News and Lab Updates


2024.11.15

Megan Hill passed her candidacy exam!!!! Megan did a great job presenting and defending her proposal, Having Cake and Eating It Too: How Human Gut Bacteroides Selfishly Maintain a Nutrient Pool. 

We're excited for you to catch up on your sleep and perform all of the facinating experiments you have planned! Congrats Megan!

2024.11.14

Matthew Estrada (Microbiology) successfully defended his Master's thesis;  Tolerogenic and Anti-inflammatory Responses to Bacterial Surface Glycans and Glycoconjugates from the Mammalian Gut Microbiota. Matthew is the first graduate student to defend from the Wesener Lab. Congrats Matthew!!

2024.10.23

Our first manuscript with a trainee from the lab has been published!! Really exciting project that culminated with Megan F. Hill learning all about carbohydrate biochemistry. Twitter description. The question: Can/how do bacteria in the gut respond to abiotic carbohydrate nutrients (i.e., no selective pressure)?

2024.10.01

Its another exciting Fall for incoming graduate student rotations. Riley Hershberger (OSBP) is currently in the Group and Angel Eisenhuth (Microbiology) will join us shortly!  


2024.07.26

Abigail Williams finished her Ohio-5 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience and gave a presentation about her Summer project. Have a great semester at College of Wooster Abigail and we hope you had a great summer!!

2024.07.21

Megan Hill presented her poser Glycoside Hydrolases from a Human Gut Bacteroides Degrade Abiotic Oligosaccharides at the Beneficial Microbes conference in Madison, WI. 

2024.06.01

Dr. Zuzana Palcekova, Ph.D., joins the lab as a Research Scientist bringing a wealth of knowledge on bacterial glycobiology and cell envelope biosynthesis!

2024.05.20

Abigail Williams (College of Wooster) has joined the group as an Ohio-5 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience scholar for the summer. Welcome Abigail!!



2024.04.12

Megan Hill was awarded a Center of Microbiome Science Travel Award to present her poster Glycoside Hydrolases from a Human Gut Bacteroides Degrade Abiotic Oligosaccharides at the Beneficial Microbes meeting in Madison, WI this Summer! Congrats Megan!

2024.03.27

Matthew Estrada (Microbiology) has joined the lab as a Master's degree candidate. Matthew is interested in how human gut microbes shape the host immune environment. Welcome Matthew!!!

2024.02.19

The Wesener Lab is growing! Jason Cantwell (Microbiology) and Tony DiCesare (Microbiology) have joined the Group as PhD students. Welcome!!!

2024.01.08

We welcome Annie Urban (Microbiology), Carter Dwyer (Microbiology), and James Alltop (OSPB) to the lab for a rotation.


2023.12.23

The Wesener Lab has been awarded a President's Research Excellence Accelerator Grant for our project, "A biochemical mechanisms for nutrient competition with the human gut microbiota".


2023.11.02

Lawrence presented a research poster at the Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival; 

Designing an ideal media to study bacterial polysaccharide cross-feeding in the human gut microbiota.

2023.10.23

We welcome Jay Cantwell (Microbiology) and Ana Arroyo Carriedo (Microbiology) to the lab for a rotation.


2023.09.11

We welcome Joshua Davis II (Microbiology) and Tony DiCesare (Microbiology) to the lab for a rotation.


2023.08.22

Our Research and Innovation Faculty Startup Award has been renewed by The Ohio State University Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge!!


2023.06.05

Karen Woolum has joined the lab as a lab manager and research associate. By training, Karen is an analytical chemist and is excited to apply her expertise to glycobiology and mass spectrometry. Welcome Karen!


2023.05.15

Our R00 grant entitled Human gut bacterial cell surface polysaccharides as a microbial nutrient source and target of immunoregulatory proteins shape gut microbiota structure and function has been funded by the NIH!



2023.05.12

Megan performed the first successful PCR and analysis by agarose gel in the Wesener Lab! Big thank you to Prof. Artsimovitch and her lab for the help!


2023.03.24

Megan Hill (Dept of Microbiology) joins the lab as a Graduate Research Assistant. Welcome Megan!


2023.03.13

Prof. Wesener presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology in Ventura, CA.


2023.03.10

OSU undergraduate Lawrence Mazzoni wins an Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) award for the Summer of 2023. Congrats Lawrence!


2023.01.01

The Wesener Lab officially opened at The Ohio State University in the Department of Microbiology and is affiliated with the Foods for Health Discovery Theme.


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