MSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BMB is on the move! Join us as we share the latest and greatest over on: BlueSky 📘bsky.app/profile/msubmb…) LinkedIn! 📘linkedin.com/company/michig…

Next-Generation Photosensitizers: Cyanine-Carborane Salts for Superior Photodynamic Therapy of Metastatic Cancer (Sophia Y. Lunt and co-workers) @SophiaLunt @MSU_BMB #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Prof. Quinn also stopped by @DogWalkBarstool to chat about the microbiome, and how to have a healthier gut! youtube.com/watch?v=WxvZyr…

Listen to your gut! 👂 BMB Associate Prof. @Quinn_Labs recently spoke with @MSUNatSci to unpack the science and stories behind our gut health. natsci.msu.edu/news/2025-01-l…

The #bileacid mania continues! Our lab was lucky to help with this fantastic paper by Frank Schroeder and David Artis et al. published in @Nature. Describes another group of bile acids with significant impacts on human physiology. @Qifenxing @DVGmicrobe rdcu.be/d5DBN

As we say farewell to 2024, we're excited for one last shout out to BMB's incredible @MSUNatSci award winners! Ben Orlando, Robert Last, and Robert Hausinger were honored for their research and mentorship excellence ⤵️ bmb.natsci.msu.edu/news/2024-12-n…

A fantastic new paper out from @Phage4Lyfe and @SundharramanS in @ScienceAdvances--congratulations all! "Moo19 and B2: Structures of Schitoviridae podophages with T = 9 geometry and tailspikes with esterase activity" science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations to BMB researchers @tommyvo_fission, @seunogunwobi, and Christina Chan on being part of @HenryFordHealth + MSU Health Science's 2024 Cancer Seed Funding Program! msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/henr…

Plant and agricultural sciences must make rapid and significant changes to ensure global food security in the face of climate change, according to a @michiganstateu Plant Resilience Institute-led international group of plant researchers. Read the story: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/MSU-p…

Bundle up today, biochemists! 🌨️☃️

A huge congratulations to the Walker and Merz Groups on a new paper in @JACS_Au, including this gorgeous cover art! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Research associate Hillary Fischer has received a $225,000 @USDA grant for her research in aphid saliva. 🪲This work will explore how plant-aphid interaction impacts plant metabolism and plant health! 🌱 natsci.msu.edu/news/2024-11-u…

Great week working with @CoralResilience on #metabolomics of coral bleaching. Can’t wait until our next visit!

For 'Kids' Science Day,' @tommyvo_fission and @SHoribata teamed up to share the secrets of chromatin biology at the Carol J. Greer Community Learning Center! Participants used microscopes and extracted DNA from strawberries to learn the key ideas behind chromatin research 🍓🧬

@DarkMatterDay @MSUNatSci @michiganstateu @MetabolomicsANA @NIH With a five-year, $1.91 million MIRA from the @NIH, the group will target protein-metabolite interactions by casting a wide analytical 'net' into the metabolome. These findings will lead to fundamental discoveries linked to the health and resilience of plants and animals.

Fishing for "dark matter?" Metabolomic mysteries?👻 On this Halloween and @DarkMatterDay, get a look inside the Skirycz Group's exploration of biochemistry's unexplored lands! ⤵️ bmb.natsci.msu.edu/news/2024/2024…

MSU's Plant Biology Conservatory and @MSU_Herbarium have a variety of strange, unique and spooky plants on display. go.msu.edu/C9C5

Awesome days of science at #MANA2024 @MetabolomicsANA the metabolomics field is unstoppable. Our postdoc Hansani won poster award and undergrad gave an awesome talk!! Can’t wait till next year in #Banff my home and native land! 🇨🇦

Leveraging MSU's cryo-EM facility, Ben Orlando and Lee Kroos discovered the final piece of a vast, decades-long puzzle. "This technology helped get us over that mountain, and as it improves, we’ll peer deeper and deeper into new areas of biology." msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/msu-…

And of course a special shoutout to Dr. Doug Gage, VP @msuresearch, and Dr. Bill Henry, Director MSU RTSF, for their continued leadership and support of the core facility!

The core boasts 11 mass spectrometers, 4 dedicated staff scientists, and recently welcomed Dr. @MaryamGoudarzi0 as new facility director who brings 13+ years of metabolomics experience. Let’s collaborate! Reach out at: RTSF.MassSpec@msu.edu rtsf.natsci.msu.edu/mass-spectrome…