2008 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium

 

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Number Presenter Title PI
82SungSuk Suh
A MicroRNAs control expression of critical proteins for multiple myeloma development Carlo M. Croce
111Ali Hassanali
A model for the water-amorphous silica interface: structure, dynamics and applications to biology. Sherwin Singer
109Rui Xiao
Title not published online Michael X. Zhu
19Bin Liu
Abnormal Ca2+ binding properties of the thin filaments caused by cardiomyopathy TnI mutations can be corrected through TnC mutagenesis Jonathan P. Davis
66Haiyan Liu
ACTH and cAMP Inhibit bTREK-1 K+ Channels Through A PKA Independent Mechanism John J. Enyeart
76Yu-Yu Liu
Akti-1/2 induced sodium iodide symporter degradation is mediated through both lysosomal and proteasomal pathways in thyroid cells Sissy M. Jhiang
67Manoj Nair
All Domains of Cry1A Toxins Insert into Insect Brush Border Membranes. Dr. Donald H.Dean
78Emilia Pavel Mahoney
Alterations in Wnt Signaling in Bone Neoplasia Driven by PKA Dysregulation Lawrence S. Kirschner
77Courtney Nicholas
Apigenin induces apoptosis in leukemia, and inhibits inflammatory response in vitro and in vivo through an inhibition of NFkB-p65 Andrea I Doseff
63Stephane Gabilly
CCS4, A Novel Assembly Factor Involved In The Redox Pathway For Cytochrome C Maturation Patrice Hamel
97Christopher McKee
Cellular cofactor LEDGF profoundly affects HIV-1 integrase subunit-subunit interactions Mamuka Kvaratskhelia
60Mom Das
Characterization of Bacterial ProRS And Its Editing Domain Homologues In Vitro And In Vivo. Karin Musier-Forsyth
43Ruisheng Jiang
Characterization of Desulfitobacterium hafniense Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase Joseph Krzycki
34Francisco Agosto
Title not published online Dr. Ramana V. Davuluri
54Marsha Lucas
Characterization of neural crest and lateral plate mesoderm development in zebrafish hatchback Paul Henion
73Erik Hill
Cocaine analogs identify unique binding interactions with monoamine transporters Howard Gu
52Myron Ignatius
colgate/hdac1 repression of foxd3 expression is required to permit mitfa-dependent melanogenesis. Paul D. Henion
20Cosmin Mihai
Collagen type I induces aggregation and internalization of preformed DDR1 dimers Gunjan Agarwal
121Jason Lavinder
Combinatorial biophysics: Library approaches to hydrophobic core repacking of the four-helix bundle protein Rop Thomas J. Magliery
2Katryna Cisek
Computational design of STAT3 inhibitors for targeted anti-cancer therapy Chenglong Li
114Yali Zhang
Construction and Characterization of ptb-deleted Mutant of Clostridium tyrobutyricum and its effect on Hydrogen Fermentation Shang-Tian Yang
12Miao Xiao
Crystallization of Cry δ-Endotoxins in Bicelles Donald H Dean Michael K Chan
44Yu Kay Law
Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer Formation in Oligonucleotides: Effects of Base Stacking and Base Pairing Professor Bern Kohler
107Payal Mehta
Differences in signaling properties of FcγRI and FcγRIIa in human monocytic cells Susheela Tridandapani
71Amanda Claggett
Disruption of Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) function by Respiratory Syncytial Virus Dr. Jeanette Marketon
93Cheryl Bolinger
Dissecting domains of RNA helicase A necessary for modulating translation of select lymphotropic retroviruses and cellular growth control genes Kathleen Boris-Lawrie
7Ian Kleckner
Donut dynamics: NMR studies of the ring-shaped 11-mer trp RNA-binding Attenuation Protein (TRAP) Mark Foster
90Matthew Murtha
Efficient Differentiation of ES Cells to Motorneurons by Developmental Transcription Factors Brian Kaspar
88Emilia Iscru
Title not published online Michael Xi Zhu
4Zoee Gokhale
Elucidating Mechanisms Of Primary Charge Separation In Photosystem II Dr. Richard T. Sayre
91Thomas Sherwood
Endogenous neuropeptides potentiate Acid-Sensing Ion Channel 1a current and acid-induced neuronal death Candice Askwith
53Xin Li
Ephrin signaling acts through Ras/MAPK to promote C. elegans germline cell death Helen M. Chamberlin
56Ruchika Srinivasan
Erk1 and Erk2 play a redundant role in mouse embryonic angiogenesis Michael C.Ostrowski
108Vidhya Ramachandran
Examining the relationship between the Ras/PKA and TOR signaling pathways controlling growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Dr. Paul K. Herman
27Yuh-Ying Yeh
Examining the role of Atg1 protein kinase activity in autophagy. Paul K Herman
35Shareef Dabdoub
Exploiting biological coherency in classification and segmentation William C. Ray
