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Microbial Guardians: How Microbiota Shape the Fate of Listeria in Food Processing | Jasna Kovac, PhD

Full title: Microbial Guardians: How Microbiota Shape the Fate of Listeria monocytogenes in Food Processing Environments. Dr. Jasna Kovac, Penn State associate professor of food sciences and…

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Genomics of Host-Microbiome Interactions | Ran Blekhman, PhD (University of Chicago)

Dr. Ran Blekhman is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago. The Blekhman Lab studies host-microbiome interactions, focusing on host genetic control of the microbiome. They use…

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Microbiome Sampling Across Scales: The Rhizosphere Perspective | Suzanne Fleishman, PhD

Dr. Fleishman is an Assistant Professor of Root Biology at Penn State University. The Fleishman Root Agroecology Lab seeks to understand the relationship between root physiology and soil…

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Materials-Enabled Strategies for Studying and Manipulating the Gut Microbiome | Scott Medina, PhD, Penn State

Dr. Scott Medina shared his work on developing a synthetic mucus for improving microbiome research models and hydrogel capsules for delivering live beneficial microbes. The One Health Microbiome…

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Characterizing bacterial genes with large-scale genetics | Adam Deutschbauer, PhD, LBNL

Dr. Deutschbauer talks about the he approaches and tools he uses for microbial functional genomics, including Barseq, with a focus on RB-TnSeq and over-expression experiments. The One Health…

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The unseen carbon cycle: Amines to an end | Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University

Dr. Kelly Wrighton take us on a methylated amines journey, from discussing her research on using microbiomes to predict atherosclerotic disease in humans to understanding how microbe could constrain…

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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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Dissecting Host-Microbiome Spatial Structure and Function | Emmanuel Edem Adade, SUNY Albany

Emmanuel Edem Adade, a PhD Candidate at SUNY Albany, presented his groundbreaking work on visualizing bacterial synthetic communities in a zebrafish model system. Emmanuel's work included using…

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Getting to the Root of Host-Microbiome Interactions | Cara Haney, PhD, University of Pittsburg

Dr. Cara Haney presents her cutting-edge research focused on understanding how host plants determine which bacteria are friends and which are foes using a model plant system and diverse strains of…

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The Social Microbiome: Anthropology, Microbes & Cross-disciplinary Collab | Amber Benezra, PhD

Dr. Amber Benezra is a sociocultural anthropologist researching how studies of the human microbiome intersect with biomedical ethics, public health/technological infrastructures and care. In…

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Beyond Normalizations: Incorporating Scale Uncertainty in ALDEx2 | Michelle Nixon, PhD, Penn State

Dr. Michelle Nixon a member of Dr. Justin Silverman's lab at Penn State University demonstrates how to incorporate scale uncertainty when transforming your microbiome read count data, using…

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Heterotroph/Phototroph Interactions and Community Assembly in Biocrust Microbiomes | Ferran Garcia-Pichel, PhD, Arizona State Univ.

Dr. Garcia-Pichel speaks about his research on biocrusts and restoration efforts, include his discovery of a predatory bacterium that can kill cyanobacteria – the primary component of…

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Host-Microbe Interactions in the Anthropocene | Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, PhD, Université de Sherbrooke

Dr. Laforest-Lapointe presents her work on plant and human microbial ecology, with a focus on spatial dynamics and microbiome assembly in early life. The One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State…

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Leveraging Fermented Food Microbiomes for Sustainable Food Production | Josephine Wee, PhD, Penn State

Dr. Josephine Wee talks about various projects focused on understand sour dough bread microbiomes and how they can be leveraged to improve the quality and shelf life of bread, as well as potentially…

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