Monthly Seminar Series
2024-2025 Seminar Series Schedule
Seminars will be held at 12:00 pm in 115 Biomedical Research Tower (BRT) unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 180 Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center (IHSC) - Near Hamilton Hall
Dr. Andrei Korostelev
Professor
UMass Chan Medical School
"Ribosome stalling and angiogenin activation in ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases"
Host: Kurt Fredrick Email: Fredrick.5@osu.edu
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 380 Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center (IHSC) - Near Hamilton Hall
CRB Postdoctoral Research Presentations
Dr. Safiya Khurshid
Chandler Lab
“Metabolic starvation regulates alternative splicing to potentiate tumorigenicity”
Dr. Anton Blatnik
Burghes Lab
“Sm-site containing mRNAs can accept Sm-rings and are down regulated in Spinal Muscular Atrophy”
Host: Gina Nostramo Email: nostramo.1@osu.edu
The 2nd Annual Schoenberg Lecture
October 13-14, 2024
Dr. Adrian Krainer
St. Giles Foundation Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sunday, October 13, 2024 - Fawcett Center Conference Theater
Public Lecture hosted by Science Sundays
Lecture - 3PM
"Shooting the messenger: “Antisense” therapies for rare diseases"
Reception - 4PM
Monday October 14, 2024 - 115 BRT
Scientific talk hosted by the Center for RNA Biology
Lecture - 2PM
"Antisense Modulation of RNA Splicing for Rare Disease Therapy"
Wednesday October 23, 2024 - 10AM
CRB Hosting the RNA Collaborative Virtual Seminar
Dr. Wen Tang - Speaker
“Mechanisms of piRNA Production and Degradation”
Dr. Gina Nostramo (Hopper lab) -Speaker
"FitRNAs for duty: Free introns of tRNAs as complementarity-dependent regulators of gene expression"
Julia Warrick (Kearse lab) - moderator
Talk link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWsAD_BJ6qI&t=1330s
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 115 BRT
Dr. Joseph Puglisi
Professor
Stanford University
"Dynamics of translation initiation"
Host: Karin Musier-Forsyth Email: musier@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 115 BRT
Dr. Michelle Hastings
Pfizer Upjohn Research Professor of Pharmacology
Director, M-RNA Therapeutics
University of Michigan Medical School
"Making of Antisense Oligonucleotide Medicines for CLN3 Batten Disease"
Host: Dawn Chandler Email: dawn.chandler@nationwidechildrens.org
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 115 BRT
Dr. Richard Gregory
Professor & Chair,
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology
UMass Chan Medical School
“tRNA modifications and codon-biased translation in cancer”
Host: Wen Tang Email: tang.542@osu.edu
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 115 BRT
RNA Fellows Present:
Julia Warrick - Kearse Lab
Yi-Hui Wang - Tang Lab
Oliver Marchus- Hollick Lab
Student Advisor: Michael Kearse Email: Michael.Kearse@osumc.edu
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 115 BRT
Dr. Vikram Paralkar
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Mike Kearse Email: Michael.Kearse@osumc.edu
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 115 BRT
Dr. David Garcia
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Host: Jane Jackman Email: jackman.14@osu.edu
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - The Ohio Union
CRB & CMBP Annual Symposium
Registration opens Spring 2025