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March 2017 Maintenance
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. CST, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to the network and various MSI systems. During this month's scheduled maintenance period MSI staff will be applying a Primary Storage (Panasas) update. This update IS disruptive, and as a result Primary Storage will be unavailable throughout the day. March maintenance will include:
MSI PIs Head Collaborative Research Network
Three MSI faculty users are principal investigators on a project to increase collaboration between University of Minnesota researchers and their counterparts in Latin America. The network, which is funded by an OVPR International Capacity Building grant and the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, aims to establish a number of projects with colleagues in several Latin American countries.
MSI PI Studying Opioid Abuse Epidemic
MSI PI Pinar Karaca-Mandic, an associate professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year that investigated prescription practices of opioids to Medicare patients. Professor Karaca-Mandic is interested in understanding the current opioid-abuse epidemic and trying to figure out ways to fight it.
MSI PI Dumitrica Part of New NASA-Funded Materials Institute
MSI PI Traian Dumitrica, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is part of the new Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP), funded by NASA. The Institute focuses on the rapid development of technologies critical for extending human presence deeper into our solar system.
Studying Changes in Immigrants’ Gut Microbiomes
The research of graduate student Pajau Vangay, who is in the group of Assistant Professor Dan Knights, an assistant professor at the Biotechnology Institute and Department of Computer Science and Engineering), was featured on the website Quartz. Ms. Vangay is studying how the microbiomes of Hmong and Karen immigrants in Minneapolis and St. Paul change after they come to the U.S.
MSI PI Part of Nationwide Study That Identifies Autism Biomarkers
MSI PI Jed Elison, an assistant professor in the Institute of Child Development, is a co-author on a nationwide study that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to discover biomarkers for future development of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) in infants. The results of the study, published this week in the prestigious journal Nature, studied the brains of babies who had older siblings with autism. They were able to predict development of ASD with 80 percent accuracy.
Cancer Drug for Dogs Could Help Humans
MSI PI Jaime Modiano, a professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, is a co-author on a study that showed that a new UMN-developed drug significantly lengthened the life of dogs with a fast-spreading and incurable cancer called hemangiosarcoma. The researchers are excited about this result and hope that it can eventually be extended to treatment for human cancers.
MSI PI Rhonda Franklin Receives Award for Academic Advising
MSI PI Rhonda Franklin (Electrical and Computer Engineering) has been selected for a 2017 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The awards will be presented at the annual Tate Conference and Award Ceremony on March 9, 2017. Professor Franklin and her group use MSI resources to help design and test the performance of microwave antennas and circuits.
Six MSI PIs Named McKnight Land-Grant Professors
Six MSI PIs are among the nine faculty members who have been named 2017-2019 McKnight Land-Grant Professors. The goal of this program is to advance the careers of new assistant professors and includes a research grant of $25,000 in each of the two years of the award. The MSI PIs who have received this award are:
U Joins New National Consortium for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
The University of Minnesota is participating in a team of academic institutions, private companies, government agencies, and non-profits from across the country to create the new National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). This group aims to transform biopharmaceutical manufacturing in the U.S.
MSI PI Bin He Featured in Minneapolis City Pages
Professor Bin He, an MSI PI from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine is featured in Minneapolis’s City Pages. The special issue is called “People Issue 2017: 18 Who Make Minnesota a Better Place to Live.”

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