From concept to marshaling the forces for readiness, nothing compares to a massive team of academics and industry partners designed to unsilo their field and set a new standard for microbiome science education and accreditation. Let us march forward the logistics and achievements as a field.

It was such a pleasure to speak about #biofilms and #Listeria monocytogenes in a session with Martin Wagner, Valentina Trinetta, Claudia Guldimann, and Pierluigi di Ciccio at #FEMS2025 in Milan!

Honored and thrilled to receive the ASM Early Career Environmental Research Award - made even more special by sharing this moment with my postdoc advisor Martin Wiedmann, who received the Environmental Research Award in the same year! #ASMmicrobe

Enjoying #ASMicrobe in LA!

Our PhD student Auja Bywater representing @psumbiome.bsky.social and Penn State at the FAO Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference in Rome @fao.org

Tyler Chandross-Cohen, a PhD student in our lab, is presenting his research at the European IAFP meeting in Madrid @iafp.bsky.social

Our latest study found that the presence of Pseudomonadaceae in multispecies biofilms promotes tolerance of #Listeria monocytogenes to #sanitizers and that biofilms can be effectively controlled with a biofilm remover: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages? psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...

It’s almost the end of the fall semester! 🥳 Today we paused for a second to celebrate the outstanding work of the Laboratory in Food Microbiology teaching team that worked tirelessly to help train food science students in microbiology 🧫🔬🧬

Our Center has been awarded the 2024 WH Pierce Global Impact in Microbiology Prize from Applied Microbiology International! 🌏 🏆 Thank you to our community members for your contributions and scholarship–spanning #research, #education, #art, and #outreach. Article -> science.psu.edu/news/one-hea...