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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, which is entirely administered by students, is the only…
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 the…
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 National Laboratory, and…
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 events…
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 scientists and researchers in the…
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…
Tie the Terminator Down
Bacterial termination factor Rho triggers the premature release of poorly translated and potentially harmful RNAs to maintain the transcriptome quality and silence prophages. In turn, bacteria and…
Identifying the genes that viruses ‘steal’ from ocean microbes
Study suggests viruses reprogram at least 1/3 of metabolic processes By: Emily Caldwell, OSU News COLUMBUS, Ohio – The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don’t do the work on their own – the…