Agenda

Tuesday, May 23

TimeEvent
08:00-08:45amRegistration
Outside Great Hall Meeting Room, 1st Floor Ohio Union
08:45-09:00amOpening remarks
Great Hall Meeting Room, 1st Floor Ohio Union
  

Session I: Student Plenary Talks

09:00-09:15amRole of Truncated Recombinant AAV Genomes in Tumor Formation
Patrick Westmoreland, Harkness Kuck, Vijay Nadella, Douglas M. McCarty, Peter White
MCDB Graduate Program The Ohio State University
09:15-09:30amProbing Nucleosome Stability with a DNA Origami Caliper
Jenny V. Le, Yi Luo , Michael A. Darcy, Michael G. Poirier, Carlos E. Castro
Biophysics Graduate Program
09:30-09:45amParental exposure to dim light at night prior to mating alters adult offspring physiological and behavioral immune responses
Yasmine M Cisse, Kathryn LG Russart, Randy J Nelson
Neuroscience Graduate Program
09:45-10:00amTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Erik D. Olson, Steve Tuske, Joseph D. Bauman, Jie Zheng, Bruce D. Pascal, Patrick R. Griffin, Jeffrey DeStefano, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Eddy Arnold
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
10:00-10:20amCoffee Break
  

Session II: Faculty Plenary Talks

10:20-10:40amCryoEM-guided iterative molecular dynamics – Rosetta protein structure refinement protocol for membrane proteins
Steffen Lindert
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
10:40-11:00amThe Role of Histone Acetylation in Chromatin Assembly
Mark Parthun
Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
11:00-11:20amStress and sensory neuron plasticity
Jessica Lerch
Department of Neuroscience
11:20-11:40amBridging the gap between editing and modification: A 10 year solution to a 25 year problem
Juan D. Alfonzo
Department Microbiology, OSBP and The Center for RNA Biology - Ohio State University

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

03:00-03:15pmDownstream factors that facilitate vesicle trafficking responses during sarcolemmal membrane repair
Dr. Sayak Bhaattcharya, Kevin Mcelhanon, Brian Paleo
Post Doc
03:00-03:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Douglas G. Cheung, Gianpiero di Leva, Matteo Fassan, Claudia Piovan, Krishna Patel, Arpan Kumar, Dorothee Wernicke, Stefano Volinia, Marina Ciomei , Michela Garofalo, Carlo M. Croce
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
03:15-03:30pmInvestigating the role of GREB1 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis and proliferation
Corinne N. Haines, Craig Burd
MCDB
03:15-03:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Yajun Liu, Nathan A. McDonald, Kathleen L. Gould, Jian-Qiu Wu
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University
03:30-03:45pmMG29 Interacts with Bin1 for Maintaining T-Tubule Structure in Skeletal Muscle Physiology and Regeneration
Xinyu Zhou, Kristyn Gumpper, Tao Tan, Hiroshi Takeshima, Jianjie Ma, Hua Zhu
OSBP, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
03:30-03:45pmThe stress-inducible gene Atf3 in non-cancer host cells contributes to chemotherapy-exacerbated breast cancer metastasis
Justin Middleton, Yi Seok Chang, Swati Jalgaonkar, Tsonwin Hai
MCDB
03:45-04:00pmNF-κB Regulates GDF-15/MIC-1 to Suppress Macrophage Surveillance During Early Tumor Development
Nivedita M. Ratnam, Jennifer M. Peterson, David J. Wang
Molecullar, Cellular and Developmental Biology Program, The Ohio State University
03:45-04:00pmRole of protocadherins in modular circuit assembly
Sarah Light, Michelle Emond, James Jontes
Neuroscience Graduate Program
04:00-04:15pmBreak
  
04:15-04:30pmGene therapy for Rett syndrome rescues MeCP2 null mice
Samantha Powers, Carlos Miranda, Cassandra Dennys, Amy Huffenberger, Lyndsey Braun, Stephanie Solano, Katelynn Kinley, Kimberly Sandy, Kathrin Meyer, Kevin Foust
Neuroscience Graduate Program
04:15-04:30pmDetermining how pioneer factors access and organize chromatin
Ben Donovan
Biophysics
04:30-04:45pmA family expands: Characterization of human TRMT10B, a multifunctional tRNA methyltransferase
Nathan Howell, Jane Jackman
Ohio State University
04:30-04:45pmNpas4-deficient mice lack homeostatic resilience against mild stress in adolescence and show impaired cognitive flexibility in adulthood.
Chloe E. Page, Jonathan Alexander, Laurence Coutellier
Neuroscience Graduate Program
04:45-05:00pmHSPB1 mutations causing hereditary neuropathy in humans disrupt non-cell autonomous protection of motor neurons in vitro
Patrick L. Heilman, SungWon Song, Carlos J. Miranda, Kathrin Meyer, Amit K. Srivastava, Christopher G. Wier
Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
04:45-05:00pmKinetic mechanism of the RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9
Austin T. Raper, Anthony A. Stephenson
OSBP
05:00-05:15pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Avinash Jaiganesh, Aniket Patel, Pedro De La Torre, Domenic Termine
Biophysics graduate program, The Ohio State University
05:00-05:15pmA novel, small-molecule activator of glutamate transporter, EAAT2, translation delays disease progression in a tauopathy model of Alzheimer's disease
Joshua B. Foster, Chien-Liang Glenn Lin
Department of Neuroscience
  
05:15-06:00pmAwards Presentation & Social Mixer
Woodys Tavern, 1st Floor Ohio UnionDelete