Zach presented an outstanding Masters Defense today AND won the annual lab MVPoop award! Need to know anything about the canine urobiome Zach is the expert! Thesis: Evaluation of Methods for Enabling Genome-Resolved Metagenomics of the Urobiome
Committee members Dr. Brian Husbands, Dr. Virginia Rich, and Dr. Vanessa Hale celebrating Zach’s defense:
Madison Griffin is a Student Urinary Tract Program in Education and Research (SUPER!) scholar through Nationwide Children’s Hospital working in the Hale Lab this summer. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science with a minor in Spanish from The Ohio State University. This summer, she will focus on urothelial cell culture under various conditions. We’re so excited to have you join us Madison!
Hocking Hills Canopy Tour for the win!
Way to go Tessa, Zach, and Jordan for great poster presentations and special congrats to Zach for receiving a top ten poster honorable mention and flash talk!
OSU representing at the Midwest Microbiome Symposium!
Get ready…. Midwest Microbiome Symposium will be May 12-14, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio next year!
Dr. Tessa H.C. Wilde was hooded by 2 very proud advisors (Dr. Scott McGraw and Dr. Vanessa Hale) at the OSU graduation on May 5, 2024. Congratulations on an amazing accomplishment Tessa! 
Congratulations Dr. McGlynn! Excited that we will get to continue seeing you around as you being your Pathology Residency right here at OSU!
Tessa’s poster: Insights into SIV from Sooty Mangabey Saliva and Gut Microbes
Zach’s poster: Urobiome 101: Optimizing DNA extraction and host cell depletion to enable shotgun metagenomic studies on the urine microbiome
Great job with posters (and many thanks for also volunteering at the symposium!)
Congratulations also to Zach for winning a 2024 Center of Microbiome Science Trainee Travel Award!
Zach is awarded a highly competitive Fulbright to study at Royal Veterinary College in 2024-2025! He will be studying genomes of zoonotic bacteria.
Way to go Zach! We are thrilled for you!
Vanessa is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (pictured here with promoted faculty from all College of Vet Med departments)! Congrats to all!
