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📢 Join us tomorrow for our Biology Seminar! ❄️ Prof. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak (University of Warsaw) will discuss a novel method for identifying short-term climate change using human tooth enamel. 📅 Tuesday, October 20 🕛 12 PM 📍 Room 8 Müller Lab
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🦠🌎 Interested in microbial ecology, bioinformatics, and spatial analysis? Explore Microbial Macroecology: Methods & Applications (BIOL 597), a graduate course combining microbiome datasets, GIS, and ecological theory to investigate large-scale microbial patterns.
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in silico Plants
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💻 🍃 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
Anne Pallozzi posing with some team members at a poster session.

ALT Anne Pallozzi posing with some team members at a poster session.

Anne Pallozzi posing for a photo at the Botany of Nations exhibit.

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Anne Pallozziand her team posing for a group photo.

ALT Anne Pallozziand her team posing for a group photo.

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No BioGSA student seminar tomorrow, but coffee and cookies are still on! ☕🍪 Join us Tuesday, October 13, from 11 AM–12 PM in 317 Müller Lab to grab a treat and catch up with the Biology community!
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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

Frog's coat of bacterial armor helps protect it from fungal disease | Penn State University

The bacteria living on frogs’ skin could serve a vital role in protecting the animal from a deadly fungal disease. A team of researchers led by Penn State scientists found that frogs’ natural skin...

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Exciting to see Penn State Biology research featured in Popular Science! 🐸🦠 The story highlights new work from the Becker Lab on how skin bacteria can help protect frogs from fungal disease. Read the feature: popsci.com/environment/frog-…

Frogs wear bacterial suits of armor to fight off deadly fungus

Chytridiomycosis has driven at least 90 frog species into extinction.

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Join us tomorrow for our Biology Seminar Come a little early to chat and enjoy coffee and cookies 🎙️ Speaker: Jesse Lasky, Professor, Penn State 🌿 Title: Environmental adaptation in plant populations 🕛 Time: 12:00–1:00 PM 📍 Location: 8 Müller Lab We hope to see you there!
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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…

One Health Microbiome Center announces 2026 award recipients | Penn State University

The One Health Microbiome Center recognized five Penn State researchers and trainees with its 2026 awards for contributions to microbiome science, leadership, community engagement, creativity,...

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Join us tomorrow for our first Biology Seminar of the semester! 🎉 Come a little early to chat with colleagues and enjoy some coffee and cookies before the seminar. ☕🍪 We hope to see you there!
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Our seminars will start next Tuesday! More details on Monday. We are excited to see you all again
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📅 Save the date, Biology community! Our Biology Seminars are back this semester: 🗓️ Tuesdays ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Mueller Room 8 We’ll share reminders and seminar details here and by email each week. Here’s our schedule so far — mark your calendars! 👇
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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/…

Microbial community coalescence restructures co-occurrence architecture and generates regime-spec...

Abstract. Microbial community coalescence (MCC), the mixing of distinct microbiomes, is increasingly recognized as an important process in natural and mana

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Dear Biology Community! 🧬🌿 Have you been enjoying our new summer fieldwork highlights? We’d love to share your stories too!
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If you’ve been doing fieldwork, lab work, or other exciting research that we could highlight on the Department of Biology’s social media, please comment here or reach out to us. We’d love to feature what our Biology community has been working on! 🐸🔬🌱
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Fieldwork Highlight: From 4 AM starts to 50-lb backpacks, this team headed deep into California’s Sierra Nevada to uncover the hidden history of an amphibian pathogen. 🏔️🐸 Their destination? Backcountry lakes in Yosemite National Park and Sierra National Forest. 1/6
📸 A critically endangered Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog on the shore of an alpine lake at the base of Mt. Humphreys in Sierra National Forest. Photo: Anton Sorokin @Anuranton

ALT 📸 A critically endangered Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog on the shore of an alpine lake at the base of Mt. Humphreys in Sierra National Forest. Photo: Anton Sorokin @Anuranton

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Why go to all that trouble? Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a fungal pathogen linked to more amphibian extinctions than any other known infectious disease. But much of its early spread happened before scientists detected it. 5/6
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These sediment records may help reveal when Bd arrived, how it spread, and how amphibian communities changed through time. A huge field effort made possible by an incredible research team! 🐸🧬🏔️ 📸 All photos by Anton Sorokin @Anuranton 6/6
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