Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series

Autumn 2022 schedule

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4-5pm in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI)

August 30, 2022

Polly Fordyce & Daniel Herschlag
Stanford University
The joys, challenges and rewards of collaboration: A revolutionary new approach to understanding enzymes and a new friend?
Host: OSBP Students, Brian Scarpitti, scarpitti.21@osu.edu

September 13, 2022

Jae Jung
The Cleveland Clinic
Proinflammatory Programmed Cell Death
Host: Jian Zhu, Jian.Zhu@osumc.edu

September 20, 2022

Jim Kadonaga
University of California-San Diego
New Explorations in Chromatin Dynamics and Transcription by RNA Polymerase II
Host: Dario Palmieri, Dario.Palmieri@osumc.edu

September 27, 2022

Christopher Lengner
University of Pennsylvania
Probing lineage in cancer metastasis
Host: Christoph Lepper, Christoph.Lepper@osumc.edu

October 4, 2022

MCDB Annual 3 Minute Thesis event
October 11, 2022

October 11, 2022

Stephen Goff
Columbia University
Silencing of Retroviral DNA Expression Before and After Integration
Host: Amit Sharma, sharma.157@osu.edu

October 18, 2022

Keiko Torii
University of Texas-Austin
Breaking the Silence: How to Make Small Plant Mouths that Support Our Sustenance
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, nakanishi.9@osu.edu

October 25, 2022

Jan Lammerding
Cornell University
Squish and squeeze – nuclear mechanobiology in cell migration and muscle disease
Host: MCDB Students, Emily Franz, franz.147@osu.edu

November 1, 2022

Egle Cekanaviciute
NASA Space Biosciences Research Branch
The effect of spaceflight and space radiation on the central nervous system
Host: MCDB Students, Emily Franz, franz.147@osu.edu

November 8, 2022

Enrique De La Cruz
Yale School of Medicine
How cells use chemistry and physics to break and remodel the bones that power their movements
Host: Sarah Heissler, Sarah.Heissler@osumc.edu

November 15, 2022

Benjamin Gewurz
Harvard Cancer Center & Bringham & Women's Hospital
Epigenetic and Metabolomic Programming of Epstein-Barr virus Latency States
Host: Jian Zhu, Jian.Zhu@osumc.edu

December 6, 2022

Yifan Cheng
University of California-San Francisco
Single particle cryo-EM of TRPV1: from atomic structures to gating mechanism
Host: Tianmin Fu, fu.978@osu.edu