Student Spotlight: Melanie Madrigal 🌟

PhD student in Biological Sciences studying how fungal pathogens adapt to plant defenses using lab + computational work. Future Scholars Fellow, flower arranger, and scone baker outside the lab. 🔬🧪

#LSUScience

From @lsu.bsky.social to the @nytimes.com! Daniel Geldof, @lsumns.bsky.social alumnus, shows how the rockhead poacher may use its massive skull to make sound in noisy tidal zones. 🔊🐟 #LSUScience
✨🔗:
https://nyti.ms/4jzAor3
https://bit.ly/4pBPU7c
https://bit.ly/49gJvto

LSU faculty member Hollie Hale-Donze found a new way to teach infectious diseases: ImmunoWars. Now @LSUscience, Harvard and Dutch medical schools are helping the creators refine the game for wider audiences, turning complex immunology into fast, fun learning.
FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/45fsFsq

Meet Morgan, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in medical physics at LSU whose research at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center uses MRI and MR-Linac technology to improve radiation therapy safety and precision, directly impacting patient care 🔬🏥
#LSUScience

Throw back to our November 2024 Star Party event! All photos were taken through our various telescopes🔭 While some turned out better than others, they offer a glimpse of the incredible wonders visible from our observatory!🪐 #LSU #LSUScience @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social

The LSU Department of Mathematics has awarded a 2024 Arthur K. Barton Superior Graduate Student Scholarship to Esme Rosen.

In addition to her outstanding research, we also recognize Esme’s valuable service to the number theory community.
#LSUMath #GeauxScience #ScholarshipFirst #LSUScience

Meet the new faculty and learn more about the research they're bringing to the College of Science. 💜🐯

Read more: www.lsu.edu/science/news...

#GeauxScience #LSUScience

Calling curious kids in grades 4–6 🔬
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the @lsumns.bsky.social, hands-on science activities, and time with LSU scientists.
📅 Feb 21 | ⏰ 10:30–2:45 | 📝 Apps open now, due Jan 30!
Apply here : https://bit.ly/3RXu8vY
#LSUScience #BatonRougeEvents #STEMKids

We were proud to welcome Stamps Scholarship finalists to campus as they explored what it means to be part of the LSU community. 🐯

#LSUScience #StampsScholarship #FutureTigers #LSUHonors

Huge congratulations to @lsu.bsky.social Prof. Jeffery Blackmon on being elected to the Chair-line of the @apsphysics.bsky.social Division of Nuclear Physics. 🎉
#lsuphysics #lsuastronomy #lsuscience #wbttw

BR, stop doomscrolling and come look at actual stars 🤭
We’ve got a Star Party with telescopes aimed at the Moon, planets, and whatever else is glowing up there ✨
🎟️ Totally free
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family friendly
🚫 Not wheelchair accessible
@lsuscience.bsky.social #LSUScience #LSUAstronomy #LSUPhysics #StarParty

Our preprint on psbA translational control in algae has been revised. We argue that this process is more similar in algae and plants than previously thought. However, the occurrence of suppressor mutations in Chlamy suggests there's more to learn! #lsuscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RT @lsuscience: Analytics at bat! How @LSUsoftball and @lsumath are teaming up to turn data into wins.