Agenda

Wednesday, May 30

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

09:00-09:15amDynamics and collectivity of water at the protein surface.
Patrick Houston, Yangzhong Qin, Jin Yang, Lijuan Wang, Dongping Zhong
Ohio State University, BioPhysics Program
09:15-09:30amFission yeast Rng15 aids efficient vesicle fusion at the division site and is required for late stages of cytokinesis
Kenneth S. Gerien, Yihua Zhu, Vedud Purde, Jian-Qiu Wu
OSBP
09:30-09:45amPar-4 Overexpression Impedes Leukemogenesis the Eµ-TCL1 Leukemia Model through Inhibition of NF-kB Signaling
Joseph T. Greene, Rajeswaran Mani, Max Yano, Frank Frissora, Kevan Zapolnik, Ronni Wasmuth, Minh Tran, Bonnie Harrington, John C. Byrd, Rahul Ramaswamy, Xiaokui Mo, Subbarao Bondada, Vivek Rangnekar
MCDB
09:45-10:00amTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Randall S. Carpenter, Adrienne M. Dorrance, Phillip G. Popovich
Neuroscience Graduate Program, The Ohio State University
10:00-10:20amCoffee Break
  

Session II: Faculty Plenary Talks

10:20-10:40amEverybody talks: exploiting tumor-tumor and tumor-host interactions that drive osteosarcoma progression
Ryan D. Roberts
Center for Childhood Cancer, Nationwide Childrens Hospital
10:40-11:00amTBA
Mark Foster
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
11:00-11:20amMicrobiota effects on neuroinflammation and recovery of function after spinal cord injury
Phillip Popovich
Neuroscience Graduate Program
11:20-11:40amFructose-asparagine metabolism by Salmonella: new prospects for drug discovery
Venkat Gopalan
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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

03:00-03:15pmLong-term environmental enrichment improves age-related hypothalamic inflammation and metabolic syndrome in middle-age mice
Seemaab Ali, Travis B. McMurphy, Xianglan Liu, Wei Huang, Nicholas J. Queen, Jason Siu, Ripal Patel, Jennifer Saxton, Lei Cao
Neuroscience Graduate Program
03:00-03:15pmMechanistic investigations of nickel-substituted rubredoxin and the role of secondary sphere interactions on H2 evolution activity
Jeffrey W. Slater, Sean C. Marguet, Haleigh A. Monaco, Michael J. Stevenson, Regina E. Trevino, Hannah S. Shafaat
OSBP
03:15-03:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Nicole Pukos, Molly Larson, Rim Yoseph, Dana McTigue
NGP
03:15-03:30pmPromiscuity and auxillary end-trimming activity of Sp. CRISPR/Cas9
Anthony A. Stephenson, Austin T. Raper
OSBP
03:30-03:45pmRational and combinatorial exploration of the catalytic mechanism of Paraoxonase-1
Timothy J. Grunkemeyer, Kiran Doddapaneni
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
03:30-03:45pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Kristina G. Witcher, Chelsea E. Bray, Julia E. Dziabis, Daniel B. McKim, Brooke N. Benner, Olga N. Kokiko-Cochra, Philip G. Popovich, Rachel K. Rowe, Jonathan Lifshitz, Jonathan P. Godbout
Neuroscience Graduate Program
03:45-04:00pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Kristi E. Miller, Hay-Oak Park
MCDB
03:45-04:00pmCharcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E mutant neurofilament subunit proteins assemble into neurofilaments
Elizabeth Stone, Atsuko Uchida, Anthony Brown
Neuroscience Graduate Program
04:00-04:15pmBreak
  
04:15-04:30pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Megan L. Cramer, Paul T. Martin
MCDB
04:15-04:30pmOrthogonal self-assembly of multiple DNA nanostructures in a single reaction
Joshua Johnson, Vasiliki Kolliopoulos, Alexander Marras, Carlos Castro
Biophysics Program
04:30-04:45pmCharacterization of corneal deformation in human donor globes in response to ocular pulse
Keyton Clayson, Elias Pavlatos, Xueliang Pan, Yanhui Ma, Jun Liu
Biophysics
04:30-04:45pmDrosophila tumor cells survive loss of RasV12 expression through activation of autophagy
Ashley Rohrabaugh, Sathiya Manivannan, Amanda Simcox
The Ohio State University, MCDB
04:45-05:00pmMeasurements of first- versus multiple- round translation in E.coli argue against a mechanism to ensure coupling of transcription and translation
Menglin Chen, Dean E. Watkins, Kurt Fredrick
Ohio State Biochemistry Program, the Ohio State University
04:45-05:00pmTitle not published online - please see printed booklet
Brian Giacopelli, Min Wang, Yu-Zhong Wu, Jessica Kohlschmidt, Krzysztof Mrzek, James S. Blachly, Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, Kevin Coombes, Clara D. Bloomfield, John C. Byrd, Christopher C. Oakes
MCDB
05:00-05:15pmIdentification of netrin signaling in outflow tract development via transcriptomic profiling
Adrianna P. Matos-Nieves, Uddalak Majumdar, Sathiyanarayanan Manivannan, Emily Morris, Stephanie LaHaye, Vidu Garg
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
05:00-05:15pmProbing the HIV-1 5′UTR Conformational Dynamics by FRET
Jonathan Kitzrow, Benjamin Brigham, James Munro, Karin Musier-Forsyth
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
  
05:15-06:00pmAwards Presentation & Social Mixer
Woodys Tavern, 1st Floor Ohio UnionDelete