Monthly Seminar Series
2023-2024 Seminar Series Schedule
Seminars will be held at 12:00 pm in 115 Biomedical Research Tower (BRT) unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 – 115 BRT
CRB Postdoctoral Research Presentations
Dr. Gina Nostramo
Postdoctoral Researcher- Hopper Lab
Department of Molecular Genetics
“fitRNAs (free introns of tRNAs): A novel class of small non-coding regulatory RNAs”
Dr. Walter Zahurancik
Postdoctoral Researcher- Gopalan Lab
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Modulation of Ribozyme Activity by Temperature- and Metal-ion–dependent Phase Separation”
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 170 DHLRI
Dr. Ariel Bazzini
Principal Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
“Translation affects gene expression in vertebrates”
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 115 BRT
Dr. Heather Hundley
Associate Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
“Mechanisms of in vivo Target Recognition by the ADAR family of RNA Modification Enzymes”
Host: Wayne Miles Email: Wayne.miles@osumc.edu
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 – 115 BRT
Dr. Simpson Joseph
Professor
University of California, San Diego
“Translational Control in Fragile X Syndrome and Influenza”
Host: Kurt Fredrick Email: Fredrick.5@osu.edu
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 – 115 BRT
RNA Fellows Present:
Benjamin Pastore - "Determination of the mechanisms governing piRNA degradation”
Tang Lab
Ian Price - “Local induction of Vasa RNA binding activity underlies perinuclear germ granule assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans”
Tang Lab
Paul Russell - "Deciphering mechanisms of ribosome turnover during global translation inhibition"
Kearse Lab
Fawwaz Naeem - “Analysis of programmed frameshifting during translation of prfB in Flavobacterium johnsoniae”
Fredrick Lab
Student Advisor: Michael Kearse Email: Michael.Kearse@osumc.edu
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 – 170 DHLRI
Dr. Yan Zhang
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
“Leveraging natural CRISPR diversity to advance human genome engineering.”
Host: Wen Tang Email: tang.542@osu.edu
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 – 170 DHLRI – Please note the date – 3rd Tuesday
Dr. Traci Hall
Senior Investigator
NIH
"Molecular mechanisms of RNA regulation in stem cell self-renewal and differentiation"
Host: Wayne Miles Email: Wayne.miles@osumc.edu
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 – 170 DHLRI
Dr. Cassandra Hayne
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
"Recent Breakthroughs in tRNA Splicing Using Cryo-EM and Biochemistry"
Host: Anita Hopper Email: Hopper.64@osu.edu
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – 170 DHLRI
Dr. Eric Strobel
Assistant Professor
University at Buffalo
"Systematic analysis of cotranscriptional RNA folding using Transcription Elongation Complex Display"
Host: Mark Foster Email: Foster.281@osu.edu
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 – 115 BRT
Dr. Blanton Tolbert
Jacob Gershon Cohen Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania
"Viral 5'UTRs: Opportunities to Discover Novel Inhibitors of Virus-host Interactions"
Host: Sharon Amacher Email: Amacher.6@osu.edu
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – 115 BRT 12 PM
Dr. Melissa Moore
Co-Founder, ViaScientific
CSO Emerita, Moderna
Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMassMed
“Bigger is not always better: An inverse relationship between polysome size and protein output”
Host: Guramrit Singh Email: Singh.734.@osu.edu
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – 115 BRT 1 PM
Dr. Alper Kucukural
Associate Professor
UMass Chan Medical School
CTO & Co-Founder, Via Scientific
"Via Foundry: Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Cutting-Edge Multi-Omics Solutions"
Host: Guramrit Singh Email: Singh.734.@osu.edu