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Amacher and colleagues awarded 2025 George Streisinger Award
The International Zebrafish Society (IZFS), recently announced the 2025 George Streisinger Award Winners: the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Course Directors. This award recognizes senior…

Framework Grant awarded to David Snodgrass
Congratulations to Davis Snodgrass (Molecular Genetics' Greenhouse Coordinator) who recently earned a Framework Grant from the Integrated Physical Planning Liaison Group. These grants provide…

New graduate fellowships to Molecular Genetics students
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded new competitive graduate fellowships starting in Summer or Autumn of 2025:
Debadrita Paul (Singh lab) was awarded a Graduate…
Molecular Genetics department members recognized at local and international meetings
Congratulations to a number of members of the department who have recently earned accolades at local and international meetings:
At the…

Falkenthal Graduate Research Colloquium 2025
We had a wonderful Falkenthal colloquium with great talks from students and from our keynote speaker Pamela Wenzel.
Awards at the end of the day included: first place talk in the third…

Molecular Genetics at the Science Olympiad!
On Saturday April 26th, Ohio State University hosted the Ohio Science Olympiad State Tournament, where 80 teams of 6th through 12th graders who excelled in their regional competitions came to…

MolGen at the COSI Big Science Celebration!
Molecular Genetics joined many OSU and Columbus area groups that participated in the COSI Big Science Celebration on Saturday, May 3rd. We provided hands-on activities for the general public at…

Molecular Genetics represents among Goldwater Fellows
Four students from The Ohio State University have been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program in 2025, and astonishingly three of them have…

Belote wins Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Rachel Belote who was awarded the 2024 Medrano Young Investigator Award, PanAmerican Society of Pigment Cell Research (PASPCR). This award recognizes an early-career scientist…