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Among those attending the Emerging Animal Infectious Disease Conference at Penn State were, front row, from left, Kevin Brightbill, state veterinarian and director of the Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services; Rick Roush, dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences; Jennifer Lester Moffitt, undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Deanna Behring, assistant dean and director of international programs, College of Agricultural Sciences. Second row, from left, Ruth Nissly, research technologist, Penn State’s Animal Diagnostic Lab; Ty Butler, administrative support coordinator, Ag Sciences Global; Sandeep Prabhu, head of the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Blair Siegfried, associate dean for research and graduate education and director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station; Dave Swartz, Penn State Extension assistant director for animal systems programs; Andrew Read, Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology and the director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local/regional food systems; Vivek Kapur, professor of microbiology and infectious diseases; and Suresh Kuchipudi, professor, Huck chair in emerging infectious diseases and associate director of the Animal Diagnostic Laboratory. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

April 07, 2022

Preventing, controlling spread of animal diseases focus of forum at Penn State
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April 06, 2022

First round of funded projects announced from the Benkovic Research Initiative
A new study shows that mutation frequencies in mitochondrial DNA are lower, and increase less with age, in the precursors of egg cells than in the cells of other tissues in a primate. Mitochondrial DNA was sequenced in liver, skeletal muscle, and single oocyte samples from 1- to 23-year-old rhesus macaques. New mutations increased with age the fastest in liver, and the slowest in oocytes. Mutation frequency in oocytes increased only until the age of 9 years. The light-strand origin of replication (OriL), the region responsible for copying the mitochondrial genomes, was found to be a hotspot of mutation accumulation with aging in liver. Credit: Barbara Arbeithuber. All Rights Reserved.

April 04, 2022

Are egg cells in aging primates protected from mutations?

April 04, 2022

Are egg cells in aging primates protected from mutations?

April 03, 2022

Into The Wild: Animals the Latest Frontier in COVID Fight

April 01, 2022

Microgreens are tiny, tasty and packed with nutrients; How to grow them indoors, year-round

March 31, 2022

What Else Could Covid Inflict on Us? Ask Australian Rabbits

March 25, 2022

Experts fear U.S. won’t see next COVID surge coming

March 23, 2022

Omicron subvariant BA.2: Is COVID-19 surge in Europe coming to US?

March 23, 2022

Is the latest COVID-19 surge in Europe coming to the U.S.?

March 21, 2022

The Fight to Save the Embattled Monarch Butterfly
SROP students practicing team leadership

March 20, 2022

2022 Summer Research Opportunities Program is Seeking Faculty Mentors
Students from David Geiser’s lab in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology visited the Nittany Lion Shrine in July 2019. From left, back row, are Benedicta Swalarsk-Parry and Shawn Chang. In the middle row are Jane Ramaswe, Terry Torres Cruz, Emma Wallace and David Geiser. In front are Daniela Chacon and Chyanna McGee. Ramaswe and Swalarsk-Parry were part of a student exchange program with the University of Pretoria’s Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology. Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 18, 2022

Alliance between College of Ag Sciences, University of Pretoria yields benefits
The Changing Microbiomes Symposium will bring together researchers working at the bleeding edge of the transition to functional and process-driven microbiome research. These discoveries transcend systems; therefore, the symposium will span terrestrial and aquatic contexts and host-associated and free-living microbial communities. Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 18, 2022

Microbiome Center to host ‘Changing Microbiomes’ symposium in early June

March 18, 2022

How will we know the COVID pandemic is over? And how do we get there?
Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission

March 17, 2022

Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

March 16, 2022

Huck Students Receive Alumni Awards

March 15, 2022

Rise in COVID cases abroad, presence of omicron subvariant may foreshadow increase in US: Experts

March 15, 2022

Rise in COVID-19 infections overseas may foreshadow increase in US, experts say
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March 14, 2022

New art installation reflects Penn State research on energy and environment

March 13, 2022

How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?
New study of the relationships among members of the largest subfamily of grasses reveals gene-duplication events (represented by colored boxes) that contributed to the adaptation of the plants to cooler temperatures. Credit: Lin Zhang. All Rights Reserved.

March 10, 2022

How grasses like wheat can grow in the cold

March 09, 2022

EPA Expected to Extend Use of Bee-Killing Pesticides

March 09, 2022

How Carnivorous Plants Evolved