Ilana Richter successfully defended her culminating project toward her MPH/VPH! Her project was titled “Developing Standard Operating Procedures to Promote Human and Animal Health in an Ohio Primate Sanctuary.” Ilana developed over 65 pages of protocols for For the Love of Primates, a non-profit primate sanctuary in Ohio lead by Dr. Tessa Wilde. The protocols cover biosecurity, animal care welfare, and emergency preparedness.

Below: Dr. Tessa Wilde (left), Dr. Vanessa Hale (center), Ilana Richter (right)

Happy Holi! Dani Curcio (center) and Angela Scott (right) celebrate Holi with Asians in Vet Med.

Jordan Mason leads the Block O student cheering section for Men and Women’s Volleyball at OSU. His cheering lead our Men’s Team to victory at a recent game against the Purdue Ft. Wayne Mastodons. Go Jordan and go Men’s Volleyball!

Final Victory for Ohio State University (3 out of 5 games)! Final score of 5th game: 15 to 6 against the Purdue Ft. Wayne Mastodons.

Jaleea, principal oboist of the Ohio State University Collegiate Winds, wowed the audience (and her advisor and parents!) with several oboe solos during a recent concert at OSU. Way to go Jaleea!

Congrats Kilmer on a new publication featuring the honey bees of Brazil and their gut microbiota:

Comparing the impact of landscape on the gut microbiome of Apis mellifera in Atlantic Forest and Caatinga Biomes

Geographical locations of apiaries sampled in the Atlantic Forest and Caatinga biomes of Brazil.

Check out Andrea Aplasca’s new preprint on the hellbender skin microbiome:

Environment and weight class linked to skin microbiome structure of juvenile Eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) in human care

Drs. Vanessa Hale and Jenessa Winston and their microbiome research were recently highlighted by the College of Veterinary Medicine. See here for more.

Madison Griffin is a scientist and a dancer, and recently put on an amazing show with Dance Connection, an OSU student run dance group that does its own choreography. Bravo, Madison!

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Jaleea Gamble is a Stamps Eminence scholar at OSU. These scholars are awarded a full cost-of-attendance scholarship and the vision of this scholars program is to cultivate leaders that effect positive change within their professions and communities locally, nationally, and globally. So proud of you Jaleea!

Audra recently defended her PhD in Microbiology (OSU, PI: Matthew Anderson) studying the gut and upper airway microbiomes in several human populations. Her groundbreaking work optimizing approaches to study the gut eukaryome was recently published in mBIO. Audra is a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar and joins the Hale Lab to lead our work on host-microbe-chemical interactions in the gut and bladder. Welcome Audra! We’re so excited to have you join us!