On April 10, 2024, Dr. Tessa Wilde brilliantly defended her PhD and received the 2023-2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Department of Anthropology!
Dissertation: Monkeys and Microbes: Examining the gut and oral microbiome in SIV-infected sooty mangabeys
Dr. Wilde with her co-advisors, Dr. Scott McGraw (Anthropology) and Dr. Vanessa Hale (Veterinary Preventive Medicine).
Tessa with partner, Amy and son, Mateo
We are so proud of you Tessa!
Jordan’s poster: Fecal and urine microbiota of pet dogs vary with breed and sex
Zach poster: Urobiome 101: Optimizing DNA extraction and host cell depletion to enable shotgun metagenomic studies on the urine microbiome
Great job presenting Zach and Jordan!
Congrats Tessa! So proud of all of your amazing accomplishments – including founding and serving as Executive Director of the non-profit, For the Love of Primates, working as a veterinary technician, teaching, being super-mom to super-Mateo, and all while getting a PhD!
Dr. Andreas Eleftheriou defended his Integrative Learning Experience as the final requirement of his Masters of Public Health. Way to go Andreas!
The topic: Identifying potential drivers of non-lead ammunition use: A survey of deer hunters in New York State
Photo: Lead poisoning in a bald eagle
The Hale Lab was ON POINT with their lab Valentine’s Day cards…
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Check out this Tessa’s new publication testing field-friendly methods for preserving RNA viruses, like SIV, in primate feces. Co-authors on the work are Rajni Shukla, Christopher Madden, Yael Vodovotz, Amit Sharma, and Vanessa Hale. Way to go all!
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00484-23
Zach features work that he and Angela Scott conducted on optimizing approaches to studying the canine urobiome at the annual Veterinary Cancer Society meeting in Reno, Nevada.
He also won $1.70 at the slot machines! (But we won’t say how much he lost.)
Hello, lovely Reno!
Tessa Wilde is this year’s Hale Lab MVPoop winner! The MVPoop mug of glory was passed on from Angela Scott (2022’s MVPoop winner) to Tessa in recognition of Tessa’s huge personal and professional accomplishments this year, from becoming a mom, to winning the Presidential Fellowship, to winning several awards and funding in relation to Tessa’s non-profit, For the Love of Primates. What a year! Great job Tessa!
2022 MVPoop award Winner, Angela Scott, who stepped in and stepped up as our lab manager and has demonstrated excellence in science and in keeping our lab on top of things! 
Zach Lewis was featured in the Infectious Diseases Institute Newsletter for receiving a Trainee Enrichment Award. Tessa Cannon Wilde was featured in The Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper, for her recent purchase of 60 acres of land in Crooksville, OH, which will become the future home of a primate sanctuary for retired laboratory monkeys. Learn more about Tessa’s nonprofit, For the Love of Primates, here.
The One Welfare and Sustainability Center (OWSC) launch included a day of presentations featuring students, faculty, and community partners. The Center is supported by Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Zach Lewis shared collaborative research examining the alligator gut microbiome and gastrointestinal health of farmed alligators. These delicious cookies were part of the sweet celebration highlighting an intersection of passions – LVMH and OSU – around and sustainability and animal health.