113Jianxin Sun
Exploration and Manipulation of Intrinsic Magnetism of Bacillus atrophaeus Professor Chalmers
112Nirut Pussadee
Title not published online Prof. Derek Hansford
16Jeff Anderson
Genetic Analysis of Specialized Tumor Associated Macrophages Michael Ostrowski
110Hassan Borteh
Gold and Ceramic Nanoparticles Patterning for Biosensing Applications Derek Hansford
6Sarah Javaid
hMSH2-hMSH6 Interaction with Mismatched DNA Dr. Richard Fishel
101Zetang Wu
HSV-1 encodes one or more silencing supressors Dr. Deborah S. Parris
25Huanyu Wang
Human sNASP is an H3/H4-Specific Histone Chaperone Mark Parthun
118Ravi Singh
Identification and Characterization of Factors Involved in Damage-induced Alternative Splicing of MDM2 Dr. Dawn S. Chandler
18Heather Edgerton
Identification and initial phenotypic analysis of mitotic regulatory proteins in Aspergillus nidulans Berl R. Oakley
1Betina McNeil
Title not published online Dr. Donald Dean
75Lyudmyla Khrapenko
Identification of cancer-related protein targets regulated by Microrna-21 in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tushar Patel
103Nadine Bakkar
Title not published online Denis Guttridge
102Jianchao Zhang
In vivo Antibody Gene Transfer Provides Protective Immunity Against Virulent Challenge in a Rhesus Macaque Infection Model K. Reed Clark
24Carlos Torres
Inotropic Mechanisms of Pyruvate Paul Janssen
23Rachel Stevens
Integrin engagement reduces APE1 co-immunoprecipitation with XRCC1 in hydrogen peroxide-treated murine lung endothelial cells Dale G. Hoyt
17Gulsen Colakoglu
Intermediate Filaments Exchange Subunits along Their Length and Elongate by End-to-End Annealing Anthony Brown
47Daomin Qin
Isolation and characterization of 16S rRNA mutations which will cause spurious initiation Kurt Fredrick
96Min Li
Kinetic Analysis of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Gene Expression in Cell Culture and Infected Animals Patrick Green
119Ross Wilson
Ligand-induced folding of the SMK box riboswitch observed using NMR Mark P. Foster
81Matthew Sobo
LLL-3, a novel chemotherepeutic agent, inhibits the ability of STAT-3 to transcribe its target DNA and leads to apoptosis Jiayuh Lin
79Sudarshan Seshadri
MAIL (IKappaBzeta) is a key upstream regulator of monocyte IL-6 production Mark D. Wewers
68Geeta Vittal Rao
Mapping functional epitopes in the human prolactin hormone Charles L Brooks
58Jessica Brown
Title not published online Zucai Suo
72Thomas Cremer
microRNA influence on host response to Francisella infection Susheela Tridandapani
80Nurettin Ilter Sever
MicroRNA-Based Gene Therapy for Prostate Cancer Carlo Maria Croce
105Christopher Henry
Minocycline suppression of microglial activation attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation, sickness behavior, and anhedonia Jonathan P. Godbout
9Ryan Pavlovicz
Modeling nicotinic acetylchoine receptors for computational inhibitor design Chenglong Li
40Irina Artsimovitch
Molecular mechanism of the antiterminator RfaH Irina Artsimovitch
48Sharnise Wilson
Mutational analysis of the lysine responsive L box leader RNA Dr. Tina Henkin
15Nael Alami
Title not published online Anthony Brown
13Yiren Xu
NMR Studies of protein interactions in Archaeal RNase P Mark P. Foster
31Aditi Kulkarni
Noninvasice functional assessment of ischemic heart after stem-cell therapy using MRI Periannan Kuppusamy
8In-Hee Park
Novel Ligand-Induced-Fit Simulation of Survivin Via Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics (REMD) and Receptor-Based Reverse Virtual Screening (VS) Chenglong Li
115Wen Yi
Oligosaccharide repeating unit substrates for probing bacterial polysaccharide biosynthesis Peng G. Wang
70Peng Wang
On the catalytic mechanism of the E.coli signal peptide peptidase A Ross Dalbey
36Tabatha Giesler
Optimizing and Validation Of a Massively Multiplexed Bead Array For Discovery (MMBAD) To Be Used In Identifying Functional Variants Wchich Affect Transcription In Artificial Systems. Christopher W. Bartlett
62Wen-I Luo
Overexpression, purification and characterization of human HscA James A. Cowan
92Chhavy Tep
Par3 mediated interaction between ErbB2 and p75 is necessary for BDNF-dependent Rac1 and JNK activation and myelination in the sciatic nerves Sung Ok Yoon
46Jiqiang Ling
Pathogenic mechanism of a human mitochondrial tRNAPhe mutation associated with MERRF syndrome Michael Ibba
22Samir Salama
PCNA Damage by Amino Acid Chloramines Robert M. Snapka
86Ran Zhao
PCNA, p53 and SV40 LT Antigen are Sensitive Targets of Singlet Oxygen Robert M. Snapka
33Xiangyu Yang
Postprocessing correction for quadratic B0 Inhomogeneity in R2* Measurement at Ultrahigh Field Michael V. Knopp
28Erik Zmuda
Potential roles of ATF3 in pancreatic islet transplantation Tsonwin Hai
106Xiaoying Liu
Pro-inflammatory TNFalpha limits TGFbeta1-dependent Smooth Muscle alpha-Actin Gene Expression in Human Pulmonary Myofibroblasts via MEK1 Modulation of the Egr-1 Transcriptional Repressor Arthur Strauch
61Jason Fowler
Probing Protein Conformational Change Within a DNA Polymerase Using Mass Spectrometry Dr. Zucai Suo
100Ryuta Takeda
Title not published online Biao Ding
117Michelle Corliss
Receptor/Sub-domain and Receptor/Receptor Interactions in the Extracellular Domain of the Human Prolactin Receptor Charles Brooks
69Fei Wang
Relevance of PrP-lipid interaction to prion biology: effects of lipid oxidation, metal ions, and PrP with mutation Jiyan Ma
39Hatice Gulcin Ozer
Residue Associations In Protein Family Alignments William C. Ray
83Hua Wei
Residues in transmembrane domain 2 and 3 of mouse norepinephrine transporter contribute to high affinity recognition of cocaine, norepinephrine and antidepressants Howard H Gu
89Reyna Martinez-De Luna
Title not published online Heithem M. El-Hodiri
120Mohamed Kabbout
Title not published online Dr Michael Ostrowski
51Yanjun Hou
Role of NF-κB/IκB Signaling System in Embryonic Angiogenesis Michael C. Ostrowski
59Huai-Chun Chen
Role of the inner FMN-binding loop in modulating the redox properties of P450BM-3 Richard P Swenson
5Yi Guo
Roles of the TPLH Network in Maintaining the Global Structure of Gankyrin Ming-Daw Tsai
21Michelle Monasky
Title not published online Paul M. L. Janssen
50Jona Hilario
Semaphorin 5A is a bifunctional axon guidance cue for axial motoneurons in vivo. Christine E. Beattie
38Tanping Li
Solvation of Trp in several proteins and the investigation of water in hydration layer Sherwin J.Singer
55Litty Paul
Title not published online Amanda Simcox
49Wei Liu
Structural basis for ligand-independent dimerization of human prolactin receptor Charles Brooks
14Jinjin Zhang
Structure of RecE Exonuclease Chuck Bell
65Xin Li
Structure of the Nitrosomonas europaea Rh protein Michael K. Chan
94Cody Buchmann
Suppression of transcriptional gene silencing by geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins David M. Bisaro
64Yoshio Ikeda
Title not published online Donald H. Dean
95Marcela P. Cataldi
The Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Terminal Hairpin Structure is a Specific Target for DNA Recombination through the ATM Pathway Douglas M. McCarty
26Ying Xu
The Effect of Baseline Frequency on Post-rest Potentiation in Mouse Papillary Muscles Paul M.L. Janssen
104Joshua Barry
The effects of overexpressing Methoprene-tolerant (Met) in Drosophila melaongaster. Thomas G. Wilson
11Jeffrey Voorhees
The Effects of Zinc on the Interaction Between Lactogenic Hormones and the Human Prolactin Receptor Charles L. Brooks
3Antje Feller
The many faces of the bHLH transcription factor R Erich Grotewold
87Kanika Ghai
The Notch Signaling Pathway influences Neuroprotective and Regenerative Properties of Muller Glia in a Chicken Retina. Andy J. Fischer
84Xin Yin
The roles of ATF3, an adaptive-response gene, in breast cancer development and metastasis Tsonwin Hai
116Wenpeng Zhang
The structure activity relationship study of α-Galactosylceramide Peng G. Wang
42Nicholas Green
The T box - Analysis of a Complex RNA Regulatory Element Tina M. Henkin
74Georgette N. Jones
Tissue-specific ablation of Prkar1a causes schwannomas by suppressing NF protein production Lawrence S. Kirschner
10John Shimko
Total synthesis of histone H3 acetylated at lysine 56 Jennifer J. Ottesen
57Sachin Teotia
Two putative poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases, RCD1 and SRO1, play important, partially redundant roles in Arabidopsis development Dr. Rebecca Lamb
32Weihong Qiu
Ultrafast quenching of tryptophan fluorescence in proteins: Interresidue and intrahelical electron transfer Dongping Zhong
30Ting-fang He
Ultrafast short-range electron transfer dynamics in biology Dongping Zhong
85Yanyan Zhang
Understanding the biology of SH2 domains via a combinatorial chemistry approach Dehua Pei
41Wen Yi Chen
Use of archaeal RNase P as a model system to dissect the roles of protein cofactors in aiding RNA catalysis Dr. Venkat Gopalan
99Priya Raja
Viral genome methylation is an epigenetic defense against geminiviruses D.M. Bisaro
98Shuiming Qian
Virus-host standoff: HIV-1 and host microRNA pathway Kathleen Boris-Lawrie