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Researchers uncover a "nightly dance" in the Sargasso Sea, revealing that marine viruses are most active in the dark when infecting…

The One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit brought together more than 40 leading microbiome experts and stakeholders from all sectors representing 16 countries, with the goal of catalyzing…

Study explores ecological effects of phage resistance in marine setting.

🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust…

We welcome research on microbiomes in any ecosystem context (natural environments, plant/animal/human hosts, or engineered), organismal focus (microbial eukaryote, prokaryote, virus, or…

Microbes are crucial for Earth's biogeochemical cycles, and this study by the EMERGE Biology Integration Institute demonstrates the significant impact of genome-inferred microbial traits on…

Matthew Sullivan has been selected as one of the 25 awardees in the Joint Genome Institute’s FY25 Community Science Program Annual Call for Sullivan Lab's Ecogenomics and biogeochemical…

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) have recently been introduced into cancer therapy as a way to make treatment-resistant melanoma patients responsive again to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)…

Explore groundbreaking research from Ohio State University CoMS members where scientists reveal how viruses trapped in glacier ice adapt to extreme climates. This insight enhances our understanding…

Learn more about CoMS Executive Advisory Committee member Jenessa Winston's work exploring gut microbe-based therapies!

Researchers at The Ohio State University have made an intriguing discovery: low-phosphate ocean conditions significantly alter how viral infections impact host bacteria. This finding sheds light…

Congratulations to Matt Sullivan, CoMS Director for 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows election!

Ohio State University's Center of Microbiome Science (CoMS) is pleased to announce Matt Sullivan, CoMS Director has received a Fulbright Award this year to work in France.

Ohio State University's Center of Microbiome Science (CoMS) is pleased to announce that Jonathan Jacobs, CoMS Executive Advisory Committee member received a Fulbright Awards to Uruguay.

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New research led by Zhi Ping Zhong, research associate at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, underscores the importance of understanding viral contributions to methane metabolism in…

Carnegie lecture in Washington, D.C., on YouTube (for Matt’s segment on viruses, advance to 39 minutes in – but we suggest you watch it all!)

A discussion on a project that represents the…

An overview of the state of imageomics was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science byTanya Berger-Wolf, faculty director of the Translational…

Presented at the recent AAAS Annual Meeting, researchers begin applying lessons learned from the ocean to soils.

Ming Yan is a PhD Candidate in OSU’s College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science studying with Professor Zhongtang Yu. In fall 2021, Ming took one of the Microbiome Science Training…

Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology Associate Professor Zakee
L. Sabree has received a four-year $1.2M grant to identify gut bacterial
species that promote normal growth and…

Vanessa Hale, MAT, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, was recently awarded a $803,895 K08 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute of…

Read about the disease leishmaniasis and vaccine development work in the Ohio State News story:

Digging deeper into how vaccines work against parasitic disease (osu.edu)

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A recent study from postdoc Zhong et al. (Byrd Polar Center, OSU) examined the virus diversity and evolution from 40,000-year-old Arctic cryopeg brines. Such samples can reveal clues on past…

Microbiome Modulation for Disease Outcomes research in Veterinary Medicine at OSU highlighted in AVMR article

A new Spotlight article in the American Journal of…

Congratulations to the following CoMS affiliates on a new paper examining interactions between protists, cyanobacteria and viruses!