Several MSI PIs are part of the new Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC), which is intended to build on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for future public-health emergencies.

MSI PI Walter Low (professor, Neurosurgery) has assumed his new role as Director of the Stem Cell Institute (SCI) in the U of M Medical School.

As we have previously warned, the monthly maintenance period for June at MSI will be longer than usual, with some services and the Agate cluster not returning to service for 2-3 days.

Dr Jonah Cullen, in the MSI research group of PI Molly McCue (professor, Veterinary Population Medicine; Associate Dean of Research, CVM), has recently received a $218,000 grant from the USDA National Institutes of Food and Agriculture to develop pangenome and pantranscriptome graphs for horses.

SummaryMSI reserves the first Wednesdays each month for maintenance tasks on its various computing, storage, and infrastructure systems. The next maintenance period, however, will be extended for 1-2 extra days in order for more upgrades to be completed to make MSI a more reliable and more capable resource for U of M researchers. You will not be able to use the HPC clusters from 5 a.m.

MSI PI Carol Lange (professor, Medicine ; Masonic Cancer Center) has been elected by the Endocrine Society to be the group’s 2025-26 president.