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

Presentations 2015-2016

September 10th
Dawn Chandler, PhD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
“Understanding stress-induced pathways in SMA for novel therapeutic interventions”
NCH WA1525
October 8th

Trainee Presentations
Eric Pozsgai (Rodino-Klapac lab)
“Beta-sarcoglycan gene therapy leads to histological and functional Improvements in