Kevin Hockett
Huck Early Career Chair; Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology
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316 Buckhout Lab
University Park, PA 16802 - klh450@psu.edu
- 814-865-4472
Research Summary
Biological Control, Biology and Ecology of Plant-Microbe and Plant-Environment Interactions, Microbial Ecology and Population Biology Faculty
Huck Affiliations
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Ecology
- Microbiome Center
- Ecology Institute
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
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Publication Tags
Pseudomonas Syringae Bacteria Bacteriocins Bacteriophages Genes Sulfur Ascomycota Pseudomonas Fungi Symbiosis Temperature Proteins Genomics Bacterium Genome Virulence Endophytes Gene Expression Ecology Strain Mushrooms Dilution Pseudomonas Fluorescens Agar PlasmidsMost Recent Papers
First Report of Brown Spot on White Button Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) Caused by Cedecea neteri in Iran
Mozhde Hamidizade, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Hamzeh Mafakheri, Rachel A. Herschlag, Samuel J. Martins, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, Ebrahim Osdaghi, 2022, Plant Disease on p. 1291
Transcriptional Profiles of a Foliar Fungal Endophyte (Pestalotiopsis, Ascomycota) and Its Bacterial Symbiont (Luteibacter, Gammaproteobacteria) Reveal Sulfur Exchange and Growth Regulation during Early Phases of Symbiotic Interaction
Justin P. Shaffer, Morgan E. Carter, Joseph E. Spraker, Meara Clark, Brian A. Smith, Kevin L. Hockett, David A. Baltrus, A. Elizabeth Arnold, 2022, mSystems
Prophylactic Application of Tailocins Prevents Infection by Pseudomonas syringae
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark, Kevin L. Hockett, Madison Mollico, Caitlin Smith, Savannah Weaver, 2022, Phytopathology on p. 561-566
Genome Mining Shows Ubiquitous Presence and Extensive Diversity of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Pseudomonas syringae
Prem P. Kandel, Marina Naumova, Chad Fautt, Ravikumar R. Patel, Lindsay R. Triplett, Kevin L. Hockett, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
Prophylactic Application of Tailocins Prevents Infection by Pseudomonas syringae.
David Baltrus, Meara Clark, Kevin Hockett, Madison Mollico, Caitlin Smith, Savannah Weaver, 2021, Phytopathology
Pseudomonas syringae pv. Phaseolicola uses distinct modes of stationary-phase persistence to survive bacteriocin and streptomycin treatments
Ravikumar R. Patel, Prem P. Kandel, Eboni Traverso, Kevin L. Hockett, Lindsay R. Triplett, 2021, mBio
Not all Viruses are Bad: Controlling Mushroom Blotch Disease with Bacteriophages
Abdelmonim Ahmad, Kevin Hockett, C Bull, 2020, Mushroom News
Pseudomonas can survive tailocin killing via persistence-like and heterogenous resistance mechanisms
Prem P. Kandel, David A. Baltrus, Kevin L. Hockett, 2020, Journal of Bacteriology
Bacterial brown pit, a new disease of edible mushrooms caused by mycetocola sp.
Mozhde Hamidizade, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Samuel J. Martins, Rachel A. Herschlag, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, Ebrahim Osdaghi, 2020, Plant Disease on p. 1445-1454
Comparing approaches for capturing bacterial assemblages associated with symptomatic (Bacterial Blotch) and asymptomatic mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) caps
Samuel J. Martins, Ryan V. Trexler, Fabricio R. Vieira, John A. Pecchia, Prem P. Kandel, Kevin L. Hockett, Terrence H. Bell, Carolee T. Bull, 2020, Phytobiomes Journal on p. 90-99
Most-Cited Papers
The Inherent Conflicts in Developing Soil Microbial Inoculants
Laura M. Kaminsky, Ryan V. Trexler, Rondy J. Malik, Kevin L. Hockett, Terrence H. Bell, 2019, Trends in Biotechnology on p. 140-151
Thermo-Regulation of Genes Mediating Motility and Plant Interactions in Pseudomonas syringae
Kevin L. Hockett, Adrien Y. Burch, Steven E. Lindow, 2013, PLoS One on p. 12
Use of the soft-agar overlay technique to screen for bacterially produced inhibitory compounds
Kevin L. Hockett, David A. Baltrus, 2017, Journal of Visualized Experiments
Independent co-option of a tailed bacteriophage into a killing complex in Pseudomonas
Kevin L. Hockett, Tanya Renner, David A. Baltrus, 2015, mBio on p. 11
Isolation of endohyphal bacteria from foliar Ascomycota and In Vitro establishment of their symbiotic associations
Kayla R. Arendt, Kevin L. Hockett, Sarah J. Araldi-Brondolo, David A. Baltrus, A. Elizabeth Arnold, 2016, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 2943-2949
100 years since Tolaas
Ebrahim Osdaghi, Samuel J. Martins, Laura Ramos-Sepulveda, Fabrício Rocha Vieira, John A. Pecchia, David Meigs Beyer, Terrence H. Bell, Yinong Yang, Kevin L. Hockett, Carolee T. Bull, 2019, Plant Disease on p. 2714-2732
Pseudomonas syringae CC1557
Kevin L. Hockett, Marc T. Nishimura, Erick Karlsrud, Kevin Dougherty, David A. Baltrus, 2014, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 923-932
PA506, a conjugative plasmid of the plant epiphyte Pseudomonas fluorescens A506
Virginia O. Stockwell, Edward W. Davis, Alyssa Carey, Brenda T. Shaffer, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, Karl A. Hassan, Kevin Hockett, Linda S. Thomashow, Ian T. Paulsen, Joyce E. Lopera, 2013, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 5272-5282
Pseudomonas can survive tailocin killing via persistence-like and heterogenous resistance mechanisms
Prem P. Kandel, David A. Baltrus, Kevin L. Hockett, 2020, Journal of Bacteriology
Ecological genomics of pseudomonas syringae
David A. Baltrus, Tory A. Hendry, Kevin L. Hockett, 2014, on p. 59-77
News Articles Featuring Kevin Hockett
Jun 03, 2020
Huck graduate students among NSF award recipients
Five graduate students in Huck programs or involved with Huck centers, advised by faculty members in the College of Agricultural Sciences, were recipients or honorable mentions of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
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Apr 22, 2020
New decontamination protocol permits reuse of N95 respirators
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a shortage of personal protective equipment, including “N95” respirators, needed by frontline healthcare providers. A new protocol using aerosolized hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate N95 respirators could allow them to be safely reused in some hospital settings, where the disinfectant is already being used for other decontamination purposes.
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May 31, 2019
NIFA awards grant for microbial stress tolerance research
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded Kevin Hockett $453,000 to assist in research focusing on how microbes tolerate distinct stresses.
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