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New Graduate Students Autumn 2016
New Microbiology PhD Students Autumn 2016 Siavash Azari Yunxiao…
Novel compound shows promise against breast cancer
Potential drug doubles survival time in mice by interrupting tumor growth, promoting cancer cell death By: Misti Crane COLUMBUS, Ohio – A promising new compound appears to impede a process that fuels…
Global Climate Impacts
Dr. Matthew Sullivan recently worked with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to participate in an Expert Q&A about the Oceans Ecosystems and the importance of microbes in…
The Eng1 β-Glucanase Enhances Histoplasma Virulence by Reducing β-Glucan Exposure
Andrew Garfoot, graduate student in Dr. Chad Rappleye's lab, recently had a high profile first author publication in MBio. Below is the abstract of the publication: The fungal pathogen Histoplasma…
Microbiology Student receives NSF Fellowship
Garrett Smith, graduate student in Dr. Kelly Wrighton's lab, received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2016-2017 year. Anne Booker, graduate student in Dr. Michael Wilkins's lab, received…
Discovery Themes Talks featuring Infectious Disease
Held on May 13, 2016, the first Discovery Talks program was the culmination of a month of TED-style training for 10 experts in infectious disease at Ohio State. Their final projects, 10-minute TED…
First ever vaccine for deadly parasitic infection may help prevent another global disease outbreak
As scientists scramble to get a Zika virus vaccine into human trials by the end of the summer, a team of researchers is working on the first-ever vaccine to prevent another insect-borne disease –…
HIV Awareness Takes Center Stage
HIV is a disease not often talked about widely in society, but last Tuesday night at The STEAM Factory, it was all anyone could talk about. Students from the course, HIV: From Macro History to…
The Haiku of Microbes: Served up on petri dishes
Kathleen Sandman has always used innovative approaches to teaching microbiology to undergraduates, both majors and non-majors. One of the courses she teaches is the introductory microbiology course…