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News

2nd Quarter 2024

Parent lab has an opening for a research associate:

https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/518150/research-associatefixed-term

 

1st Quarter 2024

Parent lab work featured on the cover of Structure along with a highlight publication preview in, Structure: Multiple Masks of a Shigella Podophage.

https://www.cell.com/structure/fulltext/S0969-2126(23)00442-2

Cell Cover

 

4th Quarter 2022

Check out our phage hunting animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCK5chHBM8w

 

2nd Quarter  2021

Congratulations to Kendal Tinney on graduating with a B.S. from Michigan State!

 

"Large metabolic rewiring from small genomic changes between strains of Shigella flexneri"

Published in the Journal of Bacteriology:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33753469/

 


1st Quarter  2021

#WhatthePhage: Phage Hunting with Lincoln Southwest High School.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WIRuLFi0k&feature=youtu.be&disable_polymer=true


 

4th Quarter 2020

Congratulations to Mitch Engel for graduating from MSU.


Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Doore for starting her tenure track position at the University of Florida.


Congratulations to undergraduate Neeraj Padmanabhan for acceptance into medical school!

 

2nd Quarter 2020

Review paper in the Annual Review of Virology published. Ecology, Structure, and Evolution of Shigella Phages


Sarah Doore won the BMB Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award!


New paper published in Cell: Structural and Proteomic Characterization of the Initiation of Giant Virus Infection

College of Natural Science press release: New study shines light on mysterious giant viruses


 

1st Quarter 2020

Kristin elected to the American Society for Virology with the title, Councilor, Prokaryotic Virology.


 

November 2019

Undergraduate Kendal Tinney received the departmental BMB Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

 

July 2019

Phage Virus Assembly Meeting (PVA) 2019

 

June 2019

Doing the "Samba": NatSci's Kristin Parent awarded MSU's first PATH grant

 

April 2019

Jason Schrad receives the Jack Throck Watson Graduate Fellowship in Biochemistry

 

Lab publication in eLife: The phage L capsid decoration protein has a novel OB-fold and an unusual capsid binding strategy

 

February 2019

Feature in Scientia

A Three-Dimensional Approach to Connecting Biology and Chemistry

 

November 2018

Hailee Perrett wins the Anderson Endowed Undergraduate Research Prize for 2018.

 

The Parent lab featured in MSU Today in a video titled, "Under the Microscope: Big Possibilities For Human Health".

 

October 2018

Kristin Parent named James K. Billman Jr. M.D. Endowed Research Professor

 

The Talos Arctica microscope has arrived!

Talos Arctica arrival

Talos Arctica arrival

 

May 2018

Recent publication featured in ASM's Microcosm.

Microcosm feature

 

March 2018

Published:

Genes affecting progression of bacteriophage P22 infection in Salmonella identified by transposon and single gene deletion screens

 

Shigella phages isolated during a dysentery outbreak reveal uncommon structures and broad species diversity

 

February 2018

Published:

Breaking Symmetry in Viral Icosahedral Capsids as Seen through the Lenses of X-ray Crystallography and Cryo-Electron Microscopy

 

January 2018

Kristin wins the NSF Early career award!

NSF early award

Photo courtesy of Harley Seeley

 

October 2017

CryoEM job posting:

CryoEM job posting

October 2017

 

Hailee Perrett receives the MSU College of Natural Science Undergraduate Research Support Scholarship for Fall 2017.

 

May 2017

Natalia presents a poster at ASM

Natalia presents a poster at ASM

Natalia graduated -- Kristin's first graduate student!

Natalia graduated -- Kristin's first graduate student!

Natalia graduated -- Kristin's first graduate student!

Kaitlynne graduated and  won the College of Natural Sciences Outstanding Senior Award

Kaitlynne graduated and  won the College of Natural Sciences Outstanding Senior Award

 

March 2017

Jason Schrad's image and publication featured on the cover of Viruses.

Jason Schrad's image and publication featured on the cover of Viruses.

 

3/28/17

Work also featured in MSUToday

 

February 2017

New Publication from the Parent lab:

Schrad JR, Young EJ, Abrahao JS, Cortines JR, Parent KN. (2017) Microscopic Characterization of the Brazilian Giant Samba Virus. Viruses 2017, 9(2), 30.

 

October 2016

Kristin receives the 2017 ASM Young Investigator Award, which recognizes early career scientists for research excellence and potential in microbiology and infectious diseases.

Natalia receives the 2017 ASM Raymond W. Sarber Award, which recognizes undergraduate and predoctoral students for research excellence and potential.

https://natsci.msu.edu/news-events/news/2016-10-msu-natsci-faculty-member-student-receive-asm-awards

 

August 2016

New Publication from the Parent lab:

Dover JA, Burmeister AR, Molineux IJ, and Parent KN. (2016) Evolved Populations of Shigella flexneri Phage Sf6 Acquire Large Deletions, Altered Genomic Architecture, and Faster Life Cycles. Genome Biol. Evol. 8(9):2827–2840.

 

October 2015

Kristin received AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award

http://www.aaas.org/page/aaas-marion-milligan-mason-award-recipients

Video:

http://www.aaas.org/news/videos-and-photo-gallery-awards-ceremony

Featured in Science (30 October 2015)

August 2014
The lab's first Cryo-EM structure!
Bacteriophage procapsid.
The lab's first Cryo-EM structure! Bacteriophage procapsid.

July 2014
Visiting researcher Cathy Jin (left), UCLA (Gelbrat-Knobler group)
Visiting researcher Cathy Jin (left), UCLA (Gelbrat-Knobler group)

April 2014
Natalia Porcek (left) awarded Rudolph Hugh Fellowship
Natalia Porcek (left) awarded Rudolph Hugh Fellowship