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Q&A: Tips to protect against ticks
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and Pennsylvania consistently ranks as one of the top states in the nation for reported cases of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. However, there are ways to protect people, pets and livestock against ticks and the pathogens they carry, according to Erika Machtinger, associate professor of entomology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Dipanjan Pan named Huck director for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems
Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has named Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of materials science and engineering and of nuclear engineering, to serve as the Huck’s first director for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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Plant genes influence bacterial evolution in legume-bacteria partnership
In a recently published study, Penn State researchers described the complex relationship between plant host genes and rhizobial genes, and how plant genes strongly influence which rhizobial strains plants chose from a diverse mixture.
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Jun 01, 2026
Four researchers win data harmonization competition
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) at Penn State has awarded four researchers from across the world for their efforts in building machine learning-based approaches to streamlining publicly available datasets for reuse. The researchers — two individuals and one team of two — won a competition hosted by the center and designed to showcase data harmonization solutions.
May 29, 2026
Third Center for RNA Molecular Biology Symposium brings together researchers
Since 2009, the Center for RNA Molecular Biology has provided a space for researchers across Penn State to gather to share ideas, develop skills and foster collaboration. What started as a joint lab meeting in 1998 has since grown into a center that is composed of a diverse group of faculty, graduate students and postdocs from departments including biochemistry and molecular biology, chemistry, biology and chemical engineering.
May 28, 2026
Penn State student wins international award for sourdough microbiome research
Quinn Burnett, a fourth-year food science student in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, was recognized for her research on how sourdough starter microbiomes affect the digestibility of breads at the IPA World Congress + Probiota 2026 conference earlier this year in Dublin.
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Jun 01, 2026
Four researchers win data harmonization competition
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) at Penn State has awarded four researchers from across the world for their efforts in building machine learning-based approaches to streamlining publicly available datasets for reuse. The researchers — two individuals and one team of two — won a competition hosted by the center and designed to showcase data harmonization solutions.
May 29, 2026
Third Center for RNA Molecular Biology Symposium brings together researchers
Since 2009, the Center for RNA Molecular Biology has provided a space for researchers across Penn State to gather to share ideas, develop skills and foster collaboration. What started as a joint lab meeting in 1998 has since grown into a center that is composed of a diverse group of faculty, graduate students and postdocs from departments including biochemistry and molecular biology, chemistry, biology and chemical engineering.
May 28, 2026
Penn State student wins international award for sourdough microbiome research
Quinn Burnett, a fourth-year food science student in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, was recognized for her research on how sourdough starter microbiomes affect the digestibility of breads at the IPA World Congress + Probiota 2026 conference earlier this year in Dublin.
May 27, 2026
Common protective soybean seed treatment may not increase profitability
Many soybean farmers use seeds treated with fungicides to ward off disease, but the profits from these increased yields might not offset the cost of the treatment in most cases, according to a study published in Scientific Reports by researchers at Penn State.
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How and why multicopy genes survive on the human Y chromosome
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