Presentations 2011-2012

September 15	PI Speaker, Jill Rafael-Fortney, Ph.D. Ohio State University “Preclinical therapeutic effects of spironolactone and lisinopril on dystrophic skeletal muscles and heart: An update”	Children’s WA 1525
October 20	Special Wellstone Seminar Series Lecture Dongsheng Duan, Ph.D. University of Missouri “AAV gene therapy for the treatment of DMD”	Children’s Auditorium
November 10	Trainee Poster Day and Outside Speaker Ronald Cohn, M.D. McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine “Maintaining skeletal muscle mass: Lessons learned from hypotonia, hibernation and aging”.	OSU BRT 115
December 15	PI speaker, Jerry R. Mendell, M.D. Director, Center for Gene Therapy Nationwide Children’s Hospital “Update on molecular approaches to treat muscular dystrophy”	Children’s WA 1525
January 19	Outside Speaker, Alan H. Beggs, Ph.D. Directory, The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research Harvard Medical School “Genetics and therapy of human congenital myopathies”	OSU BRT 105
February 16	Trainee Talks Dawn Delfin, Ph.D. (Rafael Lab) “Cardiac claudin-5 in cardiomyopathy and heart failure” Aishwarya Jacob (Chandler Lab) “Conserved cis elements and modified trans factors dictate MDM2 alternative splicing”	Children’s WA 1525
March 15	Outside Speaker, Melissa Spencer, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles “Inflammatory processes and the role of Ostopontin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy”	Children’s WA 1525
April 12	Outside Speaker, Michael Rudnicki, Ph.D. Director: Regenerative Medicine Program Ottawa Hospital Research Institute “Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells”	OSU BRT 115
May 17	PI speaker, Tim Hewett Director of Research Sports Medicine Ohio State University “New Strategies for Prevention: Cutting ACL Injury Risk with Newly Sharpened Tools”	Children’s WA 1525
June 21	Speaker, Christopher Pierson, M.D., Ph.D. Nationwide Children’s Hospital “Myotubular Myopathy”	OSU BRT 105