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Nov. 13, 2025
Ron Mittler and Bing Yang among 2025 Highly Cited Researchers
Oct. 12, 2025
Core leads labs through bioinformatics bottleneck to better results
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 it. To prevent Shigella flexneri — a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea in third world countries — the assistant research professor in the lab of Wendy Picking at Bond Life Sciences Center, has to sort through troves of data unveiled from mice organelles given versions of the vaccine.
Sep. 24, 2025
An intercellular snapshot
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 could be mistaken for abstract art, this high-definition picture of cellular interactions and distinct structures tagged with bright, highlighter-esque colors are the exact images Paul de Figueiredo needs to explore a form of cancer treatment. “Our eyes are one of our major senses,” said de Figueiredo, a Bond…
Sep. 15, 2025
Burke-Agüero, Warren among those named new Curators’ Distinguished Professors
Aug. 18, 2025
New Joy of Discovery sculpture images celebrate art in science
Aug. 12, 2025
Flu fighters: Mizzou researchers getting a closer look at immune response to influenza
July 16, 2025
Research steps: the movement behind making science work
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 to the activity within its walls when they emerge en masse during lunch breaks, fire drills or class changes. Matt Nelson, a senior engineering technician at Bond LSC, is a constant among these. He starts his day at 7:30…
May 21, 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 15, 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.
May 12, 2025
Bond LSC honors namesake in death
Christopher “Kit” Bond died Tuesday, May 13, 2025. We hold enormous gratitude to his efforts that contributed to our center’s creation. Bond LSC Director Walter Gassmann summed up our sentiments, writing “We mourn the passing of U.S. Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond and send condolences to his family and all who’ve been touched by his many years of service. Sen. Bond displayed an admirable commitment to investing in a better future through research. The most visible manifestation on campus of Senator Bond’s commitment to MU’s research excellence is what is now known as the Christopher S. Bond Life…
May 12, 2025
Bond LSC honors namesake in death
Kit Bond speaks to Thom Payne, vice chancellor for agriculture and dean of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, at the groundbreaking for the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center on September 8, 2001. Christopher “Kit” Bond died Tuesday, May 13, 2025. We hold enormous gratitude to his efforts that contributed to our center’s creation. Bond LSC Director Walter Gassmann summed up our sentiments, writing “We mourn the passing of U.S. Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond and send condolences to his family and all who’ve been touched by his many years of service. Sen. Bond displayed an admirable commitment…
April 28, 2025
The lab as a grad program’s proving ground
Video shot by Nick Andrussian | Mizzou Visual ProductionsPackage produced by Evan Johnson | Bond LSC As Mizzou seniors think about life after graduation, the research lab could serve as a proving ground for future plans. That was the case for Bennett Flannagan, who graduated from Mizzou in 2024. He spent the last year as a research specialist I in the Paul de Figueiredo lab at Bond LSC, pushing himself and growing his expertise in preparation for graduate school. His work paid off when he heard he was one of 20 applicants accepted into the Translational…