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Molecular Genetics booth at COSI Science Festival
On May 6th, COSI hosted their annual science festival. Over 100 exhibitors hosted booths of hands on science activities, and Molecular Genetics was there to get people excited about the "FUN"…

Herbert W. Hoover Foundation grant to Sarah Ball
Congratulations to Sarah Ball (Molecular Genetics and Center for Life Science Education) who was recently awarded a grant entitled "SEA-Lab IPATH Phage Collaboration" from the Herbert W. Hoover…

Accelerator grant to Guramrit Singh and Venkat Gopalan
Guramrit Singh and Venkat Gopalan will serve as co-PIs on an accelerator grant from the Center for Cancer Engineering at OSU. These grants provide seed funding that enables and invigorates new…

The Art and Science of Plants presents Trichome Petting Zoo
Every other year, the Departments of Art and Molecular Genetics offer a course entitled "The Art and Science of Plants". Jointly taught by our own Iris Meier and Amy Young (Department of Art),…

Elizabeth Wagner highlighted in New York Times
The April 22nd edition of the New Your Times highlighted Elizabeth Wagner Reed (namesake of the Elizabeth Wagner Scholarship) as part of the "Overlooked" series of obituaries about remarkable…

Welcome to Danny Lam!
The Department is delighted to announce that Danny Lam joined us in March as a fiscal associate. Danny comes to us from the Brain and Spine Hospital and also brings fiscal associate experience…

Sharon Amacher wins Harlan Hatcher award
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Amacher is the 2023 recipient of the Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes a full professor who has a…

Catalyst funding to Patrice Hamel and colleagues
Congratulations to Patrice Hamel who is a co-investigator on a recently awarded President's Research Excellence Catalyst Award entitled "Artificial Metalloenzymes for the Sustainable Production of…

NIH funding to Guramrit Singh
Congratulations to Amrit Singh, whose NIH grant entitled "Post-transcriptional gene regulation by the exon junction complex" was recently funded for 5 years! Work in the Singh lab focuses on…