LSU Research

@LSUResearch

Communicating the impact of LSU research around the world. #LSUResearch

Baton Rouge, La lsu.edu/research.php Joined April 2012

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Only about half of the students who begin college as STEM majors continue in the field. LSU experts saw a path to addressing this issue, with a first-year seminar course for college students interested in STEM, designed to build confidence and skills!

lsu.edu/blog/2026/04/r…

After a first-year seminar course on becoming a scientist was implemented at scale, student outcomes improved,

LSU Research @LSUResearch Apr 27

LSU College of Science’s Daniel Powell studies a small fish from central Mexico to explore how species form and stay separate—even when they live side by side in the wild. lsu.edu/science/news/s…

#fish #evolution #genetics

Mexican swordtail fish exhibit a wide range of colors, shapes, and even chemical cues—signals that help them attract the right partner.

LSU Research @LSUResearch Apr 27

Where DNA Becomes Art: Visualizing the Code That Connects All Living Things, a Q&A with LSU College of Art and Design's Courtney Barr! 🧬 lsu.edu/blog/2026/04/d…

Visualization of the DNA barcode of Pemberton's deer mouse, extinct 1931.

LSU Research @LSUResearch Apr 26

In a study of microplastics in ocean-floor sediments off the coast of Puerto Rico, Kam-biu Liu @LSU_CCE and others found:
🧃 microplastics in layers dating back to 1950
🧃 heavier microplastics in more recent layers
🧃 Hurricanes leave more deposits

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

LSU Research @LSUResearch Apr 25

Geaux National DNA Day! 🧬

Learn more about the history of DNA sequencing and how it has changed how we do science! lsu.edu/blog/2026/04/d…
#genetics #science #nationalDNAday

Quote: Cancer is a really complex disease. It’s like a diabolical symphony. Just one instrument doesn’t make the symphony… You have to put all the instruments together to make the sound of cancer.

Quote: I don't think researchers at the LSU Museum of Natural Sciences pioneering tissue preservation in the 1970s could even imagine that 40 to 50 years later, we would be sequencing whole genomes from those samples left and right.

Quote: It’s incredible to me, the level of personalized cancer care we can now do because we have the sequence of our entire DNA. We are in the golden age of genomics.

Quote: RNA is the message transcribed from your DNA. With single-cell RNA sequencing, we can now map out and know what types of cells are expressing what, which is pretty cool.