News

New Molecular Genetics Graduate Fellowships

Congratulations to these graduate students in the department who were recently awarded competitive fellowships:

Frederick Meckler (BSGP student, Christin Burd lab) was…

Rachel Belote named Melanoma Scholar

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Belote, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics, who has been selected as a FY25 Melanoma Academy Scholar through the Department of War Congressionally Directed…

Biological Sciences Greenhouse in the news

Did you know there’s a lush oasis at Ohio State University on 12th Avenue? The Biological Sciences Greenhouse on the roof of the 12th Avenue Garage contains hundreds of plants used for research…

Ruben Petreaca promoted!

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ruben Petreaca has been promoted to the position of Professor of Molecular Genetics. Dr. Petreaca teaches extensively at the Marion campus where his…

NSF CAREER grant to Shuai Huang

The Department is delighted to announce that Shuai Huang has been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, among the NSF’s highest honors for early-career…

Pilot Grant to Hay-Oak Park

Congratulations to Hay-Oak Park,who was recently awarded one of the inaugural Pilot Grants from the OSU Aging Initiative. Her proposal, entitled "Role of the Cdc42-Septin Axis in Cellular Aging"…

Congratulations to our Molecular Genetics Graduates

In the 2025/26 academic year about 45 undergraduates completed a BS in Molecular Genetics, and we were delighted to celebrate their accomplishments on Saturday before they formally became alumni…

Falkenthal Graduate Research Colloquium 2026

We had a wonderful Falkenthal colloquium with great talks from students and from our keynote speaker Dr Daniel Arango.

Awards at the end of the day included: second place early career talk…

MolGen represents at University Awards Night

The Department had a great night at the 2026 Ohio State University Faculty Awards!

This year we had four faculty recognized:

Amanda Bird (joint appointment in Human Sciences) and…