Kevin Hockett
@k_hockett
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Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology - Penn State - PPEM
State College, PA
Joined July 2013
📢 Meet the newest faculty member and academic affiliate professor of @PSUmBiome @PennStateBio. Welcome Ashley Shade back to central Pennsylvania and the Disney World of the Life Sciences! Ashley has long championed the global importance of microbiome science.
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We’re beyond honored to announce our final keynote speaker for the OHMC 2026 Symposium: Dr. Arturo Casadevall! A global leader in infectious disease and immunology, Dr. Arturo Casadevall will join us May 13–14, 2026 at Penn State. 👉 Register today: https://t.co/kcdYvFvj9t
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🌱🔬 New research led by @k_hockett shows how plant microbiomes help defend against bacterial speck disease. Plants enriched with Xanthomonas & Pseudomonas → reduced disease → potential for microbial treatments to protect crops. 🔗 https://t.co/UlMkqYOCHd
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Bacterial speck is a common disease affecting tomatoes that can result in lower yields for growers. A new study led by researchers at Penn State gives new clues on how a plant’s microbiome can be...
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Joy is a proven leader in the life sciences and a brain power behind the new Simons Foundation call for collaborative ecology and evolution projects. Come jolt your thinking with her and the community at the ONE HEALTH MICROBIOME SYMPOSIUM 🌱🦠
We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for the OHMC 2026 Symposium: Dr. Joy Bergelson 🎉 A pioneer in plant–microbe interactions & coevolution, Dr. Bergelson will join us May 13–14, 2026 at Penn State. Register today! https://t.co/kcdYvFuLjV
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OPEN INVITATION: @PSUmBiome to host the One Health Microbiome Symposium, May 13-14, 2026. The event will unsilo diverse research fields in microbiome science to unify the intricate roles that microbes play in and across Ag, Envtl, and Human Health. 1/n https://t.co/LObLfSJLI7
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The 2026 One Health Microbiome Symposium will be hosted at Penn State University. Abstract submissions will open early 2026.
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🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking a new ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Join the Microbiome Jubilee! Learn more:
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A host has never been just a host. A host has always lived as a multiscale holobiont made from context-sensitive cells of host and microorganisms. It is ultimately this dynamic composition that determines forms, functions, and their endless variations.
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Uniting life’s seen and unseen realms guides a conceptual advance in research
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Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱@michiganstateu @MSU_PSM
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Excited to be attending my first APS in Hawaii! 🌺 #planthealth2025
🌺 Aloha, to the Plant Health community! The wait is almost over, and #PlantHealth2025 kicks off soon! Get ready for 4 days of cutting-edge science, global collaboration, and unforgettable experiences. We’ll see you there! Schedule: https://t.co/oJptvj1u1y
#PlantPathology
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The @PSUmBiome received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support to graduate students in the microbiome sciences. https://t.co/YX0Bn4qigL
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The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support...
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New MEC study on how endemic diseases unfold in agricultural fields, describing an integrative approach that links measurements of pathogen diversity and dynamics in the field with local climatic conditions. @WileyEcolEvol 🔗: https://t.co/oBIBVYZUZU 📷: Zachary Snipes 1/2
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From concept to marshaling the forces for readiness, nothing compares to an undivided team of @PSUmBiome academics & industry partners designed to unsilo their field and set a new standard for microbiome science education and accreditation. Let us go North
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The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support...
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🌿🦠 New from the @k_hockett lab @PennState: Phyllosphere microbiomes on tomato plants rapidly shift under pathogen pressure, enriching disease-suppressive microbes & antagonistic genes. Read it 👉 https://t.co/qms5Xq2RF9
#Microbiome #PlantHealth #Phyllosphere
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Background Microbial-based treatments to protect plants against phytopathogens typically focus on soil-borne disease or the aboveground application of one or a few biocontrol microorganisms. However,...
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This work follows up on our previous paper describing the development of said disease suppressive communities https://t.co/aOvyXc4h6U
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Microbial community-based disease management approaches have the potential to substitute or combine with currently employed strategies. Suppressive soils are great examples of microbial communities...
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Thrilled to see this work published! We analyzed foliar disease suppressive microbial communities from tomato to identify taxa and functions associated with suppression. Congratulations to @hanareiaehau, Javad Sadeghi and Terrence Bell! @PSUmBiome
https://t.co/cvvBUWBKUG
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Background Microbial-based treatments to protect plants against phytopathogens typically focus on soil-borne disease or the aboveground application of one or a few biocontrol microorganisms. However,...
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Congratulations @Isabel_Laforest !
ISME congratulates @Isabel_Laforest from @USherbrooke as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. 🔗 https://t.co/zeUnx7CRJK
#MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20
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An 8-year field study, led by Tim Paulitz and Olga Mavrodi, shows wheat roots dynamically engineer their microbiomes in response to varying environmental conditions—a breakthrough for crop resilience strategies. Read the press release to learn more: https://t.co/7WZ0w8NxEI
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Glassman lab at #asmmicrobe2025 come see @Pulido_Fabi and @Ehsan_Sari posters on Friday, my and @Dylan_J_Enright posters on Saturday and @Basubi11 poster on Sunday! #fire #fungi #bacteria 🔥🦠🌲
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Now published online in @NewPhyt 🎉 https://t.co/QpAUyg9CTH This work was spearheaded by Shuang Yang from Xiaoming Pang's group in Beijing Forestry University who came to @TheSainsburyLab working with @wenboEffector and myself. Jujube Witches' Broom Phytoplasma effector🧵⬇️(1/8)
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🌱It has common wisdom that twisted mutants in Arabidopsis trace back to skewed microtubules, but is this true of twining vines? In this new #OnyenedumLab preprint, we find the counterintuitive result that, no, longitudinal microtubules prevails😱 https://t.co/k9vlXvRt7d
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