Red 🔴, Blue 🔵 and….Green 🟢? Just in time for July 4, check out our latest publication on the design and evaluation of new fluorescent strains of oral streptococci to use in microscopy applications, such as mixed-species biofilms journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Kaspar Lab at @aadocr.bsky.social #AADOCR2025 in New York City!!

We are excited and thankful to have received a NoA today from NIDCR on a new R03 examining nutritional niches within oral biofilms. This grant was reviewed last summer and went through council in the fall. Encouraging to see new grants being released given the current circumstances #NIH #OralHealth

Congrats to Izzy Williams and Allen Choi who presented today at The Ohio State Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Both are seniors, and both are first authors on recent lab publications. Allen will be a D1 at OSU next fall, Izzy looking to apply to dental schools in 2026.

Our award winners from Research Day 2025: - Nicole Fleming: Alumni Achievement - Robbie Bettinger: Alumni Merit, 3rd place DDS - Jarett Pittman: Dentsply SCADA, 2nd place DDS - Jacob Harris: 1st place PhD - Lab: Basic Science Paper of the Year for journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Congrats!

Kaspar Lab The Ohio State University College of Dentistry Research Day 2025!

Big next few weeks for the lab, showcasing our research - out now in @asm.org AEM is our new study showing a specific strain of S. mitis, ATCC 49456, effectively inhibits caries pathogen biofilm formation though high levels of hydrogen peroxide production! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Hello Bluesky! Check out our latest research detailing the design, development and validation of new fluorescent strains of oral streptococci! This includes BFP, GFP and RFP variants of S. gordonii, S. mutans and S. sanguinis, used to make our avatar image! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...