🎙️Announcing an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR search for a faculty member studying: microbiome, cancer, toxicology, and impacts of drugs or environmental chemicals on disease. Join our microbiome jubilee One Health Microbiome Center and vibrant research enterprise. Please RT. ⁦ psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…

Had the phenomenal opportunity to spend one week in the lab of the brilliant Estelle Couradeau at Penn State to learn how to squeeze out beautiful pigments from The Jornada #biocrusts. Of course I also had to spot for local crusts!!! 😍💚🤩

Stop by the Pasto Ag Museum at Ag Progress Day in State College, PA to see what microbes live in our soil! 🦠🌿🦠🐝🐄🦠 MacrobesForMicrobes have an incredible exhibit including a 5 week old #Winogradsky column!

Come see the fantastic soil microbes exhibit PSU Ecosystems Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences at Ag Progress Day! Discover microbial super powers🦸‍♂️! MacrobesForMicrobes are the grad student superheroes who put it together!

Pre-college teachers, students, postdocs, faculty, and staff: What do you need to advance your microbiome research and education? 🦠 We are assessing national microbiome sequencing and support needs. 💥Please share with friends and colleagues!💥 nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Estelle Couradeau (Estelle Couradeau) will lead a $500,000 U.S. National Science Foundation project of "the world’s fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot," which is in jeopardy. PS—this project was also a 2022 IEE seed grant 🎉 psu.edu/news/research/…

OHMC's Estelle Couradeau will lead an U.S. National Science Foundation funded team, including Siela Maximova Jose-Luis Machado Utadeo Penn State Global PSU Ecosystems State College SD researching how #ClimateChange will affect soil microbes in the #Paramos ecosystem in Colombia's Mts 🏔️! psu.edu/news/research/…

Sarah Richards is also advised by my fantastic colleague 🤩 Terry Bell now University of Toronto Scarborough utsc.utoronto.ca/labs/microbiom…

We are recruiting!!! Are you fascinated by #biocrust & #drylands & looking for a postdoc position? Do you like working in an interdisciplinary team bridging basic science with applied science? Enjoy the beauty of the Mojave, Sonoran, & Chihuahua Desert? We invite your application

🌍 Join us Friday at 11AM ET to hear Chad Fautt from PSU Ecosystems and Estelle Couradeau Kevin Hockett Labs discuss Pseudomonas syringae competition and virulence, including in silico modeling, comparative genomics, and more! If you can't come in person, DM us for the zoom link!

FI is happy to offer one $2000 Travel Award for a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend a conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field. Apply: fieldinclusive.org/student-travel… Note: Applications from Non-U.S. institutions are not eligible.

Research.com is clearly showing that focusing on metrics and rankings such as number of papers or citations can be a complete failure in particular cases. A director who's put himself on all papers from his institute is not necessarily a "Best Scientist" or a leader.

🥳Congratulations to our very own Dr. Siela Maximova (Siela Maximova) and Dr. Estelle Couradeau (Estelle Couradeau), who received the "Research Guidance Award" from the IEE at Penn State! They were recognized for their outstanding mentorship of pre-tenured or non-tenured faculty.

🎙️ New search for DEPARTMENT HEAD of Ecosystem Science and Management Penn State. The academic leader will be home to an ecosystem-focused group with several great #microbiome faculty. The Head reports directly to the Dean of the College of Ag Sciences. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad…

Congratulations Tong !

My (awesome) department is hiring an evolutionary genomicist. Come be my colleague!

📣Attention #biocrust researchers (at all career stages!) We're having our second international biocrust reading group next week! August 20th at 16:00 GMT. We'll be discussing the below paper. Message me or @PhillipsMichala if you want to join! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 We are Hiring! The One Health Microbiome Center seeks a Research Project Manager to lead interdisciplinary projects, manage grants, and oversee outreach. Must have a Master’s/PhD in a related field. Apply now! #Microbiome #Research #Projectmanager 🧑‍💼 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Staf…