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New Concepts for Defining and Characterizing the Bovine Microactome | Tim McAllister, PhD

Dr Tim McAllister, Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agi-Food Canada talked about his comprehensive tracking of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes across systems, risk assessment, and…

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Microbial Communities on Host Surfaces: Resource Dynamics & Disease Impact | Max Aleman, Penn State

PhD Student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Max Aleman, presented his research focused on diseased mushroom microbial biomarker, as well as how pathogen-induced changes in plant metabolite…

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Microbiome Analysis as a Surveillance Tool to Detect and Track Plant Pathogen Threats | Veronica Roman-Reyna, PhD

Dr. Roman-Reyna, who started the lab at Penn State in Fall 2023, introduced her research goals and experience, including her vast work with different metagenomic sequencing methods and analyses. A…

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Competition and Virulence in Pseudomonas syringae | Chad Fautt, PhD, Penn State

Dr Fautt presents his work in silico work including building an online platform for phylogenetic placement and virulence gene prediction, tailocin genes evolution and insight from protein folding,…

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The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics: From Local to Global Impact | Matthew Ferrari, PhD, PSU

Dr. Matt Ferrari gives an overview of the mission and works of the Penn State University Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD). He also talks about his exciting work modeling global measles…

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Bacteria 2 - Commensals, Opportunists, and Pathogens

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2023 Mini-Medical School Webinar

Zoom Recording ID: 99209726519 UUID: Nasb+fNzRtSuKVBCrR0lhA== Meeting Time: 2023-03-21 09:32:08pmGMT

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Impact of airway Prevotella spp on lung infection resilience | Sarah Clark, PhD, Univ. of Colorado

Full title: The species-specific impact of airway Prevotella on infection resilience in the lung. Dr. Sarah Clark, an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, talks…

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Expert Human Microbiome Scientist Q&A | The Invisible Extinction Film Screening Event

On March 2, 2023, the Microbiome Center hosted a community screening of The Invisible Extinction, followed by an expert scientist panel Q&A session. The event started with opening remarks from…

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Causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation | Federico Rey, PhD, UW-Madison

Dr. Federico Rey talks about gut microbiome diversity and the impact of microbial community differences. Penn State’s Microbiome Center optimizes, accelerates, and disseminates long-lasting…

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Metagenomics for the masses | David Roos, PhD & Daniel Beiting, PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Drs. David Roos and Daniel Beiting talk about the development of an open-access data-mining platform for interrogating microbiome experiments. Learn more here: https://veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app …

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Microbial cooperation during C. difficile infection | Joe Zackular, PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Dr. Joe Zackular talks about Clostridioides difficile, which is the most commonly reported nosocomial pathogen in the United States and an urgent public health threat worldwide. The primary risk…

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What is Precision Medicine?

Precision medicine aims to collect, connect, and apply vast amounts of data and information about our health to help guide more precise and predictive medicine worldwide. Learn more at…

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The Future of Early Cancer Detection? | Jorge Soto | TED Talks

Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer. Onstage at TEDGlobal 2014,…

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The Problem And Promise Of Precision Medicine | TIME

Direct YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/zkagtWSeisQ A recent announcement of massive funding toward precision medicine by President Obama administration is prompting a bearish sentiment among medical…

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The influence of Pseudomonas on the Agaricus bisporus fruiting body microbiome and the initiation of bacterial blotch disease

Max Aleman, a PhD candidate in Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, shares a current research project on the metagenome in mushroom blotch disease. Penn State’s Microbiome Center…

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