An amazing year full of excitement, adventures, travels, and networking. Great people at all levels and places. Looking forward to another exciting year in 2026! A huge thanks to Maricar and Ashley for an amazing job coordinating and promoting C-SPIRIT. I couldn't have asked for a better team!
The MSU Plant Resilience Institute's 2025 Annual Report is now live!
PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries.
Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...
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Congrats to C-SPIRIT’s Karine Prado, Matt Stata, Charles Hawkins, Sue Rhee as well as their colleagues on their new manuscript! 🌿
The team shows how a desert plant rewires photosynthesis to thrive in extreme heat 🌡️
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Michigan State University Plant Resilience Institute Director Sue Rhee stands in a field wearing a lab coat and holding a large beaker filled with soil planted with various small crops.
Plant scientists at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute, including @rheelab.bsky.social, stand ready to meet the challenge of improving global food security. Read more about how MSU is working to build climate-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/10...
#SpartansWill #PlantResilience
New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this @sciencenews.bsky.social story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from @rheelab.bsky.social.
#PlantScience #PlantResilience
Our new paper in Current Biology is getting some media attention: Our Current Biology paper is getting some media attention. Congrats to our senior research associate Karine Prado! Here's a piece from Science News: www.sciencenews.org/article/deat...
@jpmsantiago.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social
Very exciting discovery from Hatem's lab. Happy to have been a contributor!
Very exciting discovery with @msupri.bsky.social's Hatem Rouached and @msupri.bsky.social's @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social labs
👏 Congrats to C-SPIRIT member Tae-Jin Oh (Sun Moon University) & colleagues on their new Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics paper! They discovered CYP107E41, a novel enzyme advancing green biocatalysis, echoing C-SPIRIT’s mission for sustainable ag.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ab...
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A new review article from @msupri.bsky.social scientists with collaboration from ag industry colleagues. Building climate-resilient crops: genetic, environmental, and technological strategies for heat and drought stress tolerance url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
We are now 14 members! Join us!
Promotional infographic for the speakers of the first WALII symposium. This promo highlights Dr. Mariana Silva Artur from the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University & Research , and includes her bio, headshot, and link to her website.
Meet the speakers of the very first inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water, happening Tuesday, Nov 18! 💧
To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp...
To Learn More about Dr. Mariana Silva Artur: www.mariana-artur.com
@marianasartur.bsky.social
🎉 Congrats to Daisuke Todaka, Motoaki Seki, Kenji Miura, & colleagues on their new paper in Scientific Reports!
4-CPA & ethanol boost tomato growth, fruit quality, & heat tolerance — advancing C-SPIRIT’s mission for sustainable, resilient agriculture. 🌱🍅
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Upcoming C-SPIRIT team member talk! Director of the Plant Resilience Institute & C-SPIRIT Michigan State University Dr. Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee Talk Title: Drug discovery for agriculture: Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience through International Teamwork (C-SPIRIT) Tuesday, October 21st 6:30 - 7:15 pm CT Learn more!
C-SPIRIT’s Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) is giving a keynote at the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress! 🌱
🗓️ Oct 21 | 6:30-7:15 pm CT
💬 Drug discovery for agriculture: Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience through International Teamwork
See more: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx
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I am so excited to have Chris join the PRI. Chris is one of the most creative scientists I know and I can't wait to be able to collaborate and synergize with him and his group at MSU!
Open rank faculty positions available at MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/yy2kvt3n
Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi
@rheelab.bsky.social @istudytrust.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @bobvanburen.bsky.social @santastic-k.bsky.social @nicolabiologist.bsky.social @wishartnode.bsky.social @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @asherpasha.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @alenzimic10.bsky.social@lichmanlab.bsky.social
@roseamarks.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social @boeynaemssteven.bsky.social @alexholehouse.bsky.social @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social @bobvanburen.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social @shaharsu.bsky.social
NEWS & VIEWS: Turning the knobs: The impact of glutathionylation on starch metabolism (Anna Moseler) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
A woman giving a talk with a slide that says "how can organisms respond to change? Adapt, move, die". Another woman in the front row wears a blouse with skulls on it.
This photo does not capture the amazing energy & enthusiasm of @llseedsull.bsky.social's amazing tenure talk today!!! (Although I did manage to get the Capsella cameo & @andreacase.bsky.social's "not a threat I promise" blouse
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Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.
PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Deadline: October 15.
Image text: Call for Content. #PlantBio2026. plantbiology.aspb.org. Featuring ASPB, CSPB/SCBV & PB26 logos on a themed-background
📣 The #PlantBio2026 Program Committee is pleased to announce that the abstract submission portal is now open! plantbiology.aspb.org/submit-a-pro...
The Plant Biology conference is developed for the plant science community, by members of the plant science community—that means YOU!
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A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New Publication! Learn more & read the article! Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Members Daisuke Todaka, Motoaki Seki, and their colleagues on the publication of their article Light photon flux density affects ethanol-mediated drought avoidance in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in Plant Biotechnology!
Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Daisuke Todaka and Motoaki Seki (RIKEN CSRS) and colleagues on their new Plant Biotechnology paper! 🎉
Their study shows ethanol plus sufficient light boosts cassava drought resilience by activating ABA signaling & more. 🌱🌍
🔗 doi.org/10.5511/plan...
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Promotional graphic for the 'First WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water.' The graphic features a sandy, desert landscape with a blue sky background. The WALII logo is present on the bottom of the graphic. The rest of the text reads: "Abstract Submission Guidelines Abstracts should be no longer than 1 page and submitted as a PDF or Word document. Please include: Title Author(s) - presenter name in bold Affiliation Abstract Abstract Submission Deadline: October 9, 2025."
Just under two weeks left to submit an abstract for a contributed talk at the first inaugural WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025!
Selected speakers will present 10-12 min. talks followed by 3-5 min. of Q&A.
Visit: walii.science/virtual-symp...
@rheelab.bsky.social at Michigan State University is looking to hire a new postdoc position to work on nematodes for desiccation tolerance and plant-pathogenic nematode interactions on both the WALII and @c-spirit.org grants.
For more information, visit: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
A graphic with a faded background image of a nematode and the PRI, Rhee Lab, C-SPIRIT, and WALII logos at the top. In a green gradient arrow, there is text that says, “Now Hiring: Rhee Lab Postdoctoral Researcher.” In the bottom right corner, there is text that says, “Apply online at careers.msu.edu” and the MSU PRI logo.
The @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱
Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs
C-SPIRIT at the 2025 NSF Global Centers Community Building meeting! Picture 1: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee at a lectern, presenting her elevator pitch on C-SPIRIT Picture 2: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee and Aim 5 Lead Kari Sant meeting with leadership from the NSF Global Center Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP)
C-SPIRIT was at the NSF Global Centers Community Building Meeting this week! 🌱
Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) pitched our mission to boost soil health, crop resilience, & food security, and we connected folks from the ASAP Global Center. 🌍
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