Agenda

Wednesday, May 27

TimeEvent
08:00-08:45amRegistration
Outside Cartoon Meeting Room, 3rd Floor Ohio Union
08:45-09:00amOpening remarks (Christopher Hadad)
Cartoon Meeting Room, 3rd Floor Ohio Union
  

Session I: Student Plenary Talks

09:00-09:15amPersistent impact of chronic endocrine disruption upon estrogen signaling
Andrea R. Patterson, Xiaokui Mo, Ali Shapiro, Karen E. Wernke, Trevor K. Archer, Craig J. Burd
Department of Molecular Genetics, The James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University
09:15-09:30amCharacterization and Selection of Biophysically Optimized Antibody Fragments for Enhanced in vivo Tumor Imaging
N. Emerson Long, Brandon J. Sullivan, Thomas J. Magliery
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
09:30-09:45amDDR1 deficiency in the murine aorta alters collagen fiber structure and platelet adhesion
Jeffrey Tonniges, Benjamin Albert, Edward Calomeni, Gunjan Agarwal
Biophysics Graduate Program
09:45-10:00amRepeated Social Defeat Stress Induces Neuroinflammation and Impairs Hippocampal Neurogenesis That Differentially Regulate Mood and Cognition
Anzela Niraula, Daniel B. McKim, Andrew J. Tarr, Eric S. Wohleb, John Sheridan, Jonathan Godbout
Neuroscience Graduate Program
10:00-10:20amCoffee Break
  

Session II: Faculty Plenary Talks

10:20-10:40amLife Under Tension: Exceptional Cadherins for Hearing and Balance
Marcos Sotomayor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
10:40-11:00amGestational stress effects on the postpartem reward system: implications for mood, motivation and mothering
Benedetta Leuner
Department of Psychology
11:00-11:20amDissecting functional cooperation during protein-aided RNA catalysis in RNase P
Venkat Gopalan
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
11:20-11:40amUsing genomics to direct patient care: Opportunities and Challenges for Precision Cancer Medicine
Sameek Roychowdhury
Department of Internal Medicine

Session III: Lunch and Poster Session

12:15-01:30pmOdd-numbered Poster Presentations
01:30-02:45pmEven-numbered Poster Presentations
  

Session IV: Parallel Session Student Talks

03:00-03:15pmDeterminants of specific recognition of mischarged Ala-tRNAPro by a bacterial trans-editing domain
Eric M. Danhart, Brianne Sanford, Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez, Daniel McGowan, Marina Bakhtina, Lexie Kuzmishin, Marija Kosutic, Ronald L. Micura, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Mark P. Foster
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:00-03:15pmRng16 coordinates contractile-ring constriction and septum formation in cytokinesis
Reshma Davidson, Josef Pontasch, Dr. Jian-Qiu Wu
MCDB
03:15-03:30pmViewing human DNA polymerase β faithfully and unfaithfully bypass an oxidative lesion by time-dependent crystallography
Andrew J. Reed, Rajan Vyas, E. John Tokarsky, Zucai Suo
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:15-03:30pmIdentification of an inner nuclear membrane protein that impacts the spatio-temporal content of both the nuclear envelope and nuclear interior
Mahesh Chemudupati, Stephen A. Osmani
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:30-03:45pmCharacterization of nucleosome structure using DNA origami
J.V. Le, Yi Luo, Christopher Lucas, Michael Poirier, Carlos Castro
Interdisciplinary Biophysics Graduate Program
03:30-03:45pmAnalysis of a novel microtubule-associated protein that displays dynamic cell cycle regulated locations.
Nandini Shukla, Aysha H. Osmani, Angela B. Davis , Stephen A. Osmani
The Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:45-04:00pmAn exogenous transposable element is recognized by homology and expression dependent methylation
Dalen Fultz, R. Keith Slotkin
Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
03:45-04:00pmDirect assessment of skeletal muscle contractile strength in live wildtype and rbfox morphant zebrafish larvae
Brit L. Martin, Tom L. Gallagher, Neha Rastogi, Jonathan P. Davis, Christine E. Beattie, Sharon L. Amacher
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
04:00-04:15pmBreak
  
04:15-04:30pmUsing sur-2 as a gateway to understanding EGF pathway interaction differences in nematodes
Karley K. Mahalak, Edward Zitnik, Helen Chamberlin
MCDB
04:15-04:30pmCyclic rhamnosylated EF-P establishes antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas PAK
Andrei Rajkovic, Sarah Tyler, Annie Kalionski, Owen E Branson
MCDB
04:30-04:45pmIntraspinal TLR4 activation promotes iron storage but amplifies acute cytotoxicity
Evan Z. Goldstein, Jamie Church, Phillip G. Popovich, Dana M. McTigue
NGP
04:30-04:45pmMineralocorticoid Receptors in Skeletal Muscle are a Potential Therapeutic Target for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Jessica Chadwick, James Hauck, Jeovanna Lowe, Denis Guttridge, Jill Rafael-Fortney
Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, & Dept. of Physiology & Cell Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmExon 2 skipping strategies to treat DMD 5’ mutations: Intramuscular delivery of rAAV9.snRNA mediated skipping and antisense morpholino oligomers.
Tabatha Simmons, Nicolas Wein, Adeline Vulin-Chaffiol, Kristin Heller, Louise Rodino-Klapac, Kevin Flanigan
The Center for Gene Therapy, Nationwide Childrens Hospital, Molecular Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmSympathetic Release of Splenic Monocytes Promotes Recurring Anxiety Following Repeated Social Defeat
Daniel B. McKim, Jenna M. Patterson, Eric S. Wohleb, Brant L. Jarrett Biosciences - COD, Jonathan P. Godbout, John F. Sheridan
Neuroscience Graduate Program
05:00-05:15pmAge-related impairments in the dynamic regulation of active microglia by astrocytes
Diana M. Norden, Paige J. Trojanowski, Frederick R. Walker, Jonathan P. Godbout
Department of Neuroscience
05:00-05:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Jason R. Pitarresi, Jnigahi Wu, Xin Liu, Maria C. Cuitio, Raleigh D. Kladney, Gustavo Leone, Michael C. Ostrowski
OSBP and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
  
05:15-06:00pmAwards Presentation & Social Mixer
Woodys Tavern, 1st Floor Ohio Union