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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…
Combining genetic, biochemical, and structural approaches, the authors show how translation of rpsU (bS21) in Flavobacterium johnsoniae is autoregulated by ribosomes lacking bS21…
The College of Arts and Sciences Student Council has awarded Dr. Darryl Wesener with the 2025-2026 Outstanding Teaching Award.
The award,…
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…
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…
Congratulations to the Justin North Lab on their recent publication! Members of the North Lab, in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Berkeley…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Study shows soil pH sets stage for microbial interactions, composition
by: Emily Caldwell; caldwell.151@osu.edu
Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its 2023 Class of Fellows on April 18, 2024.
Among this prestigious group are Ohio State’s own Natividad “Natacha”…
To make RNAs, which can be as long as a million nucleotides, RNA polymerases must overcome many challenges, from DNA-bound protein roadblocks to termination factors that induce premature RNA…
Earlier this academic year, ASC Office of Distance Education Instructional Designer Sarah Dove had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Madhura Pradhan, Professor of Teaching of Microbiology, to…
The Ohio State University announced a series of initiatives, launched by the Graduate School and the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA), that aim to accelerate graduate student success and…
Ohio State, alongside the mental health and wellness research and development company Inner State Inc., was awarded the first-ever license by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to an American…
Matthew Sullivan, PhD, professor of microbiology in the College of Arts and Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, has earned The Ohio State…