October 27, 2024
Congrats to Andrew and Duncan on winning poster awards at the <a href=https://pchem-purdue.github.io/events/TurkeyRun2024/>Midwest/Southeast Regional Photosyntheis Conference!</a>
October 1, 2024
Daipayan’s work on the carboxysome has been <a href=https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402277121>accepted at PNAS!</a>
August 19, 2024
It is Jinxin’s first day in the lab!
August 2, 2024
We are celebrating the end of summer (and Daipayan’s offer for a new job with NIH!) with a pizza party at Georgio’s!
June 2024
The lab has recieved an R35 award from NIH to continue our work in studying natural product transport and activity across biology. See <a href=https://prl.natsci.msu.edu/news-and-events/news/2024-07-josh-vermaas-awarded-nih-mira-grant.aspx> this news article</a> for more information!
May 15, 2024
Duncan is starting his internship at Sandia National Laboratories in California!
April 25, 2024
Congratulations Duncan for winning 1st place for your poster within the basic science division at the Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium (PSGSRS)!
April 13, 2024
We had a great time introducing kids to our research at the MSU Science Festival! Kara did a <a href=https://prl.natsci.msu.edu/news-and-events/news/2024-04-msu-plant-science-community-inspires-future-scientists-at-2024-science-festival.aspx>great writeup</a> about the experience!
April, 2024
Congrats to Dayna on her honorable mention for the NSF GRFP!
March 17, 2024
Murtaza was awarded the best undergraduate talk award at the <a href=https://midwest.aspb.org/meeting/>ASPB Midwest</a> meeting!
March 1, 2024
Our new GraceHopper nodes were featured by <a href=https://icer.msu.edu/about/announcements/nvidia%E2%80%99s-grace-hopper-nodes-arrive-msu%E2%80%99s-data-center-push-boundaries>ICER’s recent newsletter</a>!
January 1, 2024
Luke started as a rotation student. Welcome Luke!
November 30, 2023
Duncan’s activities through CompBioAsia made it to the <a href=https://prl.natsci.msu.edu/news-and-events/news/2023-11-compbioasia-an-international-summit-bringing-computational-biology-together.aspx>PRL website!</a>
October 28-29, 2023
Daipayan gave a great talk, and Neetu won a poster prize at the <a href=https://pchem-purdue.github.io/events/TurkeyRun2023/>Midwest Southeast Photosynthesis Conference!</a>
August 13-17, 2023
Duncan and <a href=https://twitter.com/saadraza128/status/1693390927568552009>Saad are presenting their science</a> at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco!
July 28, 2023
Daipayan’s poster at the <a href=https://twitter.com/MSUDOEPlantLab/status/1686394110704316416>Photosynthesis Gordon Conference was recognized with a poster award!</a>
July 9, 2023
Duncan is off to Singapore as part of <a href=https://www.umt.edu/comp-bio-asia/>CompBioAsia</a>
July 5, 2023
Neetu Yadav has her first day as a postdoc in the group. Welcome!
June 19, 2023
Helen is starting in the lab for a summer internship as part of the <a href=https://education.msu.edu/hshsp/>HSHSP</a> program
May 22, 2023
Israel Davidson joins the group as part of the <a href=https://icer-acres.msu.edu/>ACRES REU program</a>
May 20, 2023
We participated in the Girls Math and Science day sponsored by the Graduate Women in Science.
April 28, 2023
Ducan presented his PLAFP research at the 20th Annual Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium, and also won a prize for his poster presentation!
April 14, 2023
Dayna, Troy, and Rohith presented their research at the <a href=https://urca.msu.edu/uuraf>Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum</a>! Dayna won an award for her poster on PLAFP specificity!
April 1-2, 2023
We had an <a href=https://sciencefestival.msu.edu/Event/View/46>interactive simulation</a> event for the public during the <a href=https://sciencefestival.msu.edu>MSU Science Festival</a>!
March, 2023
Daipayan had two articles published, in <a href=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcsw.2023.100105>The Cell Surface</a> and in <a href=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2023.118587>Chemical Engineering Science</a>.
February 17, 2023
The lab is off to the <a href=https://www.biophysics.org/2023meeting>Biophysical Society annual meeting</a> in San Diego!
January 30, 2023
Closing off the month with a paper published in <a href=https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c07209>JPCB!</a>
January 5, 2023
Happy New Year! We started the year off with a tools paper getting published in <a href=https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13010107>Biomolecules!</a>
December 5, 2022
Josh’s most recent lignin permeation paper has been published in the <a href=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102627>Journal of Biological Chemistry</a>
September 21, 2022
Martin’s work developing a new unwrapping method was <a href=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00327>published in JCTC!</a>
September 1, 2022
Saad’s collaborative research project with the Ong group at MTU was published in <a href=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsapm.2c00854>ACS Applied Polymer Materials!</a>
August 21-26, 2022
Multiple group members are presenting their research at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago!
June 30, 2022
Daipayan won an award to present at the <a href=https://www.ps2022.nz/>18th international Congress on Photosynthesis Research</a> in New Zealand!
June 12, 2022
Duncan left for Thailand to participate in <a href=https://www.umt.edu/comp-bio-asia/>CompBioAsia</a>.
April 8, 2022
Jessica and Dayna presented their research at <a href=https://urca.msu.edu/uuraf>UURAF</a>. Jessica’s poster was awarded a prize for her research!
February 28, 2022
Duncan Boren’s first day in the group!
February 14, 2022
Josh’s past research made a cover at <a href=https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jcisd8/62/3>JCIM</a>!
December 1, 2021
Daipayan’s structural work refining the AstraZeneca vaccine has been published in <a href=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl8213>Science Advacnes</a>!
October 23, 2021
Josh gave at talk at ASU, and they wrote it up into a <a href=https://news.asu.edu/20211101-talented-alum-asus-school-molecular-sciences-returns-lecture>press release</a>!
September 14, 2021
The PRL put out <a href=https://prl.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/news/undergraduates-dayna-olson-and-ian-santiago-awarded-funding-for-research-projects/>an article</a> on Dayna and Ian getting their research awards
August 28, 2021
The <a href=https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.26222>CASP14</a> results Daipayan worked on have been published!
August 25, 2021
Congrats to Dayna and Ian on recieving funding through the <a href=http://computationalscience.org/xsede-empower>XSEDE EMPOWER</a> program!
July 28, 2021
Our undergraduates are presenting at <a href=https://urca.msu.edu/mid-sure>Mid-SURE</a> today!
May 21, 2021
Martin’s work on <a href=https://doi.org/10.2147/JIR.S304787>mutations in SPINK1</a> has been published!
May 3, 2021
Today is Daipayan’s first day!
March 23, 2021
Josh’s SARS-CoV-2 Gigadocking work is <a href=https://doi.org/10.1177/10943420211001565>published!</a>
February 25, 2021
Congratulations Martin on your work getting published in <a href=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84021-2>Scientific Reports!</a>
January 22, 2021
We are excited to have Saad Raza start today!
January 18, 2021
Today is Martin’s first day!
January 1, 2021
Happy New Year! The Vermaas Lab officially starts today.