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June 26, 2017
Arabella (Bell) Confer joins PPEM as Financial Assistant beginning June 26.
June 22, 2017
Dr. Alyssa Collins helped with project to provide growers and industry with comprehensive study information especially focused on disease control.
June 6, 2017
In keeping with Penn State's recent focus on microbiome research, the University will join the International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research as a sponsoring partner, both organizations announced on June 6. An international, nonprofit consortium of academic institutions, large and small companies, and governmental agencies, the Phytobiomes Alliance was established in 2016 to coordinate public-private research projects on various aspects of agriculturally relevant phytobiomes.
June 5, 2017
Year two of three-year USDA NIFA AFRI project directed by Dr. Tim McNellis began eight-week summer program on June 5.
June 2, 2017
Dr. Lydia Tymon from WSU Mount Vernon NW Washington Research & Extension Center visits Bull Lab.
May 30, 2017
Ph.D. student Khumbuzile Bophela joins the Bull Lab this summer, beginning May 30.
May 23, 2017
Cristina Rosa's travel proposal was selected to a faculty development fund to support her travel to Croatia.
May 23, 2017
A proposal by Drs. Jiménez Gasco and Peter receive program support for fruit production research funds, effective July 1.
May 22, 2017
Research tangent pursued in 2012 by inquisitive PhD student Matt Kasson provided starting point for international collaboration.
May 18, 2017
Seogchan Kang, professor of plant pathology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society, an honor given to members in recognition of distinguished contributions to the discipline of plant pathology.
May 18, 2017
Drs. Bell, Hockett, and Peter to present at Penn State Microbiome Center's "An Apple a Day!" event on May 24.
May 18, 2017
Anita Behari and Ningxiao Li receive APS travel awards to present research at 2017 Annual Meeting.
May 15, 2017
The Hockett Lab welcomed new Research Technologist Stacey Scott on May 15.
May 11, 2017
PPEM mourns the loss of Dr. James R. Bloom, Sr., who died on May 10. He was Dept. Head, 1975-1976, and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1987.
May 5, 2017
Dr. Terrence Bell was awarded DOE Joint Genome Institute sequencing from the Small-scale Microbial/Metagenome Program on May 5.
April 27, 2017
Cullen Dixon, a plant sciences major, participates in a lab that tests the effectiveness of secondary metabolite compounds produced by sorghum as potential biopesticides in combating foliar diseases of Zea mays, or corn.
April 27, 2017
PPEM welcomes Ph.D. student Andrea Wilson, visiting for two months from the University of Pretoria.
April 25, 2017
Congratulations to M.S. student Melissa Finley for successfully defending her thesis on April 25.
April 25, 2017
Three graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences -- Phillip Martin, Ismaiel Szink and Rachel Rozum -- recently received prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
April 24, 2017
Emily Pfeufer (M.S. 2010, Ph.D. 2014) is Assistant Extension Professor in Dept. of Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky.
April 22, 2017
Dr. Carolee Bull discussed her research in a lightning talk for the Blue-White Science Expo on April 22.
April 18, 2017
Ph.D. candidate Bastian Minkenberg was selected for Penn State's Alumni Association Dissertation Award of $5,000.
April 17, 2017
Mushroom Science and Technology minor Aarushi Rana aims to make life better in Mumbai, India.
April 17, 2017
Cláudio Maurício Vrisman, Ph.D. student from Ohio State, was a seminar exchange program speaker on April 17.
April 17, 2017
Yahoo News reports on the “CRISPR Revolution" and Yinong Yang's gene-edited mushrooms.
April 13, 2017
The Dept. of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology held its 2017 Annual Awards Ceremony on April 13.
April 12, 2017
Commitment to outreach a major focus of Rosenthal's 2017-2018 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship.
April 10, 2017
Dr. Brian Staskawicz delivered the Richard R. Nelson Memorial Lecture on April 10.
April 6, 2017
Drs. Carolee Bull and Laura Ramos-Sepúlveda began mushroom research collaboration with Lincoln University on April 6.
April 4, 2017
Dr. Erica Goss, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, was PoppR Workshop instructor and colloquium speaker on April 3.
