Discovery Talks are the culmination of a month of TED-style training for experts in infectious disease at Ohio State. Their final projects, 10-minute TED-style talks, are available to view below.
Discovery Talk Videos
See what the Discovery Talks are all about by watching archived faculty and student Talks.
Become a Speaker
Ohio State faculty with expertise in microbiology or infectious diseases are eligible to participate in executive communications training culminating in a new Discovery Talks presentation and membership in the Discovery Talks speakers bureau.
Approach to Prevent EBV-Lymphoma in Transplant Recipients
Periodontitis Phenotypes: Same Players, Different Playgrounds
Taking Advantage of an Opportunity: Hydraulic Fracturing and Halanaerobium
Sugars as Drugs: Exploiting Sugar Metabolism in Bacteria
Tick Testing: A Simple Solution
Hit Me with Your Best Shot: Choosing the Right Targets for an Effective RVS Vaccine
Fighting Sepsis: A Phage-Centered Approach
Enhancing Public Safety by Controlling Salmonella in Poultry Using Small Molecule
Ornamental Plants: More Than Just A Pretty Face
Public Policy: Why Should Scientists Participate?
Flipping the Switch: Riboswitches as a Novel Target for Antibiotic Development
A Tale of Two Risks: Smoking, Diabetes and Gum Disease
A Public Health Perspective on Mycotoxins in Food Production
Putting Fungal Ecology into Context
Microbes, the Gut and the Autistic Brain
Targeting Pathogenic Biofilms Through Metal Drug Design
It's Not Just COVID: Immune Predictors of Enhanced Cardiometabolic Risk in COVID-19 Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes
Mitochondria and Macrophages: New Directions in Cystic Fibrosis Research
Taking a Detour: Bacterial Trafficking Patterns in Recurring Ear Infections
Malaria: Shaken, not Stirred
Legionella in Urban and Rural Environments
Phage Therapy: A Solution to Superbugs
Drug Discovery for a Neglected Tropical Disease
Ecological Approaches to Manage Soil Borne Diseases in Crops
Boosting Babies Immune Systems: Lessons from Mom
Can Stress Make You Sick?
Earth Observation for Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance
The Future of OPAT: Taking OPAT out of the Dark Ages and into the Light
The Humanity of One Health: Gender and Zoonotic Disease Exposure in Mpumalanga, South Africa
A New Take on an Old Disease: Studying TB in the Lung Microenvironment
Canine Leptospirosis in the United States
Hepatitis E: A Neglected Virus
