Tessa and Drs. Hale, McGraw, and Vodovotz received a President’s Research Excelleance Accelerator award to study SIV and the microbiome in wild and captive sooty mangabeys. Check out the news feature here.

Click here to check out a recording of the recent Microbiome Mini Symposium presented as part of the National Veterinary Summer Scholars programming.

Speakers featured during this Symposium:

Dr. Jenessa Winston, Ohio State University – Introduction to Microbiome Medicine

Dr. Craig Franklin, University of Missouri – Does my lab mouse’s microbiome matter? (26:50)

Dr. Linda Mansfield, Michigan State University – Can we engineer the gut microbiome to prevent asthma? (44:50)

Dr. Vanessa Hale, Ohio State University – Lorikeet Magic: Lorikeet enteritis and the microbiome (1:15:14) with an intro by Andrew McGlynn!

Been wondering which extraction method might work well for studying urinary tract microbiota? Urine luck! Check out Ryan Mrofchak’s article here.