Autumn 2024 Schedule
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4-5pm in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI)
August 27, 2024
Tianmin Fu
The Ohio State University
Higher-order assemblies in immunity
Host: Chuck Bell, bell.489@osu.edu
September 3, 2024- MCDB Specific
MCDB Career Panel
September 10, 2024
Carl Wu
Johns Hopkins University
Title TBA
Host: Michael Poirier, poirier.18@osu.edu
September 17, 2024
Elsje Pienaar
Purdue University
3D computational models of tuberculosis granulomas: Layered structure and 3D movement work synergistically to reduce bacterial load
Host: Thomas Magliery, magliery.1@osu.edu
September 24, 2024
Jeffrey Gray
Johns Hopkins University
Artificial Intelligence Tools for Antibody Engineering and Protein Docking
Host: Tianmin Fu, fu.978@osu.edu
October 1, 2024- MCDB Specific
MCDB 3MT Competition
October 8, 2024
Gregory Alushin
Rockefeller University
Visualizing cellular force-sensing through the actin cytoskeleton
Host: Dmitri Kudryashov, kudryashov.1@osu.edu
October 15, 2024
Julie Siegenthaler
University of Colorado
Brain fibroblasts: functions in the meninges and beyond
Host: Gina Sizemore, gina.sizemore@osumc.edu
October 22, 2024
Heather Feaga
Cornell University
New Factors that Prevent Ribosome Stalling in Bacteria
Host: Micheal Kearse, kearse.3@osu.edu
October 28, 2024- Seminar Held on MONDAY!
Job Dekker
UMass Medical
Title TBA
Host: Ilaria Palmisano, ilaria.palmisano@osu.edu
November 5, 2024
NO SEMINAR TODAY - ELECTION DAY!
November 12, 2024
Cecilia Moens
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title TBA
Host: Sharon Amacher, amacher.6@osu.edu
November 19, 2024
Ming- Daw Tsai
National Taiwan University
Visualizing the DNA repair process by a photolyase at atomic resolution
Host: Chuck Bell, bell.489@osu.edu
November 26, 2024
NO SEMINAR TODAY!
December 3, 2024
Sua Myong
Boston Children’s Hospital
Title TBA
Host: OSBP Students (Grace Johnecheck), osbp@osu.edu
The MLS series is the joint seminar series of MCDB program and the Ohio State Biochemistry Program (OSBP). Travel arrangements are made by Lucy Omar (614-292-1463) and Mandy Hargett (614-292-2804), who can be reached at mlsseminar@osu.edu. Schedules are coordinated by the host. Contact the chair of the MLS Seminar Committee, Guramrit Singh (singh.734@osu.edu), with speaker suggestions and policy questions. Nominations of Nobel laureates, NAS members, and HHMI investigators are typically approved without further documentation. Nominations of other speakers doing cutting edge research of broad appeal should include a short justification and CV or similar website link. We strongly encourage nominations of emerging young investigators, women, and under-represented minorities. We also encourage nominations from MCDB and OSBP graduate students.