MSI News

MSI PI Changquan Calvin Sun (professor, Pharmaceutics) is part of the 2022 class of Fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

MSI PI Kate Adamala (assistant professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development) is leading a multi-institutional team, the Build-a-Cell Network, that is looking for ways to build synthetic cells.

MSI PI Yousef Saad (professor; Computer Science and Engineering) has won the 2023 John von Neumann Award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

MSI PI Dean Malvick (professor, Plant Pathology) is studying the diseases corn Tar Spot and soybean Sudden Death Syndrome, which can greatly reduce the yield of the crops they infect.

Several MSI PIs have been named McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2023-25.

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, or CASC, welcomes the newly elected CASC executive committee members to represent 100 of the most forward-thinking research computing and data organizations from academic institutions, national labs, and research centers around the U.S.

Professor Damien Fair (co-Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB); Institute of Child Development; Pediatrics) has received the 2022 Eva King Killiam Research Award.

University of Minnesota researchers, including MSI PI James Anderson (professor, Agronomy and Plant Genetics), are investigating varieties of wheat and different baking methods that may help those with wheat intolerance enjoy bread.

MSI PI Sam Kelly (associate professor, Large Lakes Observatory; UMD Physics and Astronomy) is part of an international research team that will use satellites to measure the height of water in oceans, lakes, and rivers across the planet.

Three MSI PIs have been named to the Academy for Excellence in Team Science, one of the Academies for Excellence at the University of Minnesota.The three faculty members are:Assistant Professor Peter Larsen (Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences)Professor Larsen uses MSI resources to perform multi-omic analyses that investigate epigenomic vulnerabilities contributing to the origin of sporadic disease and emerging zoonoses at the wildlife-livestock interface.Professor Sang-Hyun Oh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)Professor Oh uses MSI for research into the interaction of light with metallic nanostructures for the use of biosensing, metamaterials, and spectroscopy.Assistant Professor Tiffany Wolf (Veterinary Population Medicine)Professor Wolf uses MSI resources for metagenomic studies that are part of research into brainworm infection in the Minnesota moose population..

On Wednesday, January 4, 2023, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.