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Thursday, May 21

TimeEvent
08:00-08:45amRegistration and Breakfast
08:45-09:15amWelcome and Presentation of Student Awards
  

Session I: Student Plenary Talks

09:15-09:30amTitle not published online - please see booklet
Eleanor T. Rimmerman, MS, Kumudha Narayana Musini, MS, Kyle A. Shin, BA, Michael R. Go, MD, Mitchel R. Stacy, PhD
Biophysics Graduate Program
09:30-09:45amAge-Associated Expansion of FCRL5+ IgM+ B1 Cell Clones: Drivers of Progressive MS and Targets for Therapy
Hayley Groover, Jeffrey Atkinson, PhD, Shane Chen, Tom Liu, PhD, Andreas Wieland, PhD, Benjamin Segal, MD
Neuroscience Graduate Program, The Ohio State University
09:45-10:00amDeveloping a Patient-Derived Organoid Platform to Advance Gene Therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1B
MK McCulloch, Jingting Zhu, Mark Hester, Afrooz Rashnonejad
MCDB, NCH
10:00-10:15amExercise intervention to mitigate high-phosphate diet-induced skeletal muscle metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction
Hannah F Sanders, Jade A Blackwell, Kedryn K Baskin
The Ohio State University
10:15-10:35amBreak
  

Session II: Faculty Plenary Talks

10:35-10:55amFrom bacterial sensors to human drug targets: computational discovery of ligand-binding motifs
Igor Jouline
Biophysics Graduate Program, Department of Microbiology
10:55-11:15amOf sleep and stars: defining a role for astrocytes in sleep
Ashley Ingiosi
Department of Neuroscience
11:15-11:35amPost-transcriptional control of oscillatory expression
Sharon Amacher
Department of Molecular Genetics
11:35-11:55amThe role of RNA cleavage in innate immunity
Agnes Karasik
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Session III: Lunch and Poster Sessions

12:00-02:00pmLunch, Ohio Union Lobby
12:15-01:30pmOdd-Numbered Posters, Archie Griffen Ballroom
01:30-02:45pmEven-Numbered Posters, Archie Griffen Ballroom
02:45-03:00pmBreak
  

Session IV: Parallel Student Talks

03:00-03:15pmHanks-type kinases across all of life and their role in bacterial signal transduction
Aneel N. Biswas, Igor B. Zhulin
Biophysics Graduate Program
03:00-03:15pmIntegrative Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Osteosarcoma Reveals Conserved and Distinct Ecosystems Across Sites and Species
Yogesh Budhathoki, Matthew Cannon, Troy A. McEachron, Anand G. Patel, Matthew J. Gust, Ryan D. Roberts
Ohio State University, Nationwide Childrens Hospital
03:15-03:30pmFunctional Engineering of Calmodulin Reveals Dynamic Constraints in Redesigning Flexible Proteins
Vladimir Bogdanov, Svetlana Tikunova, Christopher N. Johnson, Robyn T. Rebbeck, Steffen Lindert, Sandor Gyorke
Biophysics Graduate Program, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210
03:15-03:30pmIdentifying the ferroptosis pathway in an age-dependent cortical cataract model transcriptome
Electra Coffman, Timothy Plageman Jr.
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program
03:30-03:45pmAncestral Components of Bacterial Flagellum
Berkay Selcuk, Ekaterina P. Andrianova, Morgan Beeby, Daniel B. Kearns, Marc Erhardt, Igor Jouline
Biophysics Graduate Program, Department of Microbiology and Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
03:30-03:45pmCD200: A Novel Stromal Regulator of Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer
Ayushi Das, Jessica Wedig, Maria Schmidt, Marco Rodriguez, Elijah Kirschstein, Andrew Gunderson, Aleksander Skardal, Thomas Mace
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
03:45-04:00pmTroponin enhanceropathies: a novel role for the troponin genes
Jenna Thuma, Madhoolika Bisht, Yvette Wang , Jordan King , Brandon Biesiadecki, Jon Davis
Biophysics Graduate Program
03:45-04:00pmGolgi Trafficking Protein COPB2 Regulates Neural Progenitor Survival and Reveals Species-Specific Differences in Neurogenesis
Morgan Elizabeth Smith, Rolf W. Stottmann
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program
04:00-04:15pmBreak
  
04:15-04:30pmDevelopment of Nanobody-Based Protein Degraders Targeting HER2 through the Lysosomal Pathway
Niyi Adelakun, Marie Butts, Nhat Le, Nam Chu
Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, and Ohio State Biochemistry Program
04:15-04:30pmIncrease in maternal lipokine 12,13-diHOME mediates adaptations to the offspring gut microbiome.
Anandi Batabyal, Elisa F. Soriano, Natalia A. Mazo, Yuanyuan Cao, Daniel G. Perez, Tamar Gur, Kristin Stanford
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Program
04:30-04:45pmMechanisms of developmental reprogramming in the mammary stroma following in utero exposure to bisphenol A
Jilian M. Poska, Bader Albalawi, Madeline R. Price, Craig J. Burd
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
04:30-04:45pmBeyond the Lesion: How Spinal Cord Injury Modulates the Gut Microenvironment
Ashley Cyr , Katherine Mifflin , Kristina Kigerl , Phillip Popovich
Department of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Belford Center for Spinal Cord, Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair
04:45-05:00pmLRRK2-mediated vesicle exocytosis: A novel response to lysosomal damage in Parkinsons disease
Mia Ashriem, Nuria Fernandez, Tsion Tegicho, Luis Bonet-Ponce
MCDB
04:45-05:00pmAstrocyte PDGFR hyperactivation promotes breast cancer-associated brain metastasis
Nathaniel S Grabinski, Jesse Reardon, Prathik Chakravarthy, Johnathon Schiebel, Paul Lee, Kyle Preusser, Marissa Moore, Jessica Winter, Steven Sizemore, Gina Sizemore
Neuroscience Graduate Program
05:00-05:15pmNRAS mutation-specific responses to pan-RAF inhibition in melanoma
Rachel E. Lew, Harsha S. Sanaka, Christin E. Burd
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program
05:00-05:15pmMicroglial MerTK as a key modulator of CNS region-specific inflammation during EAE
Calli Bellinger, Benjamin Segal
Neuroscience Graduate Program
  
05:15-05:30pmAwards Presentation