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Join us for our first Biology Department seminar of the semester:
🎤 Cecile Viboud (NIH)
🗓️ Jan 13 | 12 PM | 8 Müller Lab
Evolution, Immunity, and the Predictability of Respiratory Virus Epidemics

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#Evolution #Genomics #Warblers #BiologyDept #PSUResearchers

Scientists found gene introgression across species that influences bright plumage colors like yellow and red — shedding light on rapid evolution in these songbirds. 🧬✨ Read more 👇

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👏 Please join us in congratulating Daniel, Hong, Laura, and Laurel on these exceptional accomplishments!
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🔹 Laurel Seemiller, postdoc in the Crowley Lab, was selected as one of The Transmitter’s 25 Rising Stars in Neuroscience. Her work on adolescent binge drinking is supported by an F32 NRSA fellowship from NIAAA.

🔹 PhD student Laura Schuck has been named a finalist for the prestigious Simons Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution, one of the top national honors for early-career researchers.

🔹 Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List includes two of our faculty — Daniel Cosgrove and Hong Ma (listed under a different PA affiliation). This distinction recognizes scientists whose published work ranks in the top 1% worldwide. Truly outstanding!

De la Fuente’s team uses AI to design entirely new antibiotics—shifting the paradigm in drug discovery.
🗓 Date: Dec 5
📍 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library (In-person & online)
🚨 Registration required.
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Join us at Penn State University via the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences + One Health Microbiome Center seminar series.
Why it matters: - Antimicrobial resistance claimed over 1 million lives in 2019 and is a top global health threat.

🏅 Award recipients:
• 5 yrs: Yuting Bai, Ana Butler, Irina Tishina
• 15 yrs: Paula Ralph
• 25 yrs: Edward Wagner
• Biology Staff Award: Mindy Vail
• Research Staff Award: Huiqing Zeng
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👏 Thank you for everything you do—our research, teaching, and outreach wouldn’t be possible without you!
🧪 Costume highlights: • Advising team as “The Weather” ☁️🌪️• Office staff as Mad Scientist & Mice 🧫🐭 (winners of Scariest Costume!)