2009 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium
Agenda
Saturday, May 30 | |
Session I: Opening and invited oral session I (McPherson 1000) | |
09:00-09:15am | Welcome - the IGP directors |
09:15-09:45am | Engineering Ca2+ Binding Proteins to Study and Modulate Muscle Physiology Jonathan Davis Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University |
09:45-10:15am | Guises and uses of RNase P, an ancient catalytic ribonucleoprotein complex Venkat Gopalan Department of Biochemistry, OSU |
10:15-10:35am | Coffee break |
Session II: Contributed oral sessions I and II (McPherson 1000 and 1015) | |
10:35-10:50am | Mechanistic 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 |
10:35-10:50am | HIF-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 |
10:50-11:05am | Ligand-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 |
10:50-11:05am | An 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 |
11:05-11:20am | Crystal 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 |
11:05-11:20am | Inhibition 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 |
11:20-11:35am | Erk1/2 promote mouse endothelial cell proliferation and migration during embryonic angiogenesis Ruchika Srinivasan, Michael C.Ostrowski MCDB |
11:20-11:35am | Solution 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 |
11:35-11:50am | Zebrafish 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 |
11:35-11:50am | Combinatorial 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 |
11:50-12:05pm | The 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 |
11:50-12:05pm | Neural 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) | |
12:30-02:00pm | Lunch served in Vernier Commons |
12:30-01:45pm | Even-numbered posters present |
01:45-03:00pm | Odd-numbered posters present |
Session IV: Invited oral session II (McPherson 1000) | |
03:00-03:30pm | Brain tumor invasion and the role of the extracellular matrix Mariano Viapiano Department of Neurological Surgery |
03:30-04:00pm | Coffee break |
Session V: Contributed oral sessions III and IV (McPherson 1000 & 1015) | |
04:00-04:15pm | Regulating axonal and dendritic bundling through polarized targeting of L1-CAM. Chen Gu, Yuanzheng Gu, Joshua Barry Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program at OSU |
04:00-04:15pm | An 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 |
04:15-04:30pm | Collagen 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 |
04:15-04:30pm | HIV 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 |
04:30-04:45pm | BDNF 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 |
04:30-04:45pm | Mutations in 16S rRNA that confer defects in decoding Sean McClory, Daoming Qin, Josh Leisring, Kurt Fredrick Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University |
04:45-05:00pm | Title 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 |
04:45-05:00pm | Use 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 |
05:00-05:15pm | Expanded binding specificity of the human histone Huanyu Wang, Mark Parthun, Scott T. R. Walsh MCB |
05:00-05:15pm | Pyrrolysine analogs for protein labeling Xin Li, Tomasz Slawomir Fekner, Michael K. Chan Biophysics |
05:15-05:30pm | Molecular mechanisms in the repair of the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer Ali Hassanali, Dongping Zhong, Sherwin J Singer Biophysics, The Ohio State University |
05:15-05:30pm | Phosphorylation 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) | |
05:30-06:30pm | Mixer, awards, and opportunity to view posters |