Kovac Lab
kovaclab.bsky.social
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.
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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!
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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
Enjoying #ASMicrobe in LA!
June 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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
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
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
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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
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
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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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November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM