Harold Fisk Recipient of Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award!

Dr. Harold Fisk was chosen by the Ohio Cancer Research Associates to win the Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award. This award is presented to a promising young investigator who best exemplifies the motto of the organization, "Give New Ideas a Chance".  Harold received a two-year research grant from Ohio Cancer Research Associates, and after the first year, he leveraged the work to obtain an R01 from NIH.  He will accept this award at the black tie optional gala to be held June 18 at the Hilton Easton. Congratulations to Harold!!!!

Thursday, June 18 2009

Undergraduate Major Places Third in Denman!

Jewell Gaulding, undergraduate major in the laboratory of Gustavo Leone, placed third in the 2009 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for her research presentation of "Role of E1F1 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma" in the medicine category.  Congratulations, Jewell!

Monday, May 18 2009

Two Faculty Nominated for Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

Dr. Helen Chamberlin, Associate Professor and Dr. Harold Fisk, Assistant Professor, have been nominated for the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.  Congratulations!

Tuesday, May 12 2009

Textbooks for Courses

SUMMER 2009

MG500C     Pierce, Benjamin.  Genetics:  A Conceptual Approach Pierce Gen 3eLL @OSU & eBook.  OSU Edition, Publisher: Freeman.  ISBN# 1-14292-3897-6  Book Required

AUTUMN 2009

MG500C     Pierce, Benjamin.  Genetics:  A Conceptual Approach Pierce Gen 3eLL @OSU & eBook.  OSU Edition, Publisher: Freeman.  ISBN# 1-14292-3897-6  (Book Required)

MG607      Alberts, Bruce.  Molecular Biology of the Cell  5th Edition.  Publisher:  Garland Science.  ISBN# 978-0-8153-4105-5. (Book Required)

MG650      LeBlanc, David.   Statistics:  Concepts & Applications for Science  Publisher: Tichenor.  ISBN# 10-1-4275-2036-4  (Book Required)

MG660       Alberts, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, Walter.  Molecular Biology of the Cell  2008.  Publisher:  Library of Congress.  ISBN# 978-0-8153-4106-2  (Book Required)

 MG701     Hartwell, L. et al.  Genetics from Genes to Genomes.  Third edition.  McGraw-Hill.  ISBN# 9780073227382 (Book Optional)

Monday, May 11 2009

Falkenthal Graduate Research Colloquium

Our 2009 Falkenthal Graduate Research Colloquium was held May 2, 2009.  Dr. Robert Strausberg, Deputy Director and Group Leader of Genomic Medicine at the J. Craig Venter Institute was the keynote speaker.  Dr. Strausberg, a graduate of OSU, oversees the operations of the J. Craig Ventor Institute and leads the institute's research program in human genomic medicine.

Winners:

Maurisa Riley, first place in the Third Year Competition

Christopher Kasbek, tied for first place in the Fifth Year Competition        

Sarine Markossian, tied for first place in the Fifth Year Competition

Oliver Voss, third place in the Fifth Year Competition

Congratulations to the winners!        

 

 

Monday, May 11 2009

Recent Publications!

Booton, G.C., C.E. Joslin, M. Schoff, E.Y. Tu, D.J. Kelly and P.A. Fuerst.  2009.  Genotyic identification of Acanthamoeba sp. isolates associated with an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis.  Cornea 28:673-676.

Johnson, R.W., L.Y. Liu, W. Hann-Rose, H.M. Chamberlin.  2009.  The Caenorhabditis elegans heterochronic gene lin-14 coordinates temporal progression and maturation in the egg-laying system.  Dev. Dyn 238:394-404.   Published Online: Jan 22 2009 8:08PM (selected for Highlight in Developmental Dynamics)

Ukil, L., C. De Souza, H-L. Liu and S.A. Osmani.  Nucleolar separation from chromosomes during Aspergillus nidulans mitosis can occur without spindle forces.  InCytes in MBC (nominated for Paper of the Year) and ASCB Newsletter.

