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Penn State Biology retweeted
💻 🍃 Bottom-up multiscale #modelling of guard cell walls reveals molecular mechanisms of stomatal biomechanics
by Hojae Yi and Charles Anderson @PennStateBio
buff.ly/b5TseC6 #PlantScience
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Anne Pallozzi, a second-year student majoring in biology, participated in the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
#PennStateBio
📸: Anne Pallozzi
ALT Anne Pallozzi posing with some team members at a poster session.
ALT Anne Pallozzi posing for a photo at the Botany of Nations exhibit.
ALT Anne Pallozziand her team posing for a group photo.
Penn State Biology retweeted
New research from Gui Becker's lab shows how frog skin bacteria may help protect against chytrid fungus, highlighting the microbiome’s role in host defense.
Read more: psu.edu/news/research/story/…
#Microbiome #Amphibians
Penn State Biology retweeted
Our 2026 Award recipients are featured in a new Penn State News story! 🎉
Read more about this year’s honorees and the work being recognized across the One Health Microbiome Center.
psu.edu/news/huck-institutes…
Penn State Biology retweeted
What happens when different microbiomes come together? 🦠
New research from @luana_bresciani, @GCcontent, and Francisco Dini-Andreote explores how microbial communities change when they mix.
Read more: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/…
Penn State Biology retweeted
The college is proud to recognize Taylor Smith, financial associate in the Department of Biology, with a "We Are!"
Smith's nominator wrote, "No matter how busy Taylor is, he’s always willing to help with a positive attitude, making him a valued member of the Biology community.”
Penn State Biology retweeted
Are you doing climate-related research? 🌎
The Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium is now accepting submissions for climate-related posters for its 2026 event.
Apply here before May 1: bit.ly/3QdK5RC
#PennStateScience
ALT Colin Howe presenting at the 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium.
Penn State Biology retweeted
Today, NSF announced it has made offers & will award 2,500 Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year to outstanding graduate students across the U.S. pursuing research-based degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. bit.ly/4cpAHBO
Penn State Biology retweeted
Please join us in congratulating OHMC faculty @JordanBisanz , Andrew Patterson, and @FDiniAndreote for being named to Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list!
Penn State Biology retweeted
Join Penn State Global for the 2025 Global Sustainability Action Weekend 🌎 Nov. 1–2! Hear from plenary speaker Dr. Mark Brennan + enjoy talks & activities on the 5 pillars of sustainability.
📍HUB-Robeson & Business Bldg Atrium
🔗 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Penn State Biology retweeted
The teams are developing approaches to answer questions or solve challenges under the Huck Institutes’ seven strategic research themes.
Read more about their projects at bit.ly/498fcoQ
#PennStateBio #PennStateBMB
ALT Huck Life Sciences building on Penn State's University Park campus.
Penn State Biology retweeted
📢 Meet the newest faculty member and academic affiliate professor of @PSUmBiome @PennStateBio. Welcome Ashley Shade back to central Pennsylvania and the Disney World of the Life Sciences! Ashley has long championed the global importance of microbiome science.
Penn State Biology retweeted
🚨 Registration is OPEN! 🚨
Join us May 13–14, 2026 at Penn State for the One Health Microbiome Center Symposium. Two days of cutting-edge science + networking on human, animal, and environmental microbiomes.
🔗 Register now: eventbrite.com/e/2026-one-he…
Penn State Biology retweeted
The genetic underpinnings of convergent evolution - bumble bee color patterns are excellent materials - By Heather Hines 🐝 from @PennStateBio
#PASEDB2025 #bumble #convergentevolution
Penn State Biology retweeted
A few of them participated in a Q&A about how @PSUmBiome is leading the charge to breakdown traditional disciplinary silos and expand the One Health focus to include more than just pathogenic microbial threats.
Read it at bit.ly/46kjo3y
#PennStateBio #PennStateScience
ALT Erika Ganda and Seth Bordenstein holding up agar plates at the camera.
Penn State Biology retweeted
🐸💧 New from @Becker_Lab @PennState: Drought reshapes amphibian behavior, skin microbiomes, & disease risk.
In pumpkin toadlets, less rain = lower fungal loads but disrupted microbiomes & more time in wet spots.
Full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Penn State Biology retweeted
We also just released our most recent project "Nuclear Mitochondrial Sequences in Great Ape Telomere-to-Telomere Genomes" in bioRXiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.24.6…. A collaboration with Marzia Cremona, Jessica Storer, Mario Ventura, Rachel O'Neill, and @MakovaLab!
Penn State Biology retweeted
I recently defended my PhD on "Mitochondrial DNA evolution alongside nuclear DNA".
Finishing my time at #PennState (@MakovaLab @PennStateBio @huckinstitutes @PSUScience),
as I transition to the #TwinCities (@mitoPR @A_A_Zaidi @UMNAnthropology @umnmedschool @UMNPsych)!
Penn State Biology retweeted
New details about the genome sequences of six ape species have been revealed by a team of researchers, including our own Kateryna Makova, Verne M. Willaman Chair of Life Sciences and professor of biology, and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology.
Penn State Biology retweeted
#CIDDSeminar April 31, 2025, Megan Stanifer, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine will present key antiviral cytokines in controlling intestinal barrier formation and protection from enteric viruses.
