2012 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium

 

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Wednesday, May 23
Session I: Opening and invited oral session (Cartoon meeting room)
08:45-09:00amWelcome - the IGP directors
  
09:00-09:20amGenetic Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment: Pten and P53 Move into the Neighborhood
Mike Ostrowski
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
09:20-09:40amtRNA processing and nuclear/cytoplasmic bidirectional trafficking: surprising complexities
Anita Hopper
Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
09:40-10:00amExploring the conformational landscape of biological regulation
Mark Foster
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
Session II: Plenary contributed session (Cartoon meeting room)
10:00-10:15amCancer-associated MDM2 splice variant: generated under stress by a coordination of cis elements and modified trans factors.
Aishwarya G. Jacob, Ravi K. Singh, Dawn S. Chandler
MCDB, The Ohio State University
10:15-10:30amThyroid specific ablation of the Carney Complex gene, PRKAR1A, results in hyperthyroidism and follicular thyroid cancer
Daphne R. Pringle, Zhirong Yin, Audrey A. Lee, Parmeet K. Manchanda, Linabo Yu, David Jarjoura, Alfred. F. Parlow, Krista M. D. LaPerle, Lawrence S. Kirschner
Molecular Virology, Immunology, & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University
  
10:30-10:50amCoffee break
  
10:50-11:05amWhat would it take to diagnose Alzheimer's disease? A predictive study using pharmacokinetic modeling of PET imaging agents
Kelsey Schafer, Sohee Kim, Anastasios Matzavinos, Jeff Kuret
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University
11:05-11:20amProteomic analysis of mitotic nuclear pore complex proteins identified a novel microtubule-associated protein with possible functions in interphase and mitosis.
Nandini Shukla, Aysha H. Osmani, Stephen A. Osmani
OSBP and Molecular Genetics, OSU
11:20-11:35amProteomic analysis reveals new cardiac-specific dystrophin-associated proteins.
Eric K. Johnson, Liwen Zhang, Kari Green-Church, Marvin E Adams, Stanley C. Froehner , Alistair Phillips, Michael A Freitas, Federica Montanaro
The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University
11:35-11:50amOverexpression of Human Alpha7 integrin as a potential therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Kristin N. Heller, Chrystal L. Montgomery, Vinod Malik, Paul M. L. Janssen, K. Reed Clark , Louise R. Rodino-Klapac
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Center for Gene Therapy, Nationwide Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics
  
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)
03:00-03:15pmDefects on Essential Yeast Proteins Reveal a New Mechanism for Inner Nuclear Membrane Targeting of Peripherally Associated Proteins
Greetchen Diaz-Munoz , Terri Harchar , Tsung-Po Lai , Charlie Boone , Anita K. Hopper
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program, Ohio State University
03:00-03:15pmThe solution structure and nucleosome binding of the PWWP domain of LEDGF/p75
Brandon L. Crowe, Jocelyn Eidahl, Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, Mark P. Foster
Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State Universtiy
03:15-03:30pmMutual Information Study of Adenylate Kinase
Nicholas Callahan, Dr. Deepa Perera, Jendy Weppler, Dr. Will Ray, Dr. Thomas Magliery
Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University
03:15-03:30pmCharacterization of Mid1 domains for targeting and scaffolding in fission yeast cytokinesis
I-Ju Lee, Jian-Qiu Wu
Graduate Program of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
03:30-03:45pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
SungWon Song, Shibi Likhite, Matthew J Murtha, Amanda M Haidet-Phillips, Ashley Frakes, Jerry R Mendell, M Hester, C Miranda, K Meyer, L Braun, K Foust, M Rao, A Eagle, Anja Kammesheidt, Ashley Christensen, Arthur H M Burghes, Brian K Kaspar
MCDB, The Ohio State University
03:30-03:45pmIdentification of novel genes in BRCA1 regulated pathways
Shweta Kotian, Jeffrey D. Parvin
Biomedical Informatics, OSUCCC
03:45-04:00pmAllelic-specific imbalance mapping identifies HDAC9 and IFRD1 as candidate susceptibility genes for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Jessica L. Fleming, Amy M. Dworkin, Mingfeng Zhang, Abrar A. Qureshi , Dawn C. Allain, Soledad Fernandez
MVIMG, The Ohio State University
03:45-04:00pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Cai Chen, Ralf Bundschuh
Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University
04:00-04:15pmIL-27 enhances anti-tumor CD8+ T cell responses and tumor rejection via multiple mechanisms
Zhenzhen Liu, Jin-Qing Liu, Fatemeh Talebian, Shulin Li, Lai-Chu Wu, Xue-Feng Bai
Pathology, The Ohio State University
04:00-04:15pmRole of inter-subunit bridges in ribosomal translocation
Qi Liu, Kurt Fredrick
OSBP, The Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmEvaluation of Eye Metastatic Melanoma with Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-MRI
Wenbo Wei, Guang Jia, Frederick H. Davidorf, Michael V. Knopp
Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Anya V. Belyaevskaya, Frank J. Grundy, Tina Henkin
MCDB, The Ohio State University
04:30-04:45pmReciprocal regulation of syndecan-2 and Notch in vascular smooth muscle cells
Ning Zhao, Hua Liu, Brenda Lilly
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Center, Research Institute at Naionwide Childrens Hospital
04:30-04:45pmNon-canonical biogenesis of the catalytic subunit of the Drosophila RNase P- a tRNA processing enzyme
Sathiya N. Manivannan, Lien B. Lai, Venkat Gopalan, Amanda A. Simcox
Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
04:45-05:00pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Arife Unal-Eroglu, Myron S. Ignatius, Glen Glallagher, Smitha Malireddy, Kevin Bosse
Department of Neuroscience, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program, The Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmMultiple functions of Thg1 family enzymes in tRNA metabolism
Yicheng Long, Maria Abad, Jane E. Jackman
Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University