2024 Awardees

The composition of environmental microbiota in three tree fruit packing facilities changed over seasons and contained taxa indicative of L. monocytogenes contamination

Microbiome, 11(1), Article 128

Laura Rolon, Xiaoqing Tan, Taejung Chung, Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona, Yi Chen, Dumitru Macarisin, Luke F. LaBorde, Jasna Kovac

Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species

Jason Keagy, Chloe P. Drummond, Kadeem J. Gilbert, Christina M. Grozinger, Jill Hamilton, Heather M. Hines, Jesse Lasky, Cheryl A. Logan, Ruairich Sawers, Tyler Wagner

Prophage proteins alter long noncoding RNA and DNA of developing sperm to induce a paternal-effect lethality.

Science, 383(6687), 1111-1117

Rupinder Kaur, Angelina McGarry, J. Dylan Shropshire, Brittany A. Leigh, Seth R. Bordenstein

Bile salt hydrolase catalyses formation of amine-conjugated bile acids

Nature, 626(8000), 859-863

Bipin Rimal, Stephanie L. Collins, Ceylan E. Tanes, Edson R. Rocha, Megan A. Granda, Sumeet Solanki, Nushrat J. Hoque, Emily C. Gentry, Imhoi Koo, Erin R. Reilly, Fuhua Hao, Devendra Paudel, Vishal Singh, Tingting Yan, Min Soo Kim, Kyle Bittinger, Joseph P. Zackular, Kristopher W. Krausz, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, James P. Coleman, Yatrik M. Shah, Jordan E. Bisanz, Frank J. Gonzalez, John P. Vanden Heuvel, Gary D. Wu, Babette S. Zemel, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Emily E. Weinert & Andrew D. Patterson

Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland

Energy Research and Social Science, 108, Article 103394

Kaitlyn Spangler, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Stephanie Buechler, Jennifer Baka

A deep learning-based novel approach to generate continuous daily stream nitrate concentration
for nitrate data-sparse watersheds

Gourab Kumer Saha, Farshid Rahmani, Chaopeng Shen, Li Li, Raj Cibin