Penn State Professor of Food Microbiology, Director of @PSU_EcoliRefCtr, prefer feet off the ground @microbeinflight.

State College, PA
Joined July 2015
Visiting @BrownsFoodCo outside of Nairobi and getting a flight of wonderful cheeses they are making.
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Foodborne pathogen risks, zoonotic diseases, climate change and molecular biology training are the focus of a new international partnership involving two @PSUmBiome investigators @microdudley & @Erika__Ganda and @MeruUniversity. Big science for big problems and solutions ⤵️
New partnership will address health and food safety challenges in Kenya psu.edu/news/agricultural-sc…
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“A range of entities including…academic organizations operate objects at these altitudes” Great, we just shot down some 4th year Ph.D students thesis project. Objects shot down in Alaska, Canada less advanced than Chinese balloon - The Washington Post apple.news/AhwAFsLbdQZaWT1xF…
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We @plantvillage bet on young people to develop & test the innovations needed to feed a world of 10 billion under climate change. And capture/store 1 billion tonnes carbon on smallholder farms. We are now in 9 countries reaching 14 million farmers/week. What does that look like?
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Indigo Ag creates fellowship to further efforts of Penn State Microbiome Center psu.ag/3FG5YzT
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Multi-drug resistant E. coli displace commensal E. coli from the intestinal tract, a trait associated with elevated levels of ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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#WeArePSUmBiome is a new series that celebrates the exceptional people of the Center and the collaborative spirit we bring to “making life better” at the Center each day. This week we feature Taejung Chung – PhD candidate and Director of DAWG @kovac_lab #ECR #FoodSafety
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We used machine learning to segment stomatal guard cells from 3D confocal data and learned new things about stomatal biomechanics! Great collab with Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, @ChenYintong, @leilaJfr, Rayna Marshall, Angelica Dunham, and James Z. Wang! cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S…
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Did you think I was done spamming you about jobs in my department? I am NOT! See below and apply by Monday for full consideration. ✨
We are also hiring in #PublicHealth #Nutrition! @ColoradoStateU seeking applicants w expertise in behavioral sciences @ individual, population, policy, systems or environmental levels as it relates to nutrition, health promotion and disease prevention. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/…
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Edward Dudley retweeted
Yezhi Fu and @microdudley highlighting how important #OneHeath is in pathogen surveillance. Birds are reservoirs for salmonella! #asmngs
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Edward Dudley retweeted
Stop by Laura Carroll's poster at the #ASMNGS today 5-7 PM. She'd be happy to chat about #Bacillus cereus group strains isolated in conjunction with 2020 welder #anthrax cases in the US! #NGS #microbiology
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Edward Dudley retweeted
For the second part of our opening session, we’re excited to welcome White House Senior Policy Advisor on Global COVID-19 Response @NahidBhadelia46! asm.social/QR #ASMNGS #nextgenerationsequencing #NGS #COVID19
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View from the meeting room at the microbial sciences building at University of Wisconsin Madison we are hiring Assistant Professors in parasite-host and bacteria-host interactions in the MMI ⁦@UWMadisonMMI⁩ department. Come join a very collaborative dept
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What over 10,000 E. coli in a rental car looks like. Thanks to the Foxman lab @umichsph for helping our collection grow to over 95,000 isolates @agsciences
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One mission of @PSU_EcoliRefCtr is the rescue of E. coli collections in danger of being lost as faculty retire or otherwise move on. Headed to the Midwest shortly for two such collections, one lab also has a large group B Strep collection looking for a home. Ideas or interest?
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Edward Dudley retweeted
Factors other than AMR contributed to pathogen success over the antibiotic era. We used temporal GWAS to identify these, including a widely distributed novel adhesin. Check out @RJBennett33’s epic work here to find out more bit.ly/3KtltgK 1/10
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🚨 Georgetown Biology is recruiting a new assistant professor of Microbiology! 🔬 🧫 🦠 Apply at apply.interfolio.com/112380 Review of applications begins on November 1st. 🚨 Please RT! @GUBiology @Georgetown @GUProvostOffice @GeorgetownColl @GUmedcenter
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What a dynamite community @PSUmBiome! The best part today was seeing everyone together - the smiles, claps, and joy in the room. We're recruiting graduate students this year who can opt to commence a Dual Title Degree in the Microbiome Sciences. Check us out!
New @PSUmBiome Director @Symbionticism introduced himself to members of the center today and laid out his ambitious vision for microbiome research at Penn State:
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