Author: Tian Qiu

We gathered for Yasuaki’s farewell party, as he is leaving MSU next week and returning to his home institute, Kitasato University in Japan, after two years of visiting scholar term with us. I felt super lucky to have Yasuaki as a founding member of Qiu lab and spearheading our C. elegans-microbe research. Thank you so much for staying with us! Best wishes, and looking forward to keeping collaborating with you!

New preprint is out on Yasuaki’s work on C. elegans-B. subtilis interactions!

Saitoh, Y., Qiu, T.A. (2025). Dynamics of biofilm-forming Bacillus subtilis in Caenorhabditis elegans gut. Preprint on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.26.634914. Submitted.

Qiu Lab had our traditional winter party in Autumn’s house! Thank you everyone (and their significant ones) for another wonderful year. Looking forward to another great year!

Wonderful job, Kira, for giving a great second-year literature seminar!

Congratulations to Jasmin, our new PhD candidate!

Autumn spent a week in California to attend the 38th ASMS Asilomar Conference on New Frontiers in Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry from Applications to Instrumentation and the Stanford University Mass Spectrometry’s 2024 Research Applications Symposium (SUMS-RAS 2024).

Another year of MUACC! This time we joined the MUACC held at Wayne State University. Aidan, Einar and Jacob presented posters and Autumn gave a chalk talk.

Autumn organized an symposium, “Analytical Advancements for Emerging Contaminants” at ACS Fall 2024 in Denver, CO. Thanks to all invited and contributed speakers, and Bruker’s sponsorship for the speaker’s dinner and travel funds for junior academics!

Congrats to Einar in passing his comprehensive exam! Another PhD candidate!

Autumn and Yasuaki attended the Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, and Stress in C. elegans (MAPSS) conference in Madison, WI in June 20-23, 2024. Autumn gave an oral presentation on mass spectrometry imaging on C. elegans, and Yasuaki presented a poster.