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MSU Plant Resilience Institute
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The PRI facilitates interdisciplinary #plantscience at Michigan State University. 🌱 We're tackling the challenge of improving plant resilience in a changing world. Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu
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Wishing our PRI community, collaborators, and friends a joyful holiday season! Here’s to continued discovery and growth in the year ahead. Happy holidays from all of us at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute!
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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C-SPIRIT is representing at the 2025 Integrated Crop and Pest Management Update for Agribusiness hosted by Michigan State University Extension!

If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130!

#plantscience
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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We’re excited to share the MSU Plant Resilience Institute’s 2025 Annual Report!

From breakthrough discoveries to global collaborations, join us in celebrating another year of extraordinary growth and scientific achievement at PRI.

🌱 Explore the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This postdoc position is open until December 23! If you're interested in conducting cold acclimation and freezing tolerance experiments on the bioenergy crop switchgrass, apply now: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PostdocOpportunity #ResearchCareers #AcademicJobs
msupri.bsky.social MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · Nov 21
Now hiring! 📣 @davidlowry.bsky.social's lab at MSU is searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass.

Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience
A graphic with faded background images of switchgrass plants and the Plant Resilience Institute logo in the top left corner. In a green gradient arrow, there is text that says, “Now Hiring: Lowry Lab Postdoctoral Researcher.” In the bottom right corner, there is the MSU PRI logo and the text, “Apply online at careers.msu.edu.”
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Undergraduates interested in researching how life interacts with water are invited to apply for the WALII Summer Internship Program, which includes opportunities at the Rhee and VanBuren labs at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute! MSU applications are due February 1, 2026: walii.science/careers.html
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We’re excited to share that applications are NOW OPEN for the 2026 WALII Summer Internships!

Learn more and apply here: www.walii.science/careers.html
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December 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Come visit our booth at the Great Lakes EXPO! We're here at Booth 1340 🌿

#GLEXPO
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Happy #WorldSoilDay! PRI faculty member @sprunger.bsky.social is at the forefront of soil research, developing new methodologies to use nematodes as bioindicators for soil health, linking soil biodiversity to productivity, carbon accumulation, and climate resiliency. 🪱 Learn more: sprungerlab.com
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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PRI is proud to highlight the extraordinary achievements of 3 faculty recognized with awards from the College of Natural Science:

Emily Josephs: Teacher-Scholar Award
David Lowry: Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
Sue Rhee: Research Leadership Award

Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚨 Hiring alert! MSU's Plant Resilience Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance discovery of new regulatory metabolites driving plant stress responses. #PlantSciJobs

Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Come see us and @c-spirit.org next week at #GLEXPO! The Great Lakes EXPO brings together growers, industry professionals, and agricultural scientists in one of the largest specialty ag trade shows in North America. Learn more and register at glexpo.com. 🧑‍🌾
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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PRI is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong computational and data science skills to join a project focused on identifying causal environmental drivers of crop resilience and yield.

🧬 Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience
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December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Today is #GivingTuesday, and it's a chance to support the Plant Resilience Institute scientists working to solve grand challenges in the face of climate change.

Join us in giving to PRI's Plant Innovation Fund to fuel innovations in plant resilience: plantresilience.msu.edu/Contribute/index.aspx 🌱
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December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Registration is NOW OPEN for the Three-Part Data Reproducibility Workshop Series (February 9-11, 2026 9:00 AM PST/12:00 PM EST)

To Learn More and Register, Visit: www.plantcellatlas.org/events.html?...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The PCA and C-SPIRIT Single Cell Curation Effort is now live 🌱
Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas.

Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....

#plantscience
plantcellatlas.bsky.social Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · Nov 26
Together with @c-spirit.org, the PCA has curated 186 single cell plant papers to help with ingestion into the EBI's Single Cell Expression Atlas!

You can view this list of papers here: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers....
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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We are thrilled to share that PRI faculty member Sarah Lebeis has been appointed science director at @glbioenergy.bsky.social!

Read the story of Sarah's expertise in plant-microbe interactions and her commitment to advancing sustainable bioenergy cropping systems: www.glbrc.org/news/unravel...
Unraveling the mysteries of the plant microbiome
Three years after joining the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University microbiologist Sarah Lebeis has been tapped to guide the center’s scientific research. Lebeis, an associ...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Now hiring! 📣 @davidlowry.bsky.social's lab at MSU is searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass.

Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🌱🔬 Exciting news from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center! MGI assoc prof Sarah Lebeis has been appointed science director, leading groundbreaking research into the plant microbiome.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/48eynzvr
Associate Professor Sarah Lebeis, right, talks to lab manager Keara Grady in her lab at Michigan State University, where she studies the complex interactions of plants and the communities of microbes that inhabit their root systems.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives.

Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...

#PlantScience
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November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Congrats to Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social), Hui-Kyong Cho, Nadia Bouain, Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social ), & team on their new paper showing how plants sense low phosphorus & delay flowering thru bGLU25 & GRP7🎉
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November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A newly discovered signaling pathway from Michigan State University Plant Resilience Institute researchers explains how plants delay flowering when phosphorus runs low, opening doors to nutrient-efficient crops.

Read the full story: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...

#PlantScience #SustainableAg
Scientists uncover a phosphorus-responsive switch in plants
A newly discovered signaling pathway by MSU researchers explains how plants delay flowering when phosphorus runs low, opening doors to nutrient-efficient crops.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Today is the last day to register!! Join us TOMORROW!

Meet the individuals selected to present their research at the first annual WALII Symposium!

Check out the talk title below from the final speaker of Session Four.

Visit www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

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November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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MSU’s new Plant and Environmental Sciences building is set to be finished in early March 2027. WDBM’s Liam Clymer spoke with students and faculty to understand the importance of the facility and its symbolic meaning to campus.

Watch the video here: youtu.be/j2eHzegByJU?...
MSU’s new Plant and Environmental Sciences building construction underway
MSU’s new Plant and Environmental Sciences building, which began construction in Oct. 2024, is set to be finished in early March 2027. On the corner of Farm and Wilson, the facility is being built to…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Meet the individuals selected to present their research at the first annual WALII Symposium!

Check out the talk titles below from two speakers of Session Three.

Visit www.walii.science/virtual-symp... to see the full schedule of talks and register to attend!

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November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The Plant Resilience Institute and @c-spirit.org will be at the 2025 Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO! Come connect with us and learn about the latest agricultural innovations in Michigan. Early-bird registration ends November 15! Learn more and register at: glexpo.com #GLEXPO
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November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM