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Huck Institutes Seeks Director of Graduate Training Initiatives

The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is searching for a Penn State faculty member interested in overseeing a number of training programs for master's and doctoral students.

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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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Newly acquired Leica SP8 DIVE Multiphoton Microscope enables deep in vivo imaging

Penn State researchers will be able to perform experiments that could not be achieved before. This acquisition will promote research in areas such as neurobiology, cell biology, microbiology, plant physiology, animal sciences and medicine, and beyond.

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Biochemist Squire Booker, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Penn State's only Howard Hughes Investigator, studies how reactions catalyzed by radical SAM enzymes work. His lab uses the instrument shown here, an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer, to analyze iron-sulfur clusters on the enzymes. Disruptions in radical SAM enzymes can lead to serious health problems including Type II diabetes, congenital heart disease, ALS, and increased susceptibility to viral infection. IMAGE: PATRICK MANSELL

Sep 30, 2020

Mapping a trail of chemical reactions, Howard Hughes Investigator Squire Booker shows how one group of enzymes helps us stay healthy

According to a new study, coral's ability to respond to warming ocean temperatures may depend in part on the amount of iron in the environment.IMAGE: PENN STATE

Sep 30, 2020

Coral’s resilience to warming may depend on iron

How well corals respond to climate change could depend in part on the already scarce amount of iron available in their environment, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

aerial photo of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Sep 27, 2020

Public health preparedness master's students take on COVID-19-related projects

When COVID-19 gained pandemic status in the spring, students in health-related fields across the country saw topics from  their courses and training become a reality.

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Thursday Oct

CIDD Seminar: Of monarchs and malaria: tri-trophic interactions, virulence, and the evolution of drug resistance

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Friday Oct

Seminar: "Distilling 10 years of research into one hour: Gene, Genome, Behavior, and Physiology of Honey Bees"

Insect Biodiversity Center

Friday Oct

Quantifying the immediate response of the soil microbial community to different grazing intensities on irrigated pastures

Microbiome Center