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Black History Month: Dr. Ruth Moore
Did you know that the first African-American woman in the US to earn a PhD in natural sciences was Ruth Ella Moore? Did you know that she delivered her doctoral dissertation in 1933 at Ohio State…
Abhishek Mishra wins 2021 President's Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Abhishek Mishra, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar advised by Matt Anderson and Matt Sullivan is named President's Postdoctoral Scholar. The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has just announced the…
AMSL expands SARS-COV-2 testing
Read an article about the Applied Microbiology Services Laboratory (AMSL) - a joint, interdisciplinary lab operated by the Department of Microbiology and the Infectious…
Natacha Ruiz is elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Natacha Ruiz is among newly elected Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the ASM, are elected…
Matt Anderson wins an NSF CAREER award
Matt Anderson, assistant professor of microbiology and microbial infection & immunity, has been awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award! The CAREER award is a 5-year…
In memoriam: F. Robert (‘Bob’) Tabita
Fred Robert Tabita, Ohio Eminent Scholar, professor of microbiology at The Ohio State University, a key figure in the Microbial One-Carbon Metabolism community, and a 54-year member of the…
RNA polymerases hibernate together during tough times
Bacteria can grow fast when nutrients are plentiful or lie dormant for years when food is scarce. A recent study led by Markus Wahl and Irina Artsimovitch published in Nature Communications…
How Bacteria Avoid Making Unwanted RNA
An important gene expression process in bacteria seems to proceed differently than described in textbooks. This is the result of a study published in the journal Science by an…
Dr. Daniel Wozniak Named As AAAS Fellow
Of the 11 Ohio State scientists elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, 10 are from the College of Arts and Sciences.…