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Mining (meta)genomes to improve food safety #PrecisionFoodSafety @penn_state http://foodscience.psu.edu/research/labs/kovac

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From concept to marshaling the forces for readiness, nothing compares to a massive team of academics and industry partners designed to unsilo their field and set a new standard for microbiome science education and accreditation. Let us march forward the logistics and achievements as a field.

22.07.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was such a pleasure to speak about #biofilms and #Listeria monocytogenes in a session with Martin Wagner, Valentina Trinetta, Claudia Guldimann, and Pierluigi di Ciccio at #FEMS2025 in Milan!

17.07.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Honored and thrilled to receive the ASM Early Career Environmental Research Award - made even more special by sharing this moment with my postdoc advisor Martin Wiedmann, who received the Environmental Research Award in the same year! #ASMmicrobe

21.06.2025 04:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoying #ASMicrobe in LA!

21.06.2025 04:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our PhD student Auja Bywater representing @psumbiome.bsky.social and Penn State at the FAO Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference in Rome @fao.org

20.06.2025 20:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tyler Chandross-Cohen, a PhD student in our lab, is presenting his research at the European IAFP meeting in Madrid @iafp.bsky.social

08.05.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pseudomonadaceae increased the tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to sanitizers in multi-species biofilms The persistence of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes in food processing facilities may be facilitated by the formation of multi-species bi…

Our latest study found that the presence of Pseudomonadaceae in multispecies biofilms promotes tolerance of #Listeria monocytogenes to #sanitizers and that biofilms can be effectively controlled with a biofilm remover: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

08.12.2024 16:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advanced Professional APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

πŸ“’ Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages?

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03.12.2024 20:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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It’s almost the end of the fall semester! πŸ₯³ Today we paused for a second to celebrate the outstanding work of the Laboratory in Food Microbiology teaching team that worked tirelessly to help train food science students in microbiology πŸ§«πŸ”¬πŸ§¬

05.12.2024 03:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Center has been awarded the 2024 WH Pierce Global Impact in Microbiology Prize from Applied Microbiology International! 🌏 πŸ†

Thank you to our community members for your contributions and scholarship–spanning #research, #education, #art, and #outreach.
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14.11.2024 15:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1