News
Chad Rappleye Nominated for Lead.Serve.Inspire Outstanding Educator Award
Professor Chad Rappleye has been nominated for OSU College of Medicine’s Outstanding Educator Part One Award – Host Defense Block.
Part One refers to OSU College of Medicine’s Lead.Serve…
Fredrick Lab Publishes Back-to-back Papers in Nucleic Acids Research
Combining genetic, biochemical, and structural approaches, the authors show how translation of rpsU (bS21) in Flavobacterium johnsoniae is autoregulated by ribosomes lacking bS21…
Darryl Wesener Selected for Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award
The College of Arts and Sciences Student Council has awarded Dr. Darryl Wesener with the 2025-2026 Outstanding Teaching Award.
The award,…
3 Microbiology Majors Win Awards at Denman Research Forum
Three Microbiology majors won awards at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum last week:
Thaddeus Bowen – 1st Place in Food, Agriculture, & Animal Sciences for poster entitled “Investigating…
New Article from Bell Lab Published in Nature Communications
DNA replication duplicates the genome and the resultant chromosomes are then segregated into daughter cells. How this segregation process is achieved in archaea has been poorly understood. A new…
North Lab Published in Nature Catalysis
Congratulations to the Justin North Lab on their recent publication! Members of the North Lab, in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Berkeley…
The Evolution of the Eukaryotic DNA Replication Machinery
It is now well established that the remarkably complex eukaryotic DNA replication apparatus evolved from a related but simpler machinery found in present day archaea. However, the evolutionary…
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Sullivan for receiving an ASM Award!
from ASM:
Washington, D.C.—The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) announced the recipients of its 2026 Awards and Prize Program. The awards recognize leading…
New Insights into DNA Replication
DNA replication is an essential process for the propagation of life on this planet. Steve Bell’s lab has been studying this process in the hyperthermophilic microrganisms of the archaeal domain of…