Center for Muscle Health and Neuromuscular Disorders - Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital

Presentations 2010-2011

September 16
Outside Speaker, Lan Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
“CCR2 Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Injury Repair”
OSU BRT 105
October 12

Trainee Presentations
Steve Roof (Ziolo Lab)
“Beneficial Cardiac Effects of Exercise:
Does Nitric Oxide Play a Role?”

Nadine Bakkar, Ph.D. (Guttridge Lab)
“Controlling Skeletal Muscle Energetics by IKKalpha And an Alternative NF-κB Signaling Pathway”

Children’s WA 1525
November 18
Trainee Poster Day and Outside Speaker
Stan Froehner, Ph. D.;
University of Washington
“Nitric Oxide in Skeletal Muscle Function and Disease
Children’s (2-5pm)
December 16
PI speaker, Tom Best, M.D., Ph. D.
Ohio State University
“Modulation of Exercise-Induced Muscle Inflammation and Damage Through Massage-Based Therapies”
Children’s WA 1525
January 20
Outside Speaker, James M. Ervasti, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
“Large Recombinant Proteins as Tools to Understand And Treat Muscular Dystrophy”
OSU BRT 105
February 17

Trainee Presentations
Dawn Delfin, Ph.D. (Rafael-Fortney Lab)
“Sustaining Claudin-5 Levels Prevents Functional & Histological Hallmarks of Heart Failure in Mice with Muscular Dystrophy”

Eric Johnson (Montanaro Lab)
“A Closer Look at the Dystrophin Associated Protein Complex:
Old and New Members”

OSU BRT 105
March 24
Outside Speaker, Alfred Goldberg, Ph. D.
Harvard University
“Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Wasting with Disuse and Cachexia”
Children’s WA 1525
April 21
PI Speaker, Zarife Sahenk, M.D., Ph.D.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
“AAV1.NT-3 Gene Therapy in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy”
OSU BRT 105
May 19
Trainee Presentations
TBA
OSU BRT 105
June 9 PI Speaker, Carsten G. Bönnemann, M.D. University of Pennsylvania
TBA
Children’s WA 1525