Autumn 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
DNA replication fork protection by the DNA repair protein RAD52 and its potential as an anticancer drug target
Host: Mark Foster, Ph.D., foster.281@osu.edu
September 2, 2025
Tim McKinsey, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Denver
Regulation of Cardiometabolic Signaling by an Unusual Post-Translational Modification
Host: MCDB students, mcdb@osu.edu
September 9, 2025
Olga Anczukȯw, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomics
Targeting splicing-factory regulatory networks in aging and cancer
Host: Dawn Chandler, Ph.D., dawn.chandler@nationwidechildrens.org
September 16, 2025
Phillip Zamore, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nothing is ever simple: deciphering the pachytene piRNA pathway in mice
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, Ph.D., nakanishi.9@osu.edu
September 23, 2025
Pedro Batista, Ph.D.
National Institute of Health / National Cancer Institute
A Two-Way Street Between RNA Processing and Metabolism in Kidney Cancer
Host: Jane Jackman, Ph.D., jackman.14@osu.edu
September 30, 2025
Elebeoba May, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Micro to Macro: Models of Infection Response in Individuals with Comorbidities
Host: Adriana Dawes, Ph.D., dawes.33@math.ohio-state.edu
October 7, 2025-OSBP Program Specific
TBD
October 14, 2025
Zhao Zhang, Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine
Mobile Elements in Genome Dynamics and Cancer Therapy: Transposons and ecDNA
Host: Shujun Ou, Ph.D., ou.195@osu.edu
October 21, 2025
Akiko Nishiyama, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the neural network – how they talk to their neighbors
Host: Wenjing Sun, Ph.D., sun.2004@osu.edu
October 28, 2025
Daisuke Kihara, Ph.D.
Purdue University
Title to be announced
Host: Kotaro Nakanishi, Ph.D., nakanishi.9@osu.edu
November 4, 2025-OSBP Program Specific
TBD
November 18, 2025
Jeanne Stachowiak, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
Intrinsic disorder as an organizing principle in membrane biology
Host: Emanuele Cocucci, MD, Ph.D., cocucci.1@osu.edu
December 2, 2025
Mark Bayfield, Ph.D.
York University
Title to be announced
Host: Jane Jackman, Ph.D., jackman.14@osu.edu
December 9, 2025
Robert Hill, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College
The life and death of an oligodendrocyte
Host: Wenjing Sun, sun.2004@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 Biophysics, MCDB and OSBP. Travel arrangements for MLS seminar are handled by Amanda Hargett, MCDB Program Manager, Kiley Morgan-Myrick, Biophysics 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, Adriana Dawes (dawes.33@math.ohio-state.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 Biophysics, MCDB and OSBP graduate students.