Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Schedule

Spring 2025 MLS Schedule

MLS Seminars will be held in room 170 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI) from 4:10-5:05p.m., unless otherwise indicated.  

OSBP Specific Seminars will be held in room 165 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute (DHLRI) from 4:10-5:05p.m., unless otherwise indicated. 

August 26, 2025 

Maria Spies, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Host: Mark Foster, foster.281@osu.edu

September 2, 2025

Tim McKinsey, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Denver
Host: MCDB students, mcdb@osu.edu

September 9, 2025 

Olga Anczukȯw, Ph.D. 
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomics
Host: Dawn Chandler, dawn.chandler@nationwidechildrens.org

September 16, 2025 

Phillip Zamore, Ph.D. 
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School 
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, nakanishi@osu.edu

September 23, 2025 

TBD
 

September 30, 2025

Elebeoba May, Ph.D. 
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Adriana Dawes, dawes.33@math.ohio-state.edu

October 7, 2025-OSBP Program Specific

TBD

October 14, 2025

Ronald Waclaw, Ph.D.  
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Host: Rolf Stottmann, rolf.stottmann@nationwidechildrens.org

March 4, 2025 - OSBP Specific

TBD
osbp@osu.edu

March 11, 2025

NO CLASS-SPRING BREAK

March 18, 2025

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

March 25, 2025

Philip A. Cole, Ph.D. 
Harvard Medical School
Host: Nam Chu, nam.chu@osumc.edu

April 1, 2025

TBD
osbp@osu.edu

April 8, 2025

Elçin Ünal, Ph.D.  
University of California, Berkeley
Host: MCDB Student, Kristina Sattler, mcdb@osu.edu

April 15, 2025

Joana Vidigal, Ph.D. 
National Cancer Institute (NCI)-National Institute of Health (NIH)
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, nakanishi.9@osu.edu 

 

Save the Date!

Thursday, May 21, 2026
Life Sciences IGP Annual Symposium
at The Ohio Union

 

The MLS series is the joint seminar series of OSBP and MCDB. Travel arrangements for MLS seminar are handled by Amanda Hargett, MCDB Program Manager, and Lucy Omar, OSBP Program Manager, 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. Speaker nominations of Nobel laureates, NAS members, and HHMI investigators are typically granted 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.