microbiology
microbiology
Bryant elected to American Academy of Microbiology Board of Governors
11/15/12
Donald A. Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology, has been elected by the Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) to the Board of Governors. The three-year term is an elected position that is voted upon by the membership of AAM, the honorific arm of the American Society for Microbiology.
Bryant has received many other awards and honors throughout his career. He was the Daniel I. Arnon Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. He received the Daniel R. Tershak Memorial Teaching Award from Penn State's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2010 and, in 2006, he received a prize for the best basic research paper from the Rebeiz Foundation. In 1995, he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Frontiers in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. Throughout his years at Penn State he has mentored more than 45 graduate students and many undergraduate students.
Presentation examines infectious disease research in the Amazon
10/24/12
On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, Dr. David Craft, medical director of microbiology, and four first-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine will give a presentation about their summer research in Peru.
Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme
1/30/12
The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria -- Chryseobacterium and Paenisporosarcina -- showed signs of respiration in ice made in the laboratory that was designed to simulate as closely as possible the temperatures and nutrient content found at the bottom of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers, said Corien Bakermans, assistant professor of microbiology, Penn State Altoona. She said that carbon dioxide levels in the laboratory-made ice containing the bacteria, which were collected from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, indicated that respiration was occurring at temperatures ranging from negative 27 to positive 24 degrees Fahrenheit.
Swine flu nothing new to scientists in College of Ag Sciences
5/7/09
Swine flu is no mystery to scientists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who have been keeping a wary eye on the virus in pigs for decades and researching better vaccines to prevent it, methods to limit its spread, and ways to predict and gauge the risks it poses to human health.
Featured Site: Venture Deep Ocean
6/8/05
Biology professor Charles Fisher will spend most of June far from land, leading a research expedition to the Lau Basin between Tonga and Fiji in the South Pacific. The three-week cruise aboard the research vessel Melville is the latest in a series funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Where Iron and Immunity Intersect
5/1/03
Visualize the villi of the small intestine as a field of corncob-shaped protrusions, a complexity of tissue whose absorptive surface area covers thousands of square feet. A single villus measures 0.02 to 0.04 inch in length, or about as long as two or three playing cards are thick. It is coated with epithelial cells: like kernels on the cob. An epithelial cell, or enterocyte, lives for about three days. It originates in the crypt, a low-lying portion of the villus; pushed by cell division, it migrates slowly upward.
The Gag Machine
6/1/95
A virus works by invasion and takeover. Once it gains entry, the viral particle commandeers a cell's reproductive apparatus to make more of itself. New-minted particles migrate to the cell wall and push through it, pinching off to freedom in a process called budding. Then away they swim in search of new cells to conquer.
In retroviruses, including the AIDS virus HIV, control over budding falls to the gag gene.
December 2012
12/3/12
Photo of the Day set for December 2012. Penn State's University Park campus.
Bryant elected to American Academy of Microbiology Board of Governors
11/15/12
Donald A. Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology, has been elected by the Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) to the Board of Governors. The three-year term is an elected position that is voted upon by the membership of AAM, the honorific arm of the American Society for Microbiology.
Bryant has received many other awards and honors throughout his career. He was the Daniel I. Arnon Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. He received the Daniel R. Tershak Memorial Teaching Award from Penn State's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2010 and, in 2006, he received a prize for the best basic research paper from the Rebeiz Foundation. In 1995, he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Frontiers in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. Throughout his years at Penn State he has mentored more than 45 graduate students and many undergraduate students.
Presentation examines infectious disease research in the Amazon
10/24/12
On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, Dr. David Craft, medical director of microbiology, and four first-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine will give a presentation about their summer research in Peru.
Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme
1/30/12
The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria -- Chryseobacterium and Paenisporosarcina -- showed signs of respiration in ice made in the laboratory that was designed to simulate as closely as possible the temperatures and nutrient content found at the bottom of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers, said Corien Bakermans, assistant professor of microbiology, Penn State Altoona. She said that carbon dioxide levels in the laboratory-made ice containing the bacteria, which were collected from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, indicated that respiration was occurring at temperatures ranging from negative 27 to positive 24 degrees Fahrenheit.
Swine flu nothing new to scientists in College of Ag Sciences
5/7/09
Swine flu is no mystery to scientists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who have been keeping a wary eye on the virus in pigs for decades and researching better vaccines to prevent it, methods to limit its spread, and ways to predict and gauge the risks it poses to human health.
Featured Site: Venture Deep Ocean
6/8/05
Biology professor Charles Fisher will spend most of June far from land, leading a research expedition to the Lau Basin between Tonga and Fiji in the South Pacific. The three-week cruise aboard the research vessel Melville is the latest in a series funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Where Iron and Immunity Intersect
5/1/03
Visualize the villi of the small intestine as a field of corncob-shaped protrusions, a complexity of tissue whose absorptive surface area covers thousands of square feet. A single villus measures 0.02 to 0.04 inch in length, or about as long as two or three playing cards are thick. It is coated with epithelial cells: like kernels on the cob. An epithelial cell, or enterocyte, lives for about three days. It originates in the crypt, a low-lying portion of the villus; pushed by cell division, it migrates slowly upward.
The Gag Machine
6/1/95
A virus works by invasion and takeover. Once it gains entry, the viral particle commandeers a cell's reproductive apparatus to make more of itself. New-minted particles migrate to the cell wall and push through it, pinching off to freedom in a process called budding. Then away they swim in search of new cells to conquer.
In retroviruses, including the AIDS virus HIV, control over budding falls to the gag gene.