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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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Large-data Driven Bioinformatics Algorithms To Pathogen Biomarker Discovery | Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, PhD

Dr. Georgakopoulos-Soares is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University. the Georgakopoulos-Soares lab uses bioinformatic and genomics approaches across…

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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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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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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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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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Connecting...the microbiome using Proximity Ligation Technology | Ivan Liachko, PhD, Phase Genomics

Full talk title: "Connecting the virome, plasmidome, and resistome to the microbiome using Proximity Ligation Technology" Dr. Ivan Liachko the founder and CEO of Phase Genomics…

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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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Metaproteomic profiling of microbial communities in mushroom cultivation | Eion Connor, PhD, Penn State

Dr. Eion Connor talk about his work focused on metaproteomic profiling of passaged microbial communities in Agaricus bisporus cultivation. Penn State’s Microbiome Center optimizes,…

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Metatranscriptomics; Ready for Prime Time? | Greg Gloor, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Metatranscriptomics presents a wickedly hard problem when analyzed by high throughput sequencing because of the many moving parts: the abundance and occurrence of different species can vary along…

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Fluid Transport in Earth's Mantle: Insights into the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (MC REU 2022)

*CAPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE!*The organic and inorganic cycling of volatiles both drive and reflect plate tectonics, the paradigm whereby Earth’s outer brittle shell is made of rigid units that…

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2022 JAN 14 A continental scale assessment of agricultural soil microbiomes

Elizabeth Rieke, Soil Health Institute

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2021 SEPT 03 Wei Wei and Ali Ghazvinian

Wei Wei, Penn State; Ali Ghazvinian, Penn State

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Mineralogical Characterization of Lithospheric Mantle Xenoliths from Katwe-Kikorongo, Uganda

*Captions are available!*Plate tectonics has shaped the face of the Earth throughout its history. Continental rifting and assembly drive the formation of oceans and the configuration of continents on…

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2019 DEC 13 From Neanderthals to artic ice: what ancient microbial communities can tell us

Laura Weyrich, Penn State

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