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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 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…

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)

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

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…

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…

CoMS Affiliates in New Paper

Congratulations to the following CoMS affiliates on a new paper examining interactions between protists, cyanobacteria and viruses!