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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…
Dr. Justin North's proposal titled Artificial Metalloenzymes for the Sustainable Production of Renewable Fuels: Conversion of Solar Energy and Plant Waste to Hydrogen and Ethylene by…
The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates the undergraduate researchers who received awards at the 2023 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. 22 students from 14…
Staci McKinniss has been selected as a winner of the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award! Winners are nominated by departments and are selected by the ASC Staff Advisory Committee…
Jiawei Xing received the BLAST Board of Directors Award for an Outstanding Talk by a graduate student at the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST) meeting in Charleston, SC, Jan 19,…
Article by Molly Petrina Published by The Lantern 10/11/2022
Ohio State combined forces with international researchers to combat the spread of a parasitic disease through a virtual Tropical…
Article by Emily Caldwell (caldwell.151@osu.edu)
Published on Ohio State News 10/18/2022
The types of ocean bacteria known to absorb carbon dioxide from the air require more energy – in…
Dr. Anderson has been granted the CZI/NASEM Science Diversity Leadership Award! CZI partnered with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to launch the Science Diversity…
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The College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Microbiology at The Ohio State University invite applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant…
Description: The Department of Microbiology (microbiology.osu.edu) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the…
Check out the two new articles below that feature Professor Matt Sullivan and the work he is doing for Ocean Virome.
"Why the ocean virome matters"
https://www.nature.com…
Congratulations and pleased to announce four new faculty appointments:
Steven Carlson, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Lubomira Cubonova, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Tammy…
Incoming Fall 2022 graduate class
We welcome 13 graduate students who will join us in August 2022!
Afaf Abdelrahim
Taylor Chermak
Igor Jouline, the Rod Sharp Professor of Microbiology, has been selected to serve as an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer for a two-year term, effective…
Please view the Tara Oceans Consortium paper on the ocean microbiome and its biosynthetic potential that Professor Matthew Sullivan contributed on.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586…
By: Ann C. Gregory
Being a postdoctoral researcher opens many doors, but it can also bring feelings of loneliness and uncertainty, which are exacerbated during a pandemic. Making career…
Study of organisms in the sea identifies 5,500 new species
By: Emily Caldwell (caldwell.151@osu.edu)
Ohio State news
Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a…
Findings in mice validate CRISPR technology for leishmaniasis vaccine
by: Emily Caldwell, OSU News
The parasites that cause a disfiguring skin disease affecting about 12 million…
Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same way that bacteria do.
The finding could lead to enhancements of…
Daniel J. Wozniak, PhD, professor and vice chair of Microbial Infection and Immunity at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and professor of Microbiology in the College of Arts &…
Congratulations to Dr. Kurt Fredrick as he has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, is an honorific leadership group…
We, the Department of Microbiology within the College of Arts and Sciences, honor the legacy of our alumnus Dr. Ruth Moore, the first African American in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in…
The Microbiology Scholarship Application window is now open! Applications will be accepted until March 7, 2022 at 10:00pm for this cycle.
In order to be eligible to apply,…
While the world has spent the past two years focused on combating COVID-19, Dr. Abhay Satoskar, Ph. D., at the Ohio State University and his team of research scientists have been developing a…
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The College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Microbiology (microbiology.osu.edu) and the Foods for Health Discovery Theme (https://foodsforhealth.osu.edu/) at…
Matthew Sullivan has been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from Clarivate.
The list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field…
Zeroing in on an Effective Vaccine for Leishmaniasis | American Association for the Advancement of Science (aaas.org)
While the world has spent the past two years focused on combating COVID…
$3.5 million gift funds new CFAES endowed chair in food science; Ahmed Yousef named holder
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ahmed E. Yousef, Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental…
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The nationally recognized Ohio State University (OSU) Department of Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track faculty at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates…
Bioproduct research led by Justin North receives $1.5 million grant from Department of Energy
A team of scientists led by Justin North, a research scientist in…
2021 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award winners
Matthew Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology in the College of Arts and Sciences and…
Congratulations to Matthew Anderson who was mentioned in The New York Times!
The name of Matt's workshop was Indigidata. It was run in conjunction with the Native Biodata Consortium. The…
Kurt Fredrick, professor in the Department of Microbiology, has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term, effective July 1. Fredrick’s research leverages…
Congratulations to Benjamin Warner on being selected as one of the 2021-2022 Center for RNA Biology Graduate Fellows!
Benjamin is currently a Microbiology PhD student with Dr. Kurt Fredrick…
Congratulations to Dr. Abhay Satoskar on being awarded a 2021 Distinguished Scholar Award!
Full awards notice below.
Six faculty receive 2021 Distinguished Scholar Awards
Jared Ellenbogen is the winner of the 2020-2021 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, which is Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving as…
A News piece in Nature entitled "How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb" describes genomics studies led by our own Virginia Rich and her collaborators from the EMERGE…
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, 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…
Read an article about the Applied Microbiology Services Laboratory (AMSL) - a joint, interdisciplinary lab operated by the Department of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Institute. Check…
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, 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 grant…
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…
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…
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
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.
Election as a…