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:
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:
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!
Jaleea Gamble is a first-year undergraduate student with an Associate of Science Degree from Columbus State Community College. Jaleea is a Stamps Eminence Scholar within the University Honors Program and is pursuing a double major in Animal Sciences and Music on the Pre-Veterinary track. In the lab, Jaleea will be studying the gut-bladder axis and how conditions in the gut may influence urinary tract infections in humans and in animals. We’re so glad to have you joining us Jaleea!
Madison Griffin did an excellent job presenting her summer research on urothelial cell culture at the SUPER (Student Urinary Tract Program in Education and Research) Summer Scholar Poster Session at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Great job Madison, and we’re so excited to have you continue in the lab this year!
Look at these cute little HBLAK urothelial cells Madison is growing!
