Plant Science Faculty Hiring Initiative

Overview

Join our community of over 200 plant science faculty, embracing collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to foundational and applied research. MSU intends to extend its plant science leadership through a five-year recruiting initiative, bringing together new talent and current MSU experts around key research priorities. This broad hiring initiative includes 20-25 new positions across MSU departments, centers, and institutes that span colleges and impact many aspects of plant science and agricultural scholarship. Become a part of a renowned legacy, spanning decades of pioneering contributions to plant science research.

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Featured Position

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Assistant/Associate Professor
Application review begins: November 4, 2024

The MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) invites applications for a full time, Assistant/Associate Professor position. Candidates with a focus on relevant research areas, including but not limited to mechanisms and regulation of photosynthetic light reactions, light capture and energy dissipation, electron transport reactions, primary metabolism and carbon allocation, development, organelle biogenesis/biology, biotic and abiotic stress, or integration of growth and environment. Individuals are expected to employ state-of-the art approaches, which may include but are not limited to advanced spectroscopic tools, molecular and structural biology, cell biology, genetics and genomics, metabolomics, synthetic biology, phenomics, or predictive modeling. For more information, see posting #983763 on careers.msu.edu.

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Plant Science News

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MSU trustees approve construction of new Plant and Environmental Sciences Building

In September 2024, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees voted to authorize construction of a new Plant and Environmental Sciences Building. This 200,000-square foot facility will provide critical laboratory space for approximately 40 principal investigators and their teams, advancing MSU’s leadership in food security and climate adaptation.

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Andrea Glassmire Joins MSU

Glassmire, a broadly trained plant ecologist, has extensive expertise in community ecology, plant chemistry, experimental design, and statistics. Her research focuses on how metabolomics mediate the complex interactions between plants, microbes, herbivores, and associated predators in order to improve pest management strategies and better understand species invasions.