Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series

Spring 2025 Schedule

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4-5pm in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI). On Program-specific days, MCDB students will be meeting in 170 DHLRI.

January 7, 2025

No seminar

January 14, 2025

Roberto Dominguez
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
Decoding actin dynamics at filament ends by cryo-EM
Host: Dmitri Kudryashov, kudryashov.1@osu.edu

January 21, 2025

Olga Anczukòw
Jackson Labs
Targeting splicing-factor regulatory networks in aging and cancer
Host: Dawn Chandler, dawn.chandler@nationwidechildrens.org

January 28, 2025

Jonathon Zehr
UC San Deigo
Host: OSBP Students
 

February 4, 2025 - Program Specific

MCDB Candidacy Panel

 

February 11, 2025

Jessica Lee
NASA Ames Research Center
Microbes in Deep Space: how microbiology research facilitates human space exploration
Host: Kristina Sattler (on behalf of the MCDB Students), sattler.78@buckeyemail.osu.edu

February 18, 2025

Pedro Batista
NCI-NIH
Host: Jane Jackman, jackman.14@osu.edu

February 25, 2025

Ron Waclaw
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Host: Rolf Stottman, Rolf.Stottmann@NationwideChildrens.org

March 4, 2025 - Program Specific

TBD

March 11, 2025

NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

March 18, 2025

Bob Goldstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: Wen Tang, Tang.542@osu.edu

March 25, 2025

Philip A Cole
Harvard Medical School
AKTivation mechanisms
Host: Nam Chu, chu.685@osu.edu

April 1, 2025 - Program Specific

Career Panel - Industry vs Academia

April 8, 2025

Elçin Ünal
UC Berkeley
Host: Kristina Sattler (on behalf of the MCDB Students), sattler.78@buckeyemail.osu.edu

April 15, 2025

Joana Vidigal
NCI-NIH
Catalytic Argonautes regulate mammalian development
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, nakanishi.9@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.