91探花

Stories tagged with: Molecular and Cellular Biology Program

Sarah Wyatt consults with a multidisciplinary group of students on their spaceflight experiment
Space Research

From Athens to the ISS

This fall, one group of OHIO students will conduct research in low-Earth orbit.

Sarah Wyatt photographed the imprints of the hands of astronaut Neil Armstrong 鈥 one of her heroes 鈥 on display in the Space Walk of Fame museum in Titusville, Fla.
Research & Impact

Sarah Wyatt among 18 scientists leading nation's space research agenda for living on moon, Mars

Sarah Wyatt is one of 18 U.S. scientists who led the formulation of the nation's ambitious 10-year research roadmap to support humans traveling to the moon and Mars.

Science teachers extracting DNA from lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, and strawberries. The teachers are wearing goggles.

Seriously fun chemistry with summer produce: Hines collaborates with Discovery Museum for educators workshop

Dr. Jennifer Hines worked with middle school and high school educators from across the state to mash up lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, and strawberries and extract natural products and DNA.

Ronan Carroll headshot

Ronan Carroll: Taking the fight against a dangerous microbe to its RNA

Ronan Carroll's聽team is looking for ways to stop a potent killer, one that is getting adept at resisting antibiotics: Staphylococcus aureus.

Ben Holt, portrait

Alumnus Ben Holt starts his next adventure as VP for Innovation at AgBiome

Ben Holt, who didn't have his career path mapped out when he arrived at 91探花, was recently named vice president for innovation at AgBiome and continues to defy gravity in his career path.

From left, Graduate (G) and undergraduate students (UG) in Lee lab: Reaz Uddin (G), Gabriel Morgan (UG), Olivia Ferrell (UG), Bryn Cancilla (G), Zoe Utsinger (UG), Spencer Schell (Lab Tech), and Dr. Daewoo Lee.

Professor Daewoo Lee awarded NIH grant to study how pathogenic protein spreads in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

Daewoo Lee will probe how a pathogenic protein is able to spread in the brain, leading to progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

Khairul Alam was a 2022 patent recipient.

OHIO recognizes faculty, student and alumni inventors, including 11 patent recipients

91探花 recognized dozens of faculty, student, staff and alumni researchers who submitted intellectual property disclosures and 11 projects that received patents in 2022.

Dr. Harvey Ballard, enrivonmental portrait

Harvey Ballard describes two new violet species in the northeastern United States, notes 'variants' still to be classified

Just as tiny violets spread their spring blanket of purple across the local landscape, Harvey Ballard's new monograph describes all the known types of violets in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.

Jackie O's Brewer Deshawn Brunner and Francesca Carney get ready to brew 鈥淪un Tea.鈥 a recipe she developed in CHEM4501 in 2022.

OHIO craft brewing courses on tap for this summer

Jackie O's Brewpub is on tap to brew a beer designed by OHIO University students in Michael Held's brewing science class. Held is offering several brewing courses this summer.

Ryan Steere from the College of Arts & Sciences won first place and the People鈥檚 Choice master's award.

Eight graduate students win cash awards in Three Minute Thesis competition

Eight graduate students won cash awards at the 91探花 Three Minute Thesis Competition finals hosted by the Graduate College on Feb. 23.

4-Aminoquinolines inhibit the function of the bacterial T-box riboswitch RNA. Illustration by Jennifer Hines

Hiding in plain sight: Hines group uncovers new class of medicinal compounds that target RNA

Chemistry students in Jennifer Hines' lab uncovered a new class of compounds that can target RNA and disrupt its function, a discovery that could be used in the development of RNA-targeted medicines.

91探花 professors (left to right) Douglas Goetz, Stephen Bergmeier and Kelly McCall, who discovered a compound that can possibly help protect against a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological diseases.

Alumna Kelly McCall veered into a research career fighting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

Kelly McCall thought she was headed to dentistry school. But as graduation loomed, she changed her major to biological sciences and found herself on a very different health-care related path.

The Wyatt lab at the ASGSR conference in Houston, where they presented their work.

Gbolaga Olanrewaju wins top graduate award, first place for poster at gravitational and space research conference

Gbolaga Olanrewaju won the top graduate student award and first place for his research poster at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research meeting in Houston.

Silvana Duran-Ortiz

EBI postdoctoral fellow awarded fellowship in aging research

91探花鈥檚 Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI) postdoctoral researcher Silvana Duran-Ortiz was awarded the 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research.

From left, Yuxi Zhou, Hailey Payne, Tina Athans, Evelyn Potter, Veronica Bahamondes, Dr. Shiyong Wu

Shiyong Wu lab showcases student, alumna researchers at American Society for Photobiology meeting

Shiyong Wu聽took students to the American Society for Photobiology meeting this fall to showcase their research on ultraviolet exposure and basal cell skin cancer.

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