Oklahoma State University Microbiology Department

10/29/2025

Seeking an Adventure? Check out our new Study Abroad Spring and Summer Courses exploring Geysers and Geothermal Energy in Iceland and New Zealand 🌋🦠🗻✈️🤠

06/18/2025

Big Congrats to Rosalie Dohmen and Wouther Hoff for their publication "Interfacial Photogating of Graphene Field-Effect Transistor for Photosensory Biomolecular Detection" in Advanced Electronic Materials!!! https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aelm.202400716

06/18/2025

Congratulations, Wouter, for publishing in the Journal of Molecular Biology, "The evolution and implications of the inosine tRNA modification"! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283625002530

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!

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.

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.

11/21/2024

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

11/17/2024

Congrats to Rosalie Dohmen and Wouter, who were just selected to participate in the NSF National I-Corps program to investigate the commercialization potential of the protein engineering technology that Rosalie developed during her PhD research project.

11/07/2024

Congratulations! As a result of an international collaboration, the Hoff lab just published a paper in Cell Stem Cell:

"Photo-tunable hydrogels reveal cellular sensing of rapid rigidity changes through the accumulation of mechanical signaling molecules"

While cell mechanotransduction is traditionally understood under static mechanical conditions, Cao and colleagues reveal how cells sense cyclic changes in extracellular matrix rigidity by accumulating signaling proteins, which enhance cellular traction forces. These findings have wide-ranging implic...