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April 29, 2026
Sleeping your way to better immunity?
Mizzou researchers link poor sleep to weaker immune responses and reduced vaccine effectiveness The effectiveness of flu vaccination could be hindered by poor sleep like the fragmented sleep patterns experienced with sleep apnea. | Adobe Stock image By Sophie Rentschler | MU Division of Research Poor sleep’s consequences may ripple far beyond feeling tired in the morning; it could also weaken how well vaccines protect you. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found that chronically fragmented sleep (CSF) reduces both the strength and quality of immune responses, potentially limiting the effectiveness of influenza vaccination. “Many people today struggle…
March 3, 2026
Seizing an epidemiological opportunity
The World Cup brings together millions of people. With them, come pathogens and an opportunity to study their spread. | Adobe Stock image 2026 FIFA World Cup wastewater presents chance for Mizzou professor to track traveling pathogens By Sophie Rentschler | MU Division of Research The structure of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is an epidemiologist’s dream. Five million visitors from across the world will amass to watch or play in the soccer competition, and Marc Johnson sees this clustering of people as pathogen data collection opportunity. Kicking off on June 11, 2026, the World Cup is slated to welcome…
Jan. 26, 2026
Warren recognized for outstanding achievement by The Academy of Science of St. Louis
Congratulations are in order for Bond LSC’s Wes Warren. He is among honorees of the The Academy of Science — St. Louis for 2026. Receiving the Fellows Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science, the Bond LSC principal investigator and Curators’ Professor of Genomics in the Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Surgery, and the Data Science and Informatics Institute joins six prominent scientists and one collaborative program in receiving accolades. They will be officially recognized at an awards ceremony April 8, 2026, at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Read the full release below. ——- Monday, January 26, 2026 THE…
Nov. 14, 2025
Ron Mittler and Bing Yang among 2025 Highly Cited Researchers
Oct. 13, 2025
Core leads labs through bioinformatics bottleneck to better results
Bioinformatics and Analytics Core senior bioinformatics engineer Yulia Innokenteva, left, core interim director Hong An and BAC data scientist Chunhui Xu, left, pose in front of a wall of greenery at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. | Photo by Evan Johnson, Division of Research By Sophie Rentschler | Division of Research Ti Lu spends her days perfecting a vaccine, giving shots to charge mouse immune systems to fight off disease, but the hefty data from her samples needs the expertise of Mizzou’s Bioinformatics and Analytics Core (BAC) to help make sense of…
Sep. 25, 2025
An intercellular snapshot
Research Specialist Kathy Rodriguez-Lukey examines mouse ovarian tumor samples using a point scanning confocal microscope Sept. 24 in the Bond LSC Advanced Light Microscopy Core. The wide scan microscope allows users to adjust the way light wavelengths are captured for more fine-tuned imaging results. | Photo by Evan Johnson, Division of Research How advanced light microscopy brings clarity to research questions By Sophie Rentschler | Division of Research Under the microscope, the slice of mouse organ tissue resembled a mix of swirling indigo sky from Van Gogh’s Starry Night mixed with one of Monet’s impressionistic water lily paintings. While it…
Sep. 16, 2025
Burke-Agüero, Warren among those named new Curators’ Distinguished Professors
Aug. 19, 2025
New Joy of Discovery sculpture images celebrate art in science
Aug. 13, 2025
Flu fighters: Mizzou researchers getting a closer look at immune response to influenza
July 17, 2025
Research steps: the movement behind making science work
Mett Nelson is a research engineering technician with the Bond LSC facilities crew. They keep the buildings parts — from air handlers and refrigeration to electrical supplies and scientific instruments — running when problems arise. | photo by Roger Meissen, Mizzou Division of Research By Sophie Rentschler | Bond LSC Each day Bond Life Sciences Center’s occupants collectively contribute hundreds of thousands of steps in the pursuit of science. Faculty, staff and students can be seen hurrying across its bridges that connect east and west wings of the building, and one can get a full picture of the people contributing…
May 22, 2025
How large language models can lead to disease analysis
Mizzou researchers train AI models with social media posts to analysis COVID-19 By Sophie Rentschler | Bond LSC Social media is where some turn when they get sick, searching for what their symptoms mean and forms of treatment. People turned to Twitter to share symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Jiacheng Xie, PhD student in Dong Xu’s lab at Bond Life Sciences Center, saw this online crowd seeking answers as a dataset ripe to draw conclusions. Now, this sharing helps him still keep tabs on the disease using social media after most agencies have put case…
May 16, 2025
Stacey receives Hales Prize from ASPB
Congrats to Bond LSC principal investigator Gary Stacey for recently receiving the 2025 Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) for his noteworthy service in plant biology. His home department wrote up this summary of the award.