Research Highlights
MSU researchers from diverse disciplines take advantage of iCER’s services to accomplish amazing things. iCER’s mission is to assist computational research by providing easy-to-use high performance computing platforms, we allow faculty and students to better focus on their research. Our systems enable larger, broader and more complex computation than ever before– work that could have taken months or years now can be done in hours or days.
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Leveraging the resilience of microbial communities to...
Microbial communities (or microbiomes) contain discrete populations of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses that interact both with each other and with their local environment. ...
Re-engineering software to enhance performance on HPC...
Dr. Metin Aktulga is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University.
Building High-resolution Protein Models to Fight COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan State University researchers are rising to the occasion and spearheading projects that seek to aid the international efforts to develop treatments for the...
Understanding Protein Interactions to develop COVID-19...
Dr. Alex Dickson is an assistant professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
MSU Researchers Push Frontier in Precision Calculations
As science peers deeper and deeper into the world around us, the subatomic scale presents new challenges, and the need for precision becomes ever more apparent.
Drug Repositioning In Search Of COVID-19 Treatments
Dr. Guowei Wei is an MSU foundation professor in the Department of Mathematics with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Electrical & Computer...
MSU IceCube Neutrino Observatory Group – Tyce DeYoung
Associate Professor Tyce DeYoung, from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, conducts research in particle astrophysics – the observation of high energy particles...
Identifying small molecule drugs to modulate the biological...
Dr. Bin Chen works in the Departments of Pediatrics & Human Development and Pharmacology & Toxicology at Michigan State University.
Modeling and Simulating Plasma
Dr. Andrew Christlieb’s research focuses on modeling and simulating materials in extreme states. The large range of temporal and spatial scales that need to be resolved in order to accurately...
Identifying small molecule drugs to modulate the biological...
Dr. Bin Chen works in the Departments of Pediatrics & Human Development and Pharmacology & Toxicology at Michigan State University. His lab has been using big data and artificial...
Identifying Bacteria in Biological Samples by their Genomes
For more than a year and a half, Dr. Matthew Scholz was a Research Specialist with Michigan State University’s BiCEP team.
Combining the Best of Blockchain and Cloud Computing
If you ask Nick Ivanov about his research, he might tell you that he is creating an anti-corruption machine in response to the inequity and unfairness he has seen in the world around him. Ivanov,...
Nuclear Pasta Reveals the Mystery Inside Neutron Stars
Researcher Bastian Schütrumpf recently worked with Michigan State University’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (iCER) to simulate nuclear pasta, a unique phase of nuclear matter formed inside...