2013 OSU Molecular Life Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium

 

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Wednesday, May 15
07:00-08:45amPoster setup (1st floor Great Hall)
08:00-08:45amRegistration (3rd floor outside Cartoon Room)
Session I: Opening and plenary student session (Cartoon meeting room)
08:45-09:00amKeynotes - Pat Osmer, Bob Brueggemeier, and Kathy Boris-Lawrie
  
09:00-09:15amRole of polycomb proteins RING1A and BMI1 in mitotic gene bookmarking
Mansi S. Arora, Jeffrey D. Parvin
Biomedical Informatics
09:15-09:30amSingle-Molecule Investigation of Substrate Binding Kinetics and Protein Conformational Dynamics of a B-Family Replicative DNA Polymerase
Brian Maxwell, Zucai Suo
Chemistry and Biochemistry, OSU
09:30-09:45amImpaired upregulation of IL-4Rα on active microglia of aged mice results in reduced repair and increased functional deficits after spinal cord injury
Ashley M. Fenn, Jodie C. Hall, John C. Gensel, Phillip G. Popovich, Jonathan P. Godbout
Neuroscience, The Ohio State University
09:45-10:00amTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Rohan Balakrishnan, Ralf Bundschuh, Kurt Fredrick
OSBP, Ohio State University
  
10:00-10:20amCoffee break
  
Session II: Invited faculty session (Cartoon meeting room)
10:20-10:40amImmune and Behavioral Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Priming of Microglia
Jonathan Godbout
Department of Neuroscience
10:40-11:00amTherapeutic approaches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Jill Rafael-Fortney
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
11:00-11:20amThe regulation and function of nucleosome dynamics
Michael Poirier
Departments of Physics and Chemistry&Biochemistry
11:20-11:40amMolecular dynamics of the vertebrate segmentation clock
Sharon Amacher
Department of Molecular Genetics
  
Session III: Lunch and poster session (1st floor Great Hall meeting room)
11:45-01:00pmBoxed lunches
12:00-01:00pmOdd-numbered posters present
01:00-02:00pmEven-numbered posters present
Session IV: Writing workshop (Cartoon meeting room)
02:00-03:00pmWriting workshop - Ann Altman
  
Session V: Parallel contributed sessions I&II(Cartoon meeting room)
03:00-03:15pmAcute social defeat promoted anxiogenic macrophage recruitment into the brains of sensitized mice
Eric S. Wohleb, Yan Huang, Daniel T. Shea, Dan B. McKim, Andrew J. Tarr, Nicole D. Powell, John F. Sheridan
Neuroscience, The Ohio State University
03:00-03:15pmThe nuclear export factor Gle1 is targeted to the nuclear envelope by two distinct cell cycle regulated mechanisms
Mahesh Chemudupati, Aysha H. Osmani, Stephen A. Osmani
Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University
03:15-03:30pmALS astrocytes adopt natural killer properties to induce motor neuron death
SungWon Song, Carlos J. Miranda, Lyndsey Braun, Kathrin Meyer, Adam K. Bevan, Ashley Frakes, Laura Ferraiuolo, Shibi Likhite, Kevin D. Foust, Michael J. McConnell, Katherine J. Campbell, Christopher M. Walker, Brian K. Kaspar
Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
03:15-03:30pmA CSF1 Driven microRNA Signature in Macrophages Promotes Metastatic Mammary Tumor Progression
Haritha Mathsyaraja, Katie Thies, David A. Taffany, Yongqi Wu, Tom Liu, Thierry Pecot, Cynthia Timmers, Maryam Lustberg, Jeffrey Chalmers, Michael C. Ostrowski
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
03:30-03:45pmIncreasing SMN in neurons is sufficient to rescue a severe mouse model of Spinal muscular atrophy
Chitra C. Iyer, Vicki L. McGovern, William D. Arnold , Jason D. Murray, Paul M. Janssen, Brian K. Kaspar, Arthur H.M. Burghes
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA
03:30-03:45pmMicroRNA-1 induction impairs ischemic wound healing by attenuating keratinocyte migration and angiogenesis
Jaideep Banerjee, Thomas Schmittgen, Savita Khanna, Sashwati Roy, Chandan K Sen
Surgery, OSU
03:45-04:00pmGenome-wide Analysis of Pathogenic Changes in mRNA Expression in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Katelin F. Hansen, Kensuke Sakamoto, Carl Pelz, Soren Impey, Karl Obrietan
Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
03:45-04:00pmDpp-induced Egfr signaling triggers postembryonic wing development in Drosophila
Sathiya Narayanan Manivannan, Litty Paul, Shu-Huei Wang, Liana Bonanno, Sarah Lewis, Christina L. Austin, Amanda Simcox
MCDB program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
04:00-04:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Cai Chen, Ralf Bundschuh
Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University
04:00-04:15pmMechanisms of apigenin’s action to increase Akti1/2-induced thyroidal iodide uptake
Aparna Lakshmanan, Sissy M. Jhiang
Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmThe regulation of tRNA subcellular trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Hsiao-Yun Huang , Anita K. Hopper
Molecular Genetics, the Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmArrestin-Art1 in cytokinesis
Reshma Davidson, Dr. Damien Laporte
MCDB, OSU
04:30-04:45pmDifferences between RSV and HIV-1 Gag nucleic acid chaperone activity attributed to the MA domain
Tiffiny D. Rye-McCurdy, Nicole Gudleski, Shorena Nadaraia-Hoke, Leslie J. Parent, Karin Musier-Forsyth
The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH, 43210
04:30-04:45pm‘Ets’sentials of Angiogenesis
Sankha Ghosh, Ruchika Srinivasan, Michael Ostrowski
MCDB
04:45-05:00pmAAV9-mediated SOD1 Downregulation: Potential Therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Shibi Likhite, Kevin Foust, Laura Ferraiuolo, Leah Schmelzer, Lyndsey Braun, Brian Kaspar
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University; Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
04:45-05:00pmStructural basis for high-affinity binding of LEDGF PWWP to mononucleosomes
Brandon Crowe, Jocelyn Eidahl, Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, Mark Foster
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University