On May 21, the annual Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Symposium convened at The Ohio State University’s Ohio Union. The symposium highlights the research of the four interdisciplinary graduate programs and features a full day of oral and poster presentations. Following the presentations, an award ceremony highlights student excellence.

Congratulations to our student award winners!

Gianni Giarrano

Plenary Student Presenter Award Winner

Advisor: Christoph Lepper

Antibody Fusion Proteins Containing Domains from the Tripartite Motif Family Protein 72 (TRIM72) Increase Plasma Membrane Repair to Treat Muscle Diseases

Jonathan Montgomery

Parallel Session Student Presenter Award Winner

Advisor: Mark Foster

Autoinhibition Enhances DNA Scanning Rates in Cre Recombinase

Carter Wheat

Poster Presenter Award Winner

Advisor: Chuck Bell

Cryo-EM Structures of Yeast RAD52 Homolog Mgm101 in Complex with DNA Reveal Snapshots of a Full Singlestrand Annealing Pathway

Yi-Hui Wang

Poster Presenter Award Runner Up

Advisor: Wen Tang

An AT-hook Transcription Factor Promotes Transcription of Histone, Spliced-Leader, and piRNA Clusters