Microbiology, broadly defined as the study of organisms invisible to the naked eye, is a modern science studied in the lab, in the environment and in silico. Students minoring in microbiology study microbiology in all its forms: from understanding how the billions of cells in our microbiomes keep us healthy; the role bacteria and phages play in the global carbon cycle and climate change; how genes and their expression are regulated at the molecular level; where antibiotic resistance comes from and how to fight it; to how pathogenic parasites, fungi, viruses and bacteria cause disease and how they can be treated. Microbiology at Ohio State epitomizes a modern interdisciplinary STEM field in every sense. (MICROBIO-MN)