Congratulations to Sarah Ball (Molecular Genetics and Center for Life Science Education) who  grant entitled "SEA-Lab IPATH Phage Collaboration" from the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation! Building was recently renwed. The grant builds on her long term involvement in the Science Education Alliance (SEA) PHAGES CURE that allows students to isolate bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) from soil samples collected from locations around campus, in Columbus, and beyond. In cooperation with the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), co-directed by Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, this project will allow OSU student to identify and source phages with potential to be used in phage therapies that target drug resistant bacteria. Students will collect soil and water samples from Stark County, Ohio, farms which typically contain bacterial pathogens that infect livestock and humans, ad will isolate phage from the samples which will be shipped to the IPATH lab where they will be sequenced.