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📚 MMG Journal Club is back for Fall 2026!Read it. Question it. Discuss it.🗓 Mondays | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM📍 Nancy Randolph ...
09/11/2026

📚 MMG Journal Club is back for Fall 2026!

Read it. Question it. Discuss it.

🗓 Mondays | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
📍 Nancy Randolph Davis Building | Room 326

Come talk science, share ideas, and dig into recent advances in microbiology with the MMG community.
Bring a paper. Bring your questions. Join the conversation! 🔬

🍂 Fall Seminar Speaker Series | Student Research ShowcaseJoin us next week for the latest presentation in the Department...
09/09/2026

🍂 Fall Seminar Speaker Series | Student Research Showcase

Join us next week for the latest presentation in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Fall Seminar Speaker Series, featuring graduate student Swarnali Mukherjee from Dr. Burnap’s Lab.

🔬 “Understanding CO₂ Uptake and Proton Pumping in Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Complex 1”

📅 Monday, September 14
🕞 3:30–4:30 PM
📍 Classroom Building (CLB) 203

Come learn about exciting research happening right here in our department and support our graduate student researchers!

We hope to see you there!

The new academic year is underway, and our students are already making an impact!A team of OSU undergraduate students is...
09/03/2026

The new academic year is underway, and our students are already making an impact!
A team of OSU undergraduate students is helping unravel how bacteria detect and respond to light.
It is not only animals that can detect and respond to light: many bacteria contain photoreceptor proteins that allow them to do the same. However, in many cases it is not clear how bacteria respond when these photoreceptors detect light signals.
A team of nine undergraduate student researchers working in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Oklahoma State University under the guidance of PhD student Rosalie Dohmen and Professor Wouter Hoff used a combination of bioinformatics and experimental approaches to examine this question.
The team examined a total of 984 genes encoding photoreceptor proteins and found that many bacteria use light either to change their swimming behavior or to switch between solitary and biofilm lifestyles.
The work was made possible by support from the High-Performance Computing Center and the Microscopy Core Facility at OSU and was recently published in the Journal of Bacteriology.
Congratulations to the entire research team on this exciting publication!
🔗 Read the publication in the Journal of Bacteriology:
https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00216-25

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10/29/2025

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Rosalie Dohmen just won the 3rd prize Big City High Tech in the OSU Riata Center Business Plan Competition for her prese...
02/05/2025

Rosalie Dohmen just won the 3rd prize Big City High Tech in the OSU Riata Center Business Plan Competition for her presentation “Engineering enzymes to save the world and our economy” on her plan to start her biotech company Innozyme!

Congrats to Prof. Wouter Hoff who received the OSU College of Arts & Sciences 2024 Holistic Science Prize for outstandin...
12/04/2024

Congrats to Prof. Wouter Hoff who received the OSU College of Arts & Sciences 2024 Holistic Science Prize for outstanding achievements in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or holistic academic research for his work on updating Linnaean taxonomy in view of recent advances in microbial diversity. Below Dr. Hoff is working on cutting down a tree.

Congrats to the OKState student team that won a silver medal at Paris's iGEM (internationally Genetically Engineered Mac...
11/22/2024

Congrats to the OKState student team that won a silver medal at Paris's iGEM (internationally Genetically Engineered Machine) synthetic biology competition! - The interdisciplinary student club consists of members across the Colleges of Arts & Sciences (including our Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics!), Engineering, Ferguson College of Agriculture, Nutritional Sciences, Veterinary Sciences, and Business. They presented their project, "Healios," which aims to engineer a bacteriophage for photodynamic light therapy against Staphylococcus aureus.

Seeking an Adventure? Check out our new Study Abroad Summer Course exploring Geysers and Geothermal Energy in New Zealan...
11/21/2024

Seeking an Adventure? Check out our new Study Abroad Summer Course exploring Geysers and Geothermal Energy in New Zealand 🇳🇿🤠

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