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A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Rose Marks, a Michigan State University Plant Resilience Institute postdoctoral fellow in the VanBuren Lab, sheds new light on the evolutionary origins and mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants.

Alethia Pratas da Costa Braun, a Michigan State University undergraduate student in crop and soil sciences working in the Lundquist Lab with the Plant Resilience Institute, has been awarded the prestigious American Society of Plant Biologists Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (ASPB SURF).

Alethia Pratas da Costa Braun, estudante de graduação em ciências de culturas e solo da Universidade Estadual de Michigan que trabalha no Laboratório Lundquist com o Instituto de Resiliência de Plantas, foi premiada com a prestigiada American Society of Plant Biologists Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (ASPB SURF).

PRI faculty member Peter Lundquist has won a $1.5 million Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The award supports his search for “master regulators” in the stress response of plants.

PRI Faculty Member Christine Sprunger was named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Sprunger is one of only ten new ESA Early Career Fellows (2024–2028) elected for advancing ecology and showing promise for continuing contributions.

Christine Sprunger, a Plant Resilience Institute faculty member, will serve as the principal investigator for a project funded through the new Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program focused on providing Michigan field crop farmers the information they need to build climate-resilient cropping systems.

During the Banbury Center’s October 2023 meeting, “The Future of Plant-Environment Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Climate,” Sue Rhee had an opportunity to speak with Jenna Jacobs from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Banbury Center.