2011 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium

 

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Monday, May 2
Session I: Opening and invited oral session (Cartoon meeting room)
08:50-09:00amWelcome - the IGP directors
  
09:00-09:20amNew roles for an ancient enzyme: tRNA 5'-end maintenance by Thg1 family enzymes
Jane Jackman
Department of Biochemistry
09:20-09:40amFamilial and Sporadic ALS Derived Astrocytes Confer Toxicity to Motor Neurons
Brian K. Kaspar
Pediatrics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
09:40-10:00amEngineering Ca2+ binding proteins to correct cardiac muscle diseases
Jonathan P. Davis
Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University
Session II: Plenary contributed session (Cartoon meeting room)
10:00-10:15amDevelopment of a mouse model to study SMN splicing and replacement therapy
Thomas W. Bebee, Jordan T. Gladman, Dawn S. Chandler
Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
10:15-10:30amMechanistic insights into 3’--5' nucleotide addition by eukaryotic tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1)
Brian Smith, Jane Jackman
Department of Biochemistry Ohio State University
  
10:30-10:50amCoffee break
  
10:50-11:05amTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Ryan Pavlovicz, Brandon Henderson, Andrew Bonnell, R. Thomas Boyd, Dennis McKay, Chenglong Li
Biophysics, Ohio State University
11:05-11:20amChromatin Ubiquitination and Transcriptional Memory
Mansi S. Arora, Jie Zhang, Gulcin H Ozer, Huiwen Liu, Kun Huang, Jeffrey D, Parvin
Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
11:20-11:35amEngineering proteins from sequence statistics
Brandon J. Sullivan, Venuka Durani, Thomas J. Magliery
The Ohio State Biochemistry Program
11:35-11:50amThe “Tau Code” of Alzheimer’s Disease
Kristen E. Funk, Stephani N. Thomas, Yunhu Wan, Zhongping Liao, Peter Davies, Jeff Kuret, Austin J. Yang
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University
  
Session III: Lunch and poster session (Great Hall meeting room)
12:00-01:00pmBoxed lunches
12:30-01:30pmOdd-numbered posters present
01:30-02:30pmEven-numbered posters present
  
Session IV: Parallel contributed sessions I&II (Cartoon meeting room)
03:00-03:15pmEmergence of a plastid-localized, disulfide-reducing pathway required for cytochrome c assembly.
Stephane Gabilly, Mohamed Karamoko, Vincent Corvest, Sabeeha Merchant, Patrice Hamel
MCDB, Departments of Molecular Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
03:00-03:15pmSome β-Apocarotenoids function as antagonists of Retinoic Acid Receptors by directly competing at the ligand binding site
Abdulkerim Eroglu, Sureshbabu Narayanasamy, Robert W. Curley, Earl H. Harrison
Department of Human Nutrition/Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:15-03:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Bryon Mahler, Soojin Lee, Jodie Toward, Kiran Doddapaneni, Graeme Wistow, Justin Wu
Biochemistry
03:15-03:30pmProteomic analysis of the dystrophin-associated protein complex reveals differences between cardiac and skeletal muscle: implications for muscular dystrophies.
Eric K. Johnson, Liwen Zhang, Alistair Phillips, Marvin E. Adams, Stanley C. Froehner, Kari Green-Church, Federica Montanaro
Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University
03:30-03:45pmThe PI3K/Akt Signaling Axis Modulates Radioactive Iodide Influx and Retention in Thyroids of Mice Harboring Thyroid Tumors
Michael P. Brandt, Daphne R. Pringle, Motoyasu Saji, Samantha K. McCarty, Matthew D. Ringel, Lawrence S. Kirschner, Sissy M. Jhiang
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
03:30-03:45pmHistone Deacetylases 9 and 10 are Required for Homologous Recombination
Shweta Kotian, Sandhya Liyanarachchi, Arthur Zelent, Jeffrey D. Parvin
Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
03:45-04:00pmA miR-29/Ets2 Regulatory Pathway in Tumor Associated Macrophages Promotes Metastatic Mammary Tumor Progression
Haritha Mathsyaraja, David A. Taffany, Michael C. Ostrowski
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
03:45-04:00pmRAD51 turnover is regulated by the ATP cap during homologous recombinational repair
Ravindra Amunugama, Yujiong He, Yu Luo, Smiranda Willcox, Jack Griffith, Robert Fortes, Ralf Bundschuh, Kang-Sup Shim, Richard Fishel
Biophysics Graduate Program, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics; Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center
04:00-04:15pmMechanisms of Allosteric Gene Regulation by NMR Quantification of μs-ms Protein Dynamics
Ian R. Kleckner, Paul Gollnick, Mark P. Foster
Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University
04:00-04:15pmLoss of microRNA-122 in mice causes hepatic inflammation and hepatocarcinogenesis
Shu-hao Hsu, Bo Wang, Stefan Costinean, Huban Kutay, Shoumei Bai, Lianbo Yu, Samson T. Jacob, Kalpana Ghoshal
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
04:15-04:30pmIdentification of Genetic Risk Factors for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Susceptibility on Chromosome 7
Jessica L. Fleming, Amy M. Dworkin, Boris C. Bastian, Allan Balmain, Amanda E. Toland
MVIMG; The Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmGeneration of a fully synthetic modified histone H3 library
John C. Shimko, Jennifer J. Ottesen
Ohio State Biochemistry Program and Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
04:30-04:45pmGle1 Translocates from the nuclear pore complex to the nuclear membrane during mitosis in Aspergillus nidulans
Mahesh Chemudupati, Aysha H. Osmani, Stephen A. Osmani
OSBP, Dept of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University
04:30-04:45pmComparison of insertional RNA editing in Myxomycetes
Cai Chen, David Frankhouser, Ralf Bundschuh
Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
04:45-05:00pmKIAA0101: a potential biomarker for breast cancer
Zeina Kais, Stanford H. Barsky, Haritha Mathsyraja, Alicia Zha, Derek J.R. Ransburgh,, Gang He, Robert T. Pilarski, Charles L. Shapiro,, Kun Huang, Jeffrey D. Parvin
Biomedical Informatics, OSU
04:45-05:00pmInsights into the accurate translation of the genetic code by the ribosome
Sean McClory, Aishwarya Devaraj, Josh Leisring, Daoming Qin, Kurt Fredrick
OSBP