2009 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium

 

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Saturday, May 30
Session I: Opening and invited oral session I (McPherson 1000)
09:00-09:15amWelcome - the IGP directors
  
09:15-09:45amEngineering Ca2+ Binding Proteins to Study and Modulate Muscle Physiology
Jonathan Davis
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University
09:45-10:15amGuises and uses of RNase P, an ancient catalytic ribonucleoprotein complex
Venkat Gopalan
Department of Biochemistry, OSU
  
10:15-10:35amCoffee break
  
Session II: Contributed oral sessions I and II (McPherson 1000 and 1015)
10:35-10:50amMechanistic studies of the bypass of a bulky single-base lesion catalyzed by a Y-family DNA polymerase
Shanen M. Sherrer, Jessica A. Brown, Lindsey R. Pack, Vijay P. Jasati, Jason D. Fowler, Ashis K. Basu, Zucai Suo
Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
10:35-10:50amHIF-1α hinders healing of ischemic wounds by induction of miR-210.
Jaideep Banerjee, Sabyasachi Biswas, Sashwati Roy, Savita Khanna, Chandan K. Sen
MCDB program and the Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Wound Center and Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University
10:50-11:05amLigand-responsive Refolding of the SMK Box Riboswitch Observed Using NMR
Ross C. Wilson, Angela M. Smith, Tina M. Henkin, Mark P. Foster
Biochemistry Department, OSU
10:50-11:05amAn ets2-specific transcriptional program in tumor-associated macrophages promotes tumor metastasis
David A. Taffany, Tahera Zabuawala, Sudarshana M. Sharma, Anand Merchant, Thomas J. Rosol, Gustavo Leone, Kun Huang, Michael C. Ostrowski
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University
11:05-11:20amCrystal Structure of E. coli RecE Exonuclease Reveals a Toroidal Tetramer for Processing Double Stranded DNA Breaks
Jinjin Zhang, Xu Xing, Andrew B. Herr, Charles E. Bell
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University College of Medicine
11:05-11:20amInhibition of SHIP1 and C/EBPß in B-cell microRNA-155 transgenic mice contributes to B-cell leukemia.
Sukhinder K. Sandhu, Stephan Costinean, Esmerina Tilli, Rossana Trotta, David Ciarlariello, Danillo Perrotti, Paolo Neviani, Jason Harb, Carlo Croce
Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics MVIMG
11:20-11:35amErk1/2 promote mouse endothelial cell proliferation and migration during embryonic angiogenesis
Ruchika Srinivasan, Michael C.Ostrowski
MCDB
11:20-11:35amSolution Structure of an RNase P Protein-Protein Complex: RPP29-RPP21 from Pyrococcus furiosis
Yiren Xu, Carlos D. Amero, Dileep K. Pulukkunat, Venkat Gopalan, Mark P. Foster
OSBP, Department of Biochemistry
11:35-11:50amZebrafish ninja regulates craniofacial cartilage and enteric neuron development
Tamara Y. Robinson, Paul D. Henion
Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Ohio State University
11:35-11:50amCombinatorial biophysics: Library approaches to the 'inverse' protein folding problem using the small well-behaved model protein Rop
Jason J. Lavinder, Thomas J. Magliery
Ohio State Biochemistry Program - The Ohio State University
11:50-12:05pmThe Site of the Tricopper Cluster in the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase (pMMO)
Marianne M. Lee, I-Jui Hsu, Feng-Chun Lo, Jeff C. Lai, Sridevi Ramalingam, Kok Yaoh Ng, Terra Y. Lu, Steve S.F. Yu, Michael K. Chan, Sunney I. Chan
Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University
11:50-12:05pmNeural crest specific ablation of Prkar1a leads to perinatal lethality resulting from malformations of the craniofacial bones.
Georgette N. Jones, Zhirong Yin, Michelle M. Carlton, Kimerly A. Powell, Michael B. Weinstein, Lawrence S. Kirschner
Mol. Virology, Immunology, and Mol. Genetics, Ohio State University
  
Session III: Lunch and poster session (Physics Research Building)
12:30-02:00pmLunch served in Vernier Commons
12:30-01:45pmEven-numbered posters present
01:45-03:00pmOdd-numbered posters present
  
Session IV: Invited oral session II (McPherson 1000)
03:00-03:30pmBrain tumor invasion and the role of the extracellular matrix
Mariano Viapiano
Department of Neurological Surgery
  
03:30-04:00pmCoffee break
  
Session V: Contributed oral sessions III and IV (McPherson 1000 & 1015)
04:00-04:15pmRegulating axonal and dendritic bundling through polarized targeting of L1-CAM.
Chen Gu, Yuanzheng Gu, Joshua Barry
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program at OSU
04:00-04:15pmAn Arabidopsis dsRNA binding protein partners with DCL3 in chromatin methylation-based defense against geminiviruses
Priya Raja, Jamie N. Wolf, Isaac Heard, Brad C. Sanville, David M. Bisaro
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
04:15-04:30pmCollagen XIXa1 functions in zebrafish motor axon guidance.
Jona D. Hilario, Chunping Wang, Christine E. Beattie
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
04:15-04:30pmHIV Gag protein undergoes a conformational switch mediated by RNA and membrane interactions during virus assembly
Christopher P. Jones, Siddhartha A. K. Datta, Ioulia Rouzina, Alan Rein, Karin Musier-Forsyth
1Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
04:30-04:45pmBDNF promotes myelination by activating ErbB2 in Schwann cells
Chhavy Tep, Mi Lyang Kim, Allison S. Limpert, Jonah Chan, Bruce Carter, Sung Ok Yoon
OSBP/OSU
04:30-04:45pmMutations in 16S rRNA that confer defects in decoding
Sean McClory, Daoming Qin, Josh Leisring, Kurt Fredrick
Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Payal Mehta, Jonathan P Butchar, Anne-Sophie Wavreille, Steven Justiniano, Jianhuan Yu, Michael A. Caligiuri, Richard Sesseler, Richard Burry, Susheela Tridandapani
Internal Medicine, OSUMC
04:45-05:00pmUse of archaeal RNase P as a model system to elucidate the functional interplay among subunits in a catalytic RNP complex
Wen-Yi Chen, Yiren Xu, I-Ming Cho, Mark P. Foster, Venkat Gopalan
Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology Program
05:00-05:15pmExpanded binding specificity of the human histone
Huanyu Wang, Mark Parthun, Scott T. R. Walsh
MCB
05:00-05:15pmPyrrolysine analogs for protein labeling
Xin Li, Tomasz Slawomir Fekner, Michael K. Chan
Biophysics
05:15-05:30pmMolecular mechanisms in the repair of the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer
Ali Hassanali, Dongping Zhong, Sherwin J Singer
Biophysics, The Ohio State University
05:15-05:30pmPhosphorylation of the activation loop in Atg1 is essential for its kinase activity and autophagy.
Yuh-Ying Yeh, Kristie Wrasman, Paul K. Herman
Program in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
  
Session VI: Mixer and poster session (Physics Research Building)
05:30-06:30pmMixer, awards, and opportunity to view posters