Fall 2026 Schedule

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4:10 - 5:05 pm in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI). On Program-specific days, MCDB students will be meeting in 170 DHLRI.

August 25, 2026

Rebecca Roston
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title to be announced
 Host: Shujun Ou, ou.195@osu.edu

September 1, 2026

Siegfried Musser
Texas A & M University
Title to be announced
Host: Li-Chun Tu, tu.277@osu.edu 

September 8, 2026

Banu Ozkan
Arizona State University
Title to be announced
Host: Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, veeraraghavan.12@osu.edu 

September 15, 2026

Jay Xiaojun Tan
University of Pittsburgh
Title to be announced
Host: Luis Bonet-Ponce, Luis.BonetPonce@osumc.edu 

September 22, 2026

Erik Sontheimer
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Title to be announced
Host: Lihua Ye, lihua.ye@osumc.edu 

September 29, 2026

Eric Wagner
University of Rochester
Title to be announced
Host: Ambro van Hoof, vanhoof.3@osu.edu 

October 6, 2026 

Program Specific

October 13, 2026

Darn Larson
NIH NCI
Title to be announced
Host: Ben Stanton, Benjamin.Stanton@Nationwidechildrens.org 

October 20, 2026

Anna Kashina
University of Pennsylvania
Title to be announced
Host: Dmitri Kudryashov, kudryashov.1@osu.edu 

October 27, 2026

Athma Pai
UMass Chan Medical School
Title to be announced
Host: Guramrit Singh, Singh.734@osu.edu 

November 3, 2026 

Program Specific
MCDB - 3MT

November 10, 2026 

Tomas Kirchhausen
Harvard Medical School
Title to be announced
Host: Emanuele Cocucci

November 17, 2026

Geraldine Seydoux
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Title to be announced
Host: MCDB Students

December 1, 2026

Roland Breaker
Yale University
Title to be announced
Host: MCDB Students

December 8, 2026

Jenny Hinshaw
NIH NIDDK
Title to be announced
Host: Krishna Chinthalapudi, chinthalapudi.1@osu.edu 

The MLS series is the joint seminar series of the MCDB program and the Ohio State Biochemistry Program (OSBP) and the Biophysics Program.  Travel arrangements are made by Mandy Hargett (614-292-2804), Lucy Omar (614-292-1463), and Kiley Morgan-Myrick (614-292-5626) who can be reached at mlsseminar@osu.edu. Schedules are coordinated by the host.  Contact the chair of the MLS Seminar Committee, Adriana Dawes (dawes.33@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, OSBP, and Biophysics graduate students.