2011 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium
Agenda
Monday, May 2 | |
Session I: Opening and invited oral session (Cartoon meeting room) | |
08:50-09:00am | Welcome - the IGP directors |
09:00-09:20am | New roles for an ancient enzyme: tRNA 5'-end maintenance by Thg1 family enzymes Jane Jackman Department of Biochemistry |
09:20-09:40am | Familial and Sporadic ALS Derived Astrocytes Confer Toxicity to Motor Neurons Brian K. Kaspar Pediatrics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital |
09:40-10:00am | Engineering 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) | |
10:00-10:15am | Development 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 |
10:15-10:30am | Mechanistic insights into 3’--5' nucleotide addition by eukaryotic tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1) Brian Smith, Jane Jackman Department of Biochemistry Ohio State University |
10:30-10:50am | Coffee break |
10:50-11:05am | Title not published online - please see printed booklet Ryan Pavlovicz, Brandon Henderson, Andrew Bonnell, R. Thomas Boyd, Dennis McKay, Chenglong Li Biophysics, Ohio State University |
11:05-11:20am | Chromatin 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 |
11:20-11:35am | Engineering proteins from sequence statistics Brandon J. Sullivan, Venuka Durani, Thomas J. Magliery The Ohio State Biochemistry Program |
11:35-11:50am | The “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) | |
12:00-01:00pm | Boxed lunches |
12:30-01:30pm | Odd-numbered posters present |
01:30-02:30pm | Even-numbered posters present |
Session IV: Parallel contributed sessions I&II (Cartoon meeting room) | |
03:00-03:15pm | Emergence 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 |
03:00-03:15pm | Some 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 |
03:15-03:30pm | Title not published online - please see printed booklet Bryon Mahler, Soojin Lee, Jodie Toward, Kiran Doddapaneni, Graeme Wistow, Justin Wu Biochemistry |
03:15-03:30pm | Proteomic 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 |
03:30-03:45pm | The 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 |
03:30-03:45pm | Histone 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 |
03:45-04:00pm | A 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 |
03:45-04:00pm | RAD51 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 |
04:00-04:15pm | Mechanisms 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 |
04:00-04:15pm | Loss 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 |
04:15-04:30pm | Identification 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 |
04:15-04:30pm | Generation 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 |
04:30-04:45pm | Gle1 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 |
04:30-04:45pm | Comparison of insertional RNA editing in Myxomycetes Cai Chen, David Frankhouser, Ralf Bundschuh Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
04:45-05:00pm | KIAA0101: 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 |
04:45-05:00pm | Insights into the accurate translation of the genetic code by the ribosome Sean McClory, Aishwarya Devaraj, Josh Leisring, Daoming Qin, Kurt Fredrick OSBP |