall. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5202…
Congratulations to PRI faculty member Dr. Peter K. Lundquist for his promotion to MSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Associate Professor! 🧪🌱
The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Andrea Glassmire as an Assistant Professor! Dr. Glassmire will hold joint appointments in the departments of Plant Biology and MSU Entomology. Read the full story here: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/pri-w…