Autumn 2023 schedule
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4-5pm in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI)
August 29, 2023
Venkatesan Sundaresan
University of California-Davis
Gametes to Zygotes to Self-Cloning Plants 
Host: Shujun Ou, ou.195@osu.edu
September 5, 2023 - MCDB Specific
NO SEMINAR TODAY
September 12, 2023 - In room 160 Meiling Hall, 370 W. 9th Avenue
Zhijian Chen 
UT Southwestern 
DNA immunity - from human cGAS to bacterial cBASS 
Host: Shan-Lu Liu, liu.6244@osu.edu 
September 19, 2023
Lu Bai 
Penn State University 
Pioneer factor binding specificity and 3D Genome mapping 
Host: Ben Stanton, Benjamin.Stanton@nationwidechildrens.org 
September 26, 2023
Jeff Baker 
Penn State University 
A Century of Breakthrough Biotechnology: The Insulin Story 
Host: David Wood, wood.750@osu.edu 
October 3, 2023- MCDB Specific
MCDB Student- Salma Abdelbaky and Hsiang Yin Hsueh
MCDB Internship Search Workshop
Host: Tony Brown and Dawn Chandler 
October 10, 2023
Lewis Kay 
University of Toronto 
Structure Biology in the Post AlphaFold2 Era: the Important Role of NMR  
Host: OSBP Students 
October 17, 2023
Joshua Bailey
Ohio State University 
Counseling and Consultation Service Workshop
October 24, 2023
Gustavo Silva 
Duke University 
Ubiquitin and the Reprogramming of Protein Synthesis During Oxidative Stress 
Host: Michael Kearse, michael.kearse@osumc.edu 
October 31, 2023
Ben O'Shaughnessy 
Columbia University 
Mechanical Cellular Forces: from Neurotransmission to Embryogenesis   
Host: Jian-Qiu Wu, wu.620@osu.edu 
November 7, 2023- MCDB Specific
MCDB 3MT- 3-Minute Thesis Event 
Host: Tony Brown and Dawn Chandler 
November 14, 2023
Ed Chouchani 
Harvard Medical School 
A Mechanism of Lactate Regulation over Protein Function, Cell Cycle, and Proliferation 
Host: MCDB Student, Ashley Francois 
November 28, 2023
Vincent Tagliabracci 
UT Southwestern 
The mechanism of RNA capping by SARS-CoV-2   
Host: Tianmin Fu, fu.978@osu.edu 
December 5, 2023- MCDB Specific
Phoebe Rice
University of Chicago 
Regulating site-specific DNA recombinases - How do they know which way to go?
Host: Mark Foster, foster.281@osu.edu