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July 2023 Maintenance
On Wednesday, July 5, 2023, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. MSI’s storage, compute clusters, and front-end servers will be unavailable for some portion of the day. Reminder: any SLURM batch job submitted that has a time limit beyond the beginning of maintenance (5 a.m. Wednesday, July 5) will not be queued to start until after maintenance is completed.
Improving Minnesota Strawberries
Researchers at the U of M’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) have been working for 50 years to improve Minnesota’s strawberry crops. Strawberries are a very popular fruit nationwide and can be a valuable source of income for farmers. MSI PI James Luby (professor, Horticultural Science) is part of this research, which has developed varieties that can be grown in Minnesota and can thrive in the state’s changing climate.
Successful Organ Transplant After Cryopreservation
Successful organ transplantation is hampered by the short time that organs can be preserved outside the body. Long-term cryopreservation is possible, but when re-warming the organ, cells can be damaged by ice or cracking.
Sustainability Projects Funded by the Institute on the Environment Include MSI PIs
The Institute on the Environment has announced funding for projects that seek to solve challenges in sustainability. The projects are interdisciplinary and involve team members from the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses, systemwide Extension units, other Minnesota institutions of higher education, nonprofits, community farms, government, and the private sector. Four of the eight 2023 funded projects include MSI PIs. These projects are (MSI PIs are shown in bold type): Carbon credits for food recovery
A New Device to Alleviate Tinnitus
MSI PI Hubert Lim (professor; Otolaryngology; Biomedical Engineering) is part of an international team that has developed a non-invasive device that can help millions of people with tinnitus, also known as “ringing in the ears.” The device, called Lenire, has been approved by the FDA; it has been used in Europe since 2019. Studies of Lenire showed high rates of improvement after treatment with the device.
June 2023 Maintenance
On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. MSI’s storage, compute clusters, and front-end servers will be unavailable for some portion of the day. A global system reservation will start at 5:00 a.m. on June 7. Jobs that cannot be completed before 5:00 a.m. on June 7 held until after maintenance and then started once the system returns to production status.
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Treat Muscular Dystrophy
MSI PI Rita Perlingeiro (professor, Medicine; Institute for Engineering in Medicine) recently gave a presentation to the 2023 Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical and Scientific Conference about the use of induced pluripotent stem cells for treating muscular dystrophy.

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