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Ohio State, Harvard research could help fight E. coli
By Ben Sutherly
Researchers at Ohio State and Harvard universities have fueled a scientific duel over which protein controls a biological process in E. coli crucial to keeping the bacterium…

New Graduate Students Autumn 2014
New Microbiology PhD StudentsBlake Bertani
Anne Booker
Michelle Gibbs
Kristie Goughenour
Ben Jahnes
Dan Marcus
Daniel Ortiz Aldana
Gabriel Silveira d'…

Dr. Tabita and Oakbio collaborate on $500,000 Grant
Oakbio and OSU Awarded $500,000 Grant to Develop System for production of Butanol and Plastics from CO2PRLog (Press Release) - Apr. 21, 2014 - SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- The Climate Change and Emissions…

Microbiology Students Awarded HHMI Fellowship
The Department of Microbiology would like to congratulate two of our outstanding graduate students on receiving the 2014-2015 OSU HHMI Med into Grad Scholars Program Fellowship.
The OSU HHMI…

Congratulations, Dr. Irina Artsimovitch!
The Department of Microbiology at Ohio State University, would like to congratulate Dr. Irina Artsimovitch on being elected to the American Academy of Microbiology!
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Ohio Branch ASM Meeting
The 2014 Ohio Branch ASM meeting will be held at Ohio State University on April 11-12!Department of Microbiology faculty member Dr. Joe Krzycki will be the keynote speaker this year as well. His…

Congratulations to Qi Liu!
Congratulations to Qi Liu, a graduate student in Dr. Kurt Fredrick's lab, for receiving a Presidential Fellowship following the Fall 2013 competition. The Presidential Fellowship, the highest…

How a ‘Mistake’ in a Single-Cell Organism is Actually a Rewrite Essential to Life
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A tiny but unexpected change to a segment of RNA in a single-cell organism looks a lot like a mistake, but is instead a change to the genetic information that is essential to the…

Congratulations Dr. Sandman!
Dr. Kaethe Sandman, in collaboration with Lisa Robinson, participated in an Ohio Environmental Council photography contest, in which she received a Merit award for the attached …