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Matt Ferrari named director of Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Matt Ferrari, who was closely involved with multiple aspects of University and community efforts to address COVID-19, has been tapped as the new head of CIDD.
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Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s $1.5M gift creates cell culture facility
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility, which will expand Penn State’s biotechnology ecosystem.
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Researchers identify evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2
By reconstructing the evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, an international research team of Chinese, European and U.S. scientists has discovered that the lineage that gave rise to the virus has been circulating in bats for decades and likely includes other viruses with the ability to infect humans.
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Apr 12, 2021
Physiology Graduate Student Wins Top Prize at Graduate Exhibition
Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee President Isabel da Silva was given top honors in the Health & Life Sciences category of the 2021 Graduate School Exhibition
Apr 08, 2021
Antibody binding-site conserved across COVID-19 virus variants
A tiny protein of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that gives rise to COVID-19, may have big implications for future treatments, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
Apr 08, 2021
New position will support graduate and post-graduate training
Donna Korzick, professor of physiology and kinesiology, recently assumed a new role as director of graduate training initiatives in the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. In this role, Korzick is dedicating half of her time to support the application for and execution of training grants from organizations like the National Institutes of Health.
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Apr 12, 2021
Physiology Graduate Student Wins Top Prize at Graduate Exhibition
Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee President Isabel da Silva was given top honors in the Health & Life Sciences category of the 2021 Graduate School Exhibition
Apr 08, 2021
Antibody binding-site conserved across COVID-19 virus variants
A tiny protein of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that gives rise to COVID-19, may have big implications for future treatments, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
Apr 08, 2021
New position will support graduate and post-graduate training
Donna Korzick, professor of physiology and kinesiology, recently assumed a new role as director of graduate training initiatives in the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. In this role, Korzick is dedicating half of her time to support the application for and execution of training grants from organizations like the National Institutes of Health.
Apr 08, 2021
Plant Biology alumna receives humanitarian award
Plant Biology graduate program alumna Amelia Henry has received the Graduate School Alumni Society Humanitarian Award. This award recognizes an alumnus/alumna holding a graduate degree from Penn State who has made a positive societal impact on the welfare of humankind beyond the responsibilities of one’s profession.
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Friday Apr
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Infectious burden, APOE-ϵ4, and risk for poor cognition
Microbiome Center
Friday Apr
16
CBBC Seminar | Ted Satterthwaite , M.D. "Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Psychopathology with Large-Scale Studies of Brain Development"
Center for Brain Behavior and Cognition
Monday Apr
19
Using Root Hair Growth To Probe The Wall Loosening Activity Of Expansins
Plant Biology
Events
Friday Apr
16
Infectious burden, APOE-ϵ4, and risk for poor cognition
Microbiome Center
Friday Apr
16
CBBC Seminar | Ted Satterthwaite , M.D. "Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Psychopathology with Large-Scale Studies of Brain Development"
Center for Brain Behavior and Cognition
Monday Apr
19
Using Root Hair Growth To Probe The Wall Loosening Activity Of Expansins
Plant Biology
Friday Apr
23
Genomes and microbiomes of traditional Himalayan populations
Microbiome Center