MGI Chair Vic DiRita sat down with MSU College of Natural Science to talk about the best way to protect yourself from flu: the flu vaccine. Read more here: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-…

Got an email today that the study section I’m serving on in TWO days is postponed until “a later date”

Gutting the NIH will kill Americans: - Patients lose access to lifesaving medicine - 1000s of lost jobs at NIH and across academia - No research funding = no new medicines and treatments - Fewer trainees/medicines = pharma + health sector crash These are only a few. Buckle up.

Predicted and predictable, unfortunately, I will attach an infographic from an article I wrote recently on the measles death rates, also an article from a decade ago I wrote explaining why this would likely happen in Texas

[THREAD] This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t given by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

🎉 Huge congratulations to MGI grad students Hazel McGuffin & Sarah Gonzalez Henao for their incredible performances in MSU’s 3 Minute Thesis competition! 🏆 Hazel took 1st place & will represent MSU at regionals, while Sarah earned 3rd place! 👏👏 #SpartanScience #3MT #MSU

Good night 5/8 H and got 2 piece from vault. Waiting to use my KSM token for that coveted 4 piece. 😊 let’s goooooo

We're hiring a bioinformatics postdoc to join our growing lab and explore viral ecology, metagenomics, and host-microbe interactions! integrativeviromicslab.com/open-positions

Congratulations to MSU Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology doctoral candidate Charles Whitehead-Tillery on winning a 2025 AGEP Scholar Award from the @MSUGraduateSchool! Charles is working in the Mansfield Lab studying Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases.

Woohooo

Congratulations to MSU Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology Prof and MSU College of Natural Science Assoc Dean Gemma Reguera on her election as a AAAS Fellow! This is recognition for her important research in environmental microbiology and her leadership in the field. 👏 Read more: tinyurl.com/38hertx6

A wife and husband professor team at MSU are collaborating with researchers at UC Riverside to create a new light-activated “smart” bomb to treat aggressive breast #cancer.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, a cherished member of the MSU community and a Professor in MGI & the Small Animal Clinical Science department. Read about her extraordinary legacy here: tinyurl.com/22ks8r8e

Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease buff.ly/iQc4H0H #bwfpath

A revamped facility space, installation of advanced instruments, and the vision of a new director are providing Spartan scientists with the tools they need to achieve cutting-edge science at MSU’s #MassSpectrometry and #Metabolomics Core.

Only took > 8 years!

Omg

Having to update your faculty profile to a current photo has to be the most upsetting thing ever lol

With the expansion of MSU's cryo-EM facility we will be able to answer questions that were once beyond our reach. Discoveries, services and more: cryo-em.natsci.msu.edu #CryoEM #Science #Discovery

.MSU received the 2025 Golden Goose Award for the scientific success and global impact of #cisplatin, the gold standard of #cancer-fighting #chemotherapy treatments. natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025…