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One Health Microbiome Center
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The One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State University optimizes, accelerates, and disseminates long-lasting applications and knowledge on the microbiome. X: @psumbiome microbiome.psu.edu
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One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · Sep 15
Registration is now open! 🎉

Be part of the 2026 One Health Microbiome Center Symposium at Penn State (May 13–14). Explore microbiomes across health & ecosystems and connect with top researchers.

Sign up here:

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2026 One Health Microbiome Symposium
The 2026 One Health Microbiome Symposium will be hosted at Penn State University. Abstract submissions will open soon.
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Happy Holidays from the One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State! ❄️✨

Wishing you rest, joy, and curiosity this season.

- The One Health Microbiome Team
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Recently from @inschool4life.bsky.social & colleagues:

A new arXiv paper on a Sparse Bayesian partially identified model for sequence count data, improving differential analysis for microbiome and RNA-seq studies.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12040
Sparse Bayesian Partially Identified Models for Sequence Count Data
In genomics, differential abundance and expression analyses are complicated by the compositional nature of sequence count data, which reflect only relative-not absolute-abundances or expression levels...
arxiv.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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A big year for the One Health Microbiome Center 🦠🌍

Top-viewed Penn State News stories spotlighted OHMC research on:
• Gut microbiomes & chronic disease
• Nutrition & cardiometabolic health
• Food, agriculture & plant disease
• Microbial conservation & sustainability

www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...
The stories that defined 2025 for the One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State | Penn State University
From research to training programs and an international award, these are the stories that defined the past year for the One Health Microbiome Center.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Huge thanks to Curtis for spending some time with us here in Happy Valley - if you missed his talk, you can check it out here on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/andhyvSyt6c?...
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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We were honored to host Professor Thomas Bosch, senior research professor at @uni-kiel.de at the Penn State One Health Microbiome Center this week as the inaugural recipient of the Microbiome Medal.
Thomas Bosch and Seth Bordenstein pose with the microbiome medal, a bronze medallion in a rosewood box.
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Recently from Pak Kin Wong’s lab, AI-designed bacterial product “cocktails” show promise for strengthening and personalizing cancer immunotherapy. Using microbial products instead of live bacteria offers greater control and safety.

🔗 www.psu.edu/news/enginee...
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Recognizing microbiome center members Sarah Bordenstein, Alexis Palucki & @nazifatabassum.bsky.social — and other members who are part of the larger STREAMS consortium — for helping launch new reporting guidelines for microbiome research! 🧬🌍

Read here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology
This Consensus Statement presents the standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies (STREAMS) guidelines.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Recently from @fdiniandreote.bsky.social lab — new research finds that bee bread (the pollen-nectar mix that nourishes developing bees) maintains a consistent core microbiota, even across different regions and after miticide treatments. 🐝

Read the article: peerj.com/articles/20366
The bee bread of honey bees is characterized by a core microbiota despite the application of miticide treatments and variation across space and time
Background Bee bread is composed of a mixture of pollen and nectar used as the main source of proteins and lipids for the development of bee larvae. Despite its important role in honey bee food preser...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This morning we marked Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Day with experts from Penn State, Penn Medicine, PA DOH & QIAGEN. 🦠

Great insights on AMR across human, animal & environmental health — and why collaboration is key.

Thanks to everyone who joined us!
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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To close #GivingWeek, we’re celebrating the global impact of the One Health Microbiome Center. 🌍

• Collaborations in 100 countries
• 550+ members
• 2024 WH Pierce Global Impact in Microbiology Prize recipient

Support science that improves health worldwide.
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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This Giving Week, we’re celebrating the graduate trainees who are shaping the future of microbiome science at the #OHMC.

Your support powers interdisciplinary training, hands-on research, and the next generation of scientific leaders.

Give today: www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-a...
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This Giving Week, we’re celebrating OHMC’s amazing student clubs — DAWG, Macrobes for Microbes, and CATS.

They create hands-on learning, outreach, and collaboration across microbiome science.

Support their work: www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-a...
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Excited to be visiting @psumbiome.bsky.social on December 5 to give a lecture! Looking forward to engaging with students and faculty — see you there!
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World leader in AI and antibiotic discovery to deliver lecture at Penn State | Penn State University
César de la Fuente, Presidential Associate Professor and leader of the Machine Biology Group at University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 11 a.m. on Dec. 5 in Foster Auditorium in the Paterno Library ...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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💙 It’s Giving Tuesday!

Check out our new video highlighting the innovation and impact of the One Health Microbiome Center. Our community is advancing discoveries that improve health for people, agriculture, and the environment.

Consider the impact YOU can make.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/uL14gKx33ic?...
Advancing One Health Microbiome Research: Join Us in Making an Impact
YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State
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December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It’s Giving Week!

Today we’re highlighting The Wolbachia Project, an education initiative bringing real microbiome + biotech research into classrooms.

From 2022–2025, it’s partnered with ~400 teachers and ~20,000 students globally. 🌍

Help us grow this impact: www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-a...
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🧡 Happy Thanksgiving from the One Health Microbiome Center!

We’re grateful for our community of researchers, students, partners, and supporters who make our work possible. Thank you for all that you do.

Wishing you a safe, restful, and joyful holiday.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Giving Tuesday is one week away!

Watch our new video highlighting the impact and vision of the One Health Microbiome Center — and help us make a difference.

🎥 youtu.be/uL14gKx33ic?...

#GivingTuesday
Advancing One Health Microbiome Research: Join Us in Making an Impact
YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State
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November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Congrats to Auja Bywater, Food Science PhD candidate in
@kovaclab.bsky.social, on winning the 2025 PA Space Grant Fellowship! Her work uses biocontrol microbes to keep hydroponic systems safe from pathogens — even in space. 🔬🚀

🔗: www.psu.edu/news/student...
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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On behalf of the One Health Microbiome Center, we would like to congratulate Dr. Molly Bletz for being a one of four recipients of the Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Award.

Congratulations Molly!

Read more here: kaufman.pittsburghfoundation.org/kaufmanrelea...
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Huge thank you to QIAGEN and @iconpcr.bsky.social for partnering with us for the 2026 One Health Microbiome Symposium!

We’re grateful for your support.

Interested in joining them? Sponsorships are still open—let’s make this our strongest event yet.
huck.psu.edu/institutes-a...
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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In the past week, we saw TWO publications coming from
@jordanbisanz.bsky.social's lab! Read the thread below to hear about both.👇
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center is proud to introduce the Microbiome Medal, created to honor outstanding leadership in microbiome research, mentorship, and service.

We’re delighted to announce Dr. Thomas Bosch as the inaugural 2025 recipient.

www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...
Host-microbiome interaction biologist to receive inaugural Microbiome Medal | Penn State University
The One Health Microbiome Center will present the inaugural Microbiome Medal to Thomas Bosch on Dec 12. Bosch, a developmental biologist, zoologist and distinguished senior professor at Kiel Universit...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🧬New from @symbionticism.bsky.social's Lab:

The male-killing gene wmk in Wolbachia splits into 5 types with distinct genomic patterns. Variation in copy number and expression helps explain male-biased lethality across hosts.

Read more: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Evolutionary Diversification and Functions of the Candidate Male Killing Gene wmk
Abstract. Symbiont-mediated male killing (MK) is a mechanism that selectively eliminates male offspring, often by disrupting sex-specific developmental pro
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November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Happy to see our team’s work recognized on the Clarivate #HighlyCitedResearchers list. Having my name included reflects the dedication, creativity, and collaboration of so many colleagues. Grateful for this community.
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Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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New insight from @stl.bsky.social & team:

Many microbes in soil are just “sleeping,” and it’s the ones that wake up near plant roots that end up living inside the plant.

Using BONCAT labeling, researchers found root-interior microbes are about 10× more active than the ones outside.

🔗 Read more:
Novel technique reveals insights into soil microbe alarm clock | Penn State University
A novel technique developed by researchers at Penn State has revealed that activity matters more than abundancy for which soil microbes can help plants with nutrient uptake and disease resistance.
www.psu.edu
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM