Question: What state is the Microbial Sciences Initiative run in?
Context: The Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.  Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is an autonomous, grant-in-aid research institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.  It was established in 1946 by the Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science as MACS Research Institute and renamed as ARI in 1992 in honour and memory of its founder Director, late Professor Shankar Purushottam Agharkar.  It conducts research activities in animal sciences, microbial sciences and plant sciences. Niyaz Ahmed is a professor of microbial sciences, genomicist, and a veterinarian by training, based in Dhaka and Hyderabad. Roberto Kolter is past president of the American Society for Microbiology, an author, and professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School.  Kolter has been at Harvard Medical School since 1983 and has been Co-director of Harvard's university-wide Microbial Sciences Initiative since 2003.  In 2016, Kolter became co-blogger (with Moselio Schaechter) of the popular microbiology blog, "Small Things Considered".  He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Microbiology. Burrows Glacier ( ) is a hanging glacier on the south wall of Garwood Valley and opposite the Garwood Glacier in the Denton Hills.  The glacier provides the water and nutrients for the existence of the Nostoc beds below.  Named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 2002 after Emeritus Professor Colin Burrows, sometime teacher in the Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury. List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Animal, nutritional and applied microbial sciences) Industrial microbiology is a branch of biotechnology that applies microbial sciences and industries together.  It uses microorganisms to produce a desired product in mass quantities in order to make a profit out of it.  There are multiple ways to manipulate a microorganism in order to increase maximum yield of product.  Introduction of mutations into an organism many be accomplished by introducing them to mutagens.  Another way to increase production is by gene amplification, this is done by the use of plasmids, and vectors.  The plasmids and/ or vectors are used to incorporate multiple copies of a specific gene that would allow more enzymes to be produced that eventually cause more product yield.  The manipulation of organisms in order to yield a specific product has many applications to the real world like the production of some antibiotics, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, solvents, alcohol and daily products.  They can also be used in an agricultural application and use them as a biopesticede instead of using dangerous chemicals or as inoculants and help plant proliferation. Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the US state of Massachusetts, and the most populous city in New England, as well as its surrounding areas.  The region forms the northern arc of the US northeast megalopolis and as such, Greater Boston can be described as either a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), or as a broader combined statistical area (CSA).  The MSA consists of most of the eastern third of Massachusetts, excluding the South Coast region and Cape Cod; while the CSA additionally includes the municipalities of Manchester (the largest city in the US state of New Hampshire), Providence (the capital and largest city of the US state of Rhode Island), Worcester, Massachusetts (the second largest city in New England), as well as the South Coast region and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization at Harvard University that brings together and develops programs for faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows and others working across many Harvard Departments and other institutions in the greater Boston area - all working in one or more of the many fields of study that intersect with microbes and microbial activities.  The mission of the MSI is to seek a "comprehensive understanding of the richest biological reservoir of the planet, the microbial world."  More than 100 Harvard faculty associates are active members of the MSI community. List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Plant, soil, and microbial sciences) The Department of Plant & Microbial Biology is an academic department in the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.  The department conducts extensive research, provides undergraduate and graduate programs, and educates students in the fields of plant and microbial sciences with 43 department faculty members.
Answer: Massachusetts