🦠 Gut microbiome Job Alert! 💩 📷The Townsend Lab is hiring a POSTDOC to understand the interactions between the gut and microbiota by characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying this relationship.📷 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/job/…

🚨Microbiome Job Alert🚨 We're hiring a postdoc to develop and study plant-associated disease suppressive microbial communities! This is a multi-year USDA funded project 🍅🌱🦠 Please RT!!! Apply here -> rb.gy/r1wk2 Recent paper -> rb.gy/vhxae 1/2

Your PI back from summer vacation

I am still looking for postdocs to join my lab. I have several NIH-funded positions to work either on Acinetobacter pathogenesis or OMV biogenesis in Bacteroides. Please RT.

🦠We are getting excited for the One Health Microbiome Symposium, taking place on May 30-31st at the University Park campus! This year's symposium will feature Dr. Paul Schulzef-Lefert from Universität zu Köln MPIPZ Cologne, giving a talk on understanding plant root #microbiota. 🌿

Alright stop, collaborate and listen, #phageWO is back with a brand new invention. Developing sperm is in yellow. Long noncoding RNA is in blue. Cytoplasmic incompatibility depletes this blue messenger to initiate the catastrophic cascade leading to paternal-effect lethality.

We're thrilled to lift another veil of our partnership with QIAGEN and One Health Microbiome Center as we build towards creating the best industry-academic experience in the one health microbiome sciences at Penn State and Huck Institutes. Much more to come. youtube.com/watch?v=cdOOsK…

Today in #ANSC456 our undergrad Ethan Smith is teaching the basics of R in Penn State’s ROAR supercomputer. For PIs out there: Ethan will be looking for grad mentors soon! He was introduced to coding during my class last year and is now teaching it. 🤓#proud

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔬🤖 AI is decoding microbial messages in milk to boost safety testing and improve quality. 🥛Great collab with IBM and Cornell University Learn more: bit.ly/MilkSafetyAI Read the full study: bit.ly/AI-MicrobiomeS… #FoodSafety #AI #Microbiome #Milk One Health Microbiome Center

Hierarchical glycolytic pathways control the carbohydrate utilization regulator in human gut Bacteroides biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

New paper from the lab out today on Akkermansia muciniphila and how it breaks down host glycans! IMIBirmingham College of Medicine and Health (UoB) Very proud of my group, especially Cassie Bakshani who did an amazing job. Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Just one single gut bacteria is astonishingly sufficient to repress the antibiotic-resistant C. difficile infection. A real game changer from One Health Microbiome Center executive committee member Jordan Bisanz and Co. AI and synthetic communities boiled it down. psu.edu/news/research/…

The bacteria dominating your gut #microbiome power their #metabolism with pyrophosphate rather than ATP. Seth Kabonick and squad shows that ATP-dependent FBP synthesis instead controls their carbohydrate utilization regulator. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🦠💥 New from The Townsend Lab : Simple sugars disrupt gut Bacteroides by inhibiting the key regulator Cur. ATP-dependent FBP synthesis controls this — linking sugar-rich diets to changes in gut fitness & host interactions. Full paper 👉 nature.com/articles/s4146… #Microbiome #GutHealth

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

🎉 Big news! Penn State News ranks 24th in the U.S. and 82nd globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings — and the One Health Microbiome Center got a shoutout for our role in advancing global microbiome science! 🌎🦠 Full story 👉 psu.edu/news/academics… #OneHealth #Microbiome #PennState

In this article, Ginnan et al. propose that the One Health framework needs a shift in focus from disease surveillance to microbial stewardship. An integrative One Health microbiome science approach breaks down traditional silos in microbiome research: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…