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

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

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