Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series

Spring 2022 schedule

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

January 25, 2022

Ed Boyden
MIT
Optical tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems
Host: Yizhou Dong, dong.525@osu.edu

February 1, 2022

Rong Li
George Washington School of Medicine & Health Science
Breaking down cancer defense line against anti-tumor immune infiltration
Host: Gunjan Agarwal, agarwal.60@osu.edu

February 15, 2022

Wen Tang
The Ohio State University
Birth of germ granules & death of piRNAs
Host: Chuck Bell, bell.489@osu.edu

February 22, 2022

Zihai Li
The Ohio State University
Immunological mechanisms of sex bias in cancer
Host: Tony Brown, brown.2303@osu.edu

March 8, 2022

Brenda Bass
University of Utah
Divergent roles of Dicer’s helicase domain in antiviral defense
Host: Adriana Forero, forero.11@osu.edu

March 22, 2022

E. Dale Abel
UCLA
Glucose metabolism and heart failure
Host: Chuck Bell, bell.489@osu.edu

March 29, 2022

Peter Tontonoz
UCLA
New pathways in cellular and systemic lipid transport
Host: Jie Gao, jie.gao@osumc.edu

April 5, 2022

Brian Black
UCSF
Injury-responsive enhancers promote heart regeneration in zebrafish
Host: Mingtao Zhao, Mingtao.Zhao@NationwideChildrens.org

April 12, 2022

Gloria Brar
UC Berkeley
Unraveling the unconventional molecular circuitry underlying meiosis
Host: Michael Kearse, Michael.kearse@osumc.edu

April 19, 2022

Scott Kennedy
Harvard
Poly(UG)-tailed RNAs in genome defense and epigenetic inheritance
Host: Wen Tang, tang.542@osu.edu