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June

June 2024 Maintenance

 Maintenance

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.

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MSI Researcher Receives Grant for Equine Pangenome and Pantranscriptome Graphs

 Awards Genetics Veterinary Medicine

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Extended June MSI Maintenance – June 5-7, 2024

 Maintenance

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 to be 2025-26 Endocrine Society President

 Awards

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

Fixes to R Library Issues

 Maintenance Update

Due to recent changes to the computing environment around the move to Rocky Linux 8, MSI has been having difficulty providing a stable set of R modules for use on our systems.

UMN Single Cell Symposium 2024

The field of single-cell genomics has progressed rapidly over the last 10 years and has changed the way we ask and answer biological questions.

IIB Breakfast Meeting

All are invited to attend the International Institute for Biosensing Breakfast Meeting.

Soil

Soil Nutrient Management and the Soil Microbiome

Diseases caused by plant pathogens reduce the global food crop by 40% annually.

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Improving Support for Caregivers

More than 30 million Americans provide unpaid care for a loved one as a caregiver.

Computational Modeling to Determine Effects of Climate Change Mitigation

As the largest terrestrial carbon pool, global soils provide great opportunity for climate change mitigation by transforming atmospheric CO2 as soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks.

Improving Convex Optimization

Convex optimization is an indispensable modeling and computational tool for all science and engineering fields.

Improving Crops Using High-Throughput Phenotyping

Breeding climate-resilient crops and developing targeted management practices are imperative to strengthening global food security.

Genomics and the Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly, progressive fibrotic lung disease.

A Pipeline for Functionally Annotating Pangenomes

How an individual’s genetic background influences different traits - for example, coat color, disease risk, etc.