August 2, 2023
Carolee Bull, professor of systematic bacteriology and plant pathology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected to the presidential lineage of the American Phytopathological Society.
December 19, 2022
In support of the Penn State Microbiome Center, Indigo Agriculture created the Indigo Agriculture Graduate Fellowship in the College of Agricultural Sciences through a $200,000 gift, matched 1:1 by the University through the now-concluded Graduate Scholarship Matching Program.
November 7, 2022
The Latinx Agricultural Network in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has been lauded nationally for enhancing engagement with and support for Pennsylvania’s Latino agricultural community.
October 3, 2022
After more than five years at the helm of Penn State’s Microbiome Center, founding director Carolee Bull has stepped down. Though she will continue serving as department head of plant pathology and environmental microbiology and as a professor of plant pathology and systematic bacteriology at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Bull has handed off leadership of the Microbiome Center to recent Penn State hire Seth Bordentstein.
May 11, 2022
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology announced its 2022 awards and scholarships recipients during their annual celebration on May 2 at the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center in State College.
November 24, 2021
Congratulations to Rachel for passing their qualifying exam this semester.
October 11, 2021
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) program selected proposals of four plant pathology graduate students for the 2021 Graduate Student Grant Awards. SARE offers competitive grants to projects that explore and address key issues affecting the sustainability and future economic viability of agriculture.
June 15, 2021
Four individuals have received the 2021 Dr. William Henson Diversity Achievement Award from Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, an honor that recognizes distinctive and outstanding teaching, research, extension or creative work that advances diversity in the college.
April 2, 2021
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology announced its 2021 awards and scholarships recipients during their virtual awards ceremony on March 31.
February 23, 2021
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology welcomed a new support staff member, Abigail Deaven, earlier this year. Deaven's position supports department research of bacteriocins and bacteriophage in biological control of pathogens causing blotch on mushrooms.
January 28, 2021
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology welcomes new research technologist, Shaheen Bibi, who joined Bull Lab earlier this month. Bibi will serve as the lab manager for the team.
January 21, 2021
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology welcomes new postdoctoral scholar, Raymond García-Rodríguez, who joined the Bull Lab earlier this month.
January 14, 2021
Rachel Herschlag, a doctoral student in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2020-21 Distinguished Graduate Fellowships.
August 24, 2020
Carolee Bull, professor of systematic bacteriology and 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.
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Emma Rosenthal for passing her comprehensive examination.
March 3, 2020
The Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology announced its 2020 awards and scholarships recipients during their annual winter celebration on February 17 at the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center in State College.
December 12, 2019
Amanda Mainello successfully defended her thesis on December 11, 2019.
November 15, 2019
Emma Rosenthal and Ilsa Huerta, both graduate students in the College of Agricultural Sciences, began working together in 2017 because of a shared realization.
October 24, 2019
As a de la Torre Scholar in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Terry Torres-Cruz aspires to foster relationships between the college and Latin America by sharing her connections and experiences.
October 10, 2019
A new strategic planning group at Penn State seeks to enhance engagement and continue to provide support to Pennsylvania’s Latinx agricultural community.
October 3, 2019
A nearly $4 million grant awarded to Penn State will support an interdisciplinary, multi-university team of researchers as they explore bacterial pathogens causing leaf spot diseases that are damaging valuable agricultural crops such as watermelon and pumpkin.
September 18, 2019
Interdisciplinary work truly defines Carolee Bull, director of Penn State's Microbiome Center and professor and department head of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology. Her research centers around translational taxonomy which is the use of bacterial systematics, combined with epidemiology, and population biology of bacterial plant and mushroom pathogens and biological control agents to manage plant and mushroom diseases. Bull’s work spans some of the most pressing issues of food security, such as global seed health.
July 30, 2018
Plenary Session – Plant Health is the Earth’s Wealth featuring “Taxing Times – Plant Pathogens in a Global Economy,” by Dr. Carolee T. Bull.
April 13, 2018
Emma Rosenthal, a doctoral student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, will be able to advance her research interests in plant pathology after receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will support Rosenthal's research on bacterial leaf spot, a disease that infects lettuce plants.
November 1, 2017
Dr. Carolee Bull was recognized for her professional achievements by her alma mater, Ohio University, during a ceremony in Athens, Ohio, on October 27.
October 24, 2017
The Microbiome Research Center's November mini-symposium will show how artists and scientists can work together to forge a better understanding of the world.
October 21, 2017
Dr. Samuel Martins presented at the 2017 conference, which took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-21.
September 29, 2017
This year's networking event will take place at the Huck Life Sciences Building 3rd floor bridge on October 3, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
August 28, 2017
Dr. Samuel J. Martins began work as Bull Lab Research Technologist and Lab Manager on August 28.
July 31, 2017
Laura Ramos-Sepúlveda becomes Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Millersville University on Aug. 1.