Bisaro, D.M., et al.  Geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins suppress transcriptional gene silencing and cause genome-wide reductions in cytosine methlation.  J. Virol.  (Selected for inclusion in "Spotlite", a feature in the Journal that highlights research articles of significant interest).

Wednesday, March 11 2009

RNA Fellowship Awarded!

Hui-Yi Chu, an MCDB student in Anita Hopper's laboratory, has been selected as an RNA Fellow for the period of January 1 to December 31, 2009.   This fellowship has been awarded by the Center for RNA Biology at Ohio State.  Congratulations!

Wednesday, January 7 2009

Congratulations to Anita Hopper Elected to AAAS Fellow

Dr. Anita Hopper, Professor and Chair, has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow.  She is being honored for distinguished contributions to the fields of molecular genetics and cell biology, particularly for the elucidation of mechanisms that control the distribution of transfer RNA.

Friday, December 5 2008

Welcome to new faculty members!

Dr. Jian-Qiu Wu joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. Dr. Wu joins us from Yale University where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher for five years. His research includes the roles of signaling and cytoskeletal proteins in cell polarization and cell division.

Dr. Amanda Bird joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Human Nutrition.  Dr. Bird comes to OSU from the University of Utah where she was a Research Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher.  Her research includes sensing of metal elements by eukaryotes; regulatory roles of novel RNAs and small proteins. 

 

Dr. Maki Asano joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry October 1, 2008.  Dr. Asano was a Research Assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Center.  Her research includes cell cycle regulation in metazoans during development.

  

Dr. Robin Wharton will join the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Depatment of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry in January 2009.  Dr. Wharton comes from Duke University Medical Center where he has been a Professor and a Howard Hughes Investigator for the last 15 years.

Monday, November 17 2008

Congratulations to our recent Ph.D.'s!

Jennifer Carmichael (MG student in Paul Fuerst's lab) received her Ph.D. Winter 2008.  She has a postdoctoral researcher position in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, Irvine.

Hongtao Jia (MCDB student in Helen Chamberlin's lab) received his Ph.D. Winter 2008.  He has a position at OSU's Comprehensive Cancer Center as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

Sama Sleiman (MCDB student in Helen Chamberlin's lab) received her Ph.D. Winter 2008.  She holds a postdoctoral researcher position  at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Kristin Armstrong (MG student in Helen Chamberlin's lab) received her Ph.D. Summer 2008.  She is a postdoctoral researcher at Children's Hospital.

Ryan Johnson (MG student in Helen Chamberlin's lab) received his Ph.D. Summer 2008.  He has a postdoctoral position at Children's Hospital.

Shih-Shih Chen (MG student in Christoph Plass' lab) received her Ph.D. Summer 2008.  She holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Feinstein Institute.

Steven Justiniano (MG student in Amanda Simcox's lab) received his Ph.D. Summer 2008. He holds a postdoctoral researcher position at OSU's Pulmonary Division.

Tania Nayak (MG student from Berl Oakley's lab) received her Ph.D. Summer 2008.  She now holds a position at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Litty Paul (MCDB student from Amanda Simcox's lab) received her Ph.D. Summer 2008.  She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah.

Joseph Stephan (MCDB student from Paul Herman's lab) received his Ph.D. Summer 2008.  He now holds the position of Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Molecular Genetics, OSU.

Komudi Singh (MG student from Hay-Oak Park's lab) will receive her Ph.D. Autumn 2008.  She has a position of Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Molecular Genetics, OSU.

Xin Li (MCDB student from Helen Chamberlin's lab) received her Ph.D. Autumn 2008.  She has a position of Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Tahera Zabuawala (MG student in Michael Ostrowski's) will receive her Ph.D. Autumn 2008.

Congratulations to all!

 

Monday, November 17 2008

Welcome to the 2008-2009 Graduate Class!

Welcome to our 2008-2009 Graduate Class:

Kate Ehrensberger from Clarion University,

Huayang Liu from Tsinghua University

Antony Miller from the University of North Carolina

Dwitiya Sawant from Wayne State University

Ghada Sharif from the University of Michigan

Monday, November 17 2008