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MGI graduate student Soledad Soverina has been awarded the prestigious Barnett Rosenberg Endowed Research Assistantship!
Her research focuses on immune responses in the lungs to M. abscessus, a bacterium that can cause serious respiratory infections.
Read more: tinyurl.com/4mxc5d4j
Congratulations to MGI graduate student Danielle Gregory of the Manning/Dodd Lab for receiving the Sustainable Development Goals Poster Award at the ASM Microbe conference this past week! Great work!
MGI Professor @chrisadami.bsky.social will be speaking at the virtual Ellison Insights Forum at 10 am on June 12th. The theme of the event is how AI could accelerate cancer drug discovery and treatment.
To hear his talk, you can register for free at emila.org/insights.
The fellowship will support her summer project and training in the responsible use of AI in scientific research.
Three graduate students working in MGI labs have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships which will provide three years of support to these outstanding young researchers.
Read more about Elena Renshaw, Alice Walker, and Bryce Waller: tinyurl.com/4v5cc5fs
Congratulations to MGI grad student Emma Bush, a recipient of the inaugural @msunatsci.bsky.social SMART Fellowship!
Emma uses next-gen sequencing to explore how chromatin structure shapes antibody gene recombination in B cells—work that is essential to understanding adaptive immunity.
Congratulations to Dohun Pyeon, PhD @dpyeon.bsky.social, on being named an MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor! Pyeon recently led a team that discovered how HPV-positive tumors evade the immune system, a breakthrough that could help advance more effective cancer treatments.
Congratulations to MGI MSU Foundation Distinguished Professor Dohun Pyeon on his induction into the AAAS!
Dr. Pyeon was recognized for his research into HPV-associated cancers.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/yc3x65yz
@dpyeon.bsky.social
Congratulations to MGI graduate students Kevin Santiago-Morales and Jessica Lysne who were awarded Dissertation Fellowships from the College of Natural Science and the Graduate School! 👏
Read more here: tinyurl.com/4cps8jza
