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Carnegie Lecture "Exploring the ocean multiverse with Tara Oceans" with Matt Sullivan, CoMS Director

Carnegie lecture in Washington, D.C., on YouTube (for Matt’s segment on viruses, advance to 39 minutes in – but we suggest you watch it all!)

A discussion on a project that represents the…

Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life

By Jeff Grabmeier

An overview of the state of imageomics was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science byTanya Berger-Wolf, faculty director of the Translational…

Viruses that can help ‘dial up’ carbon capture in the sea

By Emily Caldwell
Presented at the recent AAAS Annual Meeting, researchers begin applying lessons learned from the ocean to soils.

 

Microbiome Informatics coursework leads to viral dark matter of the rumen ecosystem paper

Ming Yan is a PhD Candidate in OSU’s College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science studying with Professor Zhongtang Yu. In fall 2021, Ming took one of the Microbiome Science Training…

Dr. Zakee Sabree

Dr. Zakee Sabree obtains $1.2M grant from NSF to identify gut bacteria that promote healthy animal development

Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology Associate Professor Zakee
L. Sabree has received a four-year $1.2M grant to identify gut bacterial
species that promote normal growth and…

Hale awarded grant to study bladder microbiome interactions with environmental chemicals

Vanessa Hale, MAT, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, was recently awarded a $803,895 K08 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute of…

Leishmaniasis life cycle

Ohio State News story: Digging deeper into how vaccines work against parasitic disease

Read about the disease leishmaniasis and vaccine development work in the Ohio State News story: 

Digging deeper into how vaccines work against parasitic disease (osu.edu)…

Glacial ice and viruses

Viruses in Arctic ice are unique and encode genes to keep microbes warm

By Olivier Zablocki

A recent study from postdoc Zhong et al. (Byrd Polar Center, OSU) examined the virus diversity and evolution from 40,000-year-old Arctic cryopeg brines. Such samples can reveal clues on past…

Be the model with cat, dogs, worms

OSU Veterinary Medicine Faculty Driving Advances in Microbiome Research for Disease Prevention and Treatment

Microbiome Modulation for Disease Outcomes research in Veterinary Medicine at OSU highlighted in AVMR article

A new Spotlight article in the American Journal of Veterinary Research…