Kovac Lab
@kovaclab.bsky.social
Mining (meta)genomes to improve food safety #PrecisionFoodSafety @penn_state http://foodscience.psu.edu/research/labs/kovac
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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.
🎉 We’re launching BIOMS! The One Health Microbiome Center just received a $2.6M NIH T32 grant to train the next generation of microbiome scientists across human, environmental, and agricultural microbiome research.
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$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State | Penn State University
The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support ...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
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
June 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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
Our PhD student Auja Bywater representing @psumbiome.bsky.social and Penn State at the FAO Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference in Rome @fao.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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
May 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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...
Pseudomonadaceae increased the tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to sanitizers in multi-species biofilms
The persistence of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes in food processing facilities may be facilitated by the formation of multi-species bi…
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December 8, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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...
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📢 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?
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Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advanced Professional
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December 3, 2024 at 8:07 PM
📢 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?
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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 🧫🔬🧬
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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 🧫🔬🧬
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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.
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Thank you to our community members for your contributions and scholarship–spanning #research, #education, #art, and #outreach.
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November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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.
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Thank you to our community members for your contributions and scholarship–spanning #research, #education, #art, and #outreach.
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