Agenda

Wednesday, May 18

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

Session I: Student Plenary Talks

09:00-09:15amDynamic Control of DNA Origami Nanostructures Via Gold Nanoparticles
Joshua Johnson, Abhilasha Dehankar, Jessica Winter, Carlos Castro
Biophysics Program
09:15-09:30amUnexpected mechanistic features of a multifunctional tRNA methyltransferase.
Aiswarya Krishnamohan, Jane Jackman
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
09:30-09:45amPnrc2 promotes rapid clearance of oscillating transcripts through 3’UTR interactions
Kiel T. Tietz, Thomas L. Gallagher, Nicolas L. Derr, zachary T. Morrow
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
09:45-10:00amTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Daniel B. McKim, Jonathan P. Godbout, John F. Sheridan
Neuroscience Graduate Program
10:00-10:20amCoffee Break
  

Session II: Faculty Plenary Talks

10:20-10:40amContribution of prefrontal GABAergic transmission to neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders
Laurence Coutellier
Speaker selected by Neuroscience Graduate Program students
10:40-11:00amElongation factor P - dependent regulation of gene expression
Michael Ibba
Speaker selected by Biochemistry Graduate Program Students
11:00-11:20amDiscovering a new role for NF-kB in cell migration during neonatal muscle development
Denis Guttridge
Speaker selected by Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program Students
11:20-11:40amMagnetic Quantum Dots for Cancer Diagnostics
Jessica Winter
Speaker selected by Biophysics Graduate Program Students

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

03:00-03:15pmSpinal cord injury suppresses cutaneous inflammation: implications for peripheral wound healing
Jessica M. Marbourg, Anna Bratasz, Xiaokui Mo, Phillip G. Popovich
Neuroscience Graduate Program
03:00-03:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Sharon R. Cooper, Michelle R. Emond, Brandon G. Liebau, Phan Q. Duy, Marc A.Wolman, James D. Jontes, Marcos Sotomayor
MCDB
03:15-03:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Kaitlin Snider, Heather Dziema, Sydney Aten, Jacob Loeser, Frances E. Norona, Karl Obrietan
Neuroscience Graduate Program
03:15-03:30pmMolecular mechanisms of inherited deafness due to missense mutations in cadherin-23
Avinash Jaiganesh
Biophysics graduate program, The Ohio State University
03:30-03:45pmNF-κB Regulates Suppression Of Macrophage Activity During Early Tumor Development
Nivedita M. Ratnam, Jennifer M. Peterson, Benjamin J. Swanson, Terrance M. Williams, David J. Wang, Denis C. Guttridge
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program
03:30-03:45pmRNA structure provides insights into mechanism of selective genome packaging by retroviral Gag
Erik D Olson, William A Cantara, Tiffiny Rye-McCurdy, Brian R Thompson, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth
Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retroviral Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
03:45-04:00pmTumorigenic functions of splice variant MDM2-ALT1 in p53 wildtype and p53 null mouse models
Daniel Comiskey, Aishwarya Jacob, Brianne Sanford, Aixa Tapia-Santos, Dawn Chandler
MCDB
03:45-04:00pmInduced fit binding involving a dynamic helix confers specific recognition of mischarged Ala-tRNAPro by a bacterial trans-editing domain
Eric M. Danhart, Lexie Kuzmishin, Marina Bakhtina, Brianne Sanford, Marija Kosutic, Ronald L. Micura, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Mark P. Foster
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
04:00-04:15pmBreak
  
04:15-04:30pmAblation of the BRCA1-PALB2 interaction phenocopies Fanconi Anemia
Dongju Park, Stephen Bergin, Christopher Koivisto, Thomas Ludwig
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
04:15-04:30pmCharacterization and Selection of Biophysically Optimized Antibody Fragments for Enhanced in vivo Tumor Imaging
Nick Emerson Long, Brandon J. Sullivan, Thomas J. Magliery
OSBP
04:30-04:45pmDeciphering the roles of aspartate and histidine in the mechanism of the six-bladed β-propeller hydrolases
Timothy John Grunkemeyer, Kiran Doddapaneni, Srividya Murali, Gregory Friedberg
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
04:30-04:45pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Nandini Shukla, Aysha H. Osmani , Stephen A. Osmani
The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmMyoD Regulates Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Metabolism Cooperatively with Alternative NF-kB
Jonathan Shintaku, Jennifer M. Peterson, Jinmo Gu, Ruoning Wang, Vittorio Sartorelli, Denis C. Guttridge
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Graduate Program
04:45-05:00pmThe role of stromal estrogen receptor in mammary gland reprogramming following in utero BPA exposure
Andrea R. Patterson, Xiaokui Mo, Ali C. Shapiro, Hannah L. Helber, Nanditha Ravichandran, Claire E. Kovalchin, Craig J. Burd
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Program, Department of Molecular Genetics, and The Arthur G. James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
05:00-05:15pmThe N-terminal domains of DNA Polymerase Lambda regulate DNA damage response and repair
Anthony A. Stephenson, David J. Taggart, Shelby A. Newsad
Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University
05:00-05:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Catey Dominguez, Dawn S. Chandler
MCDB
  
05:15-06:00pmAwards Presentation & Social Mixer
Woodys Tavern, 1st Floor Ohio Union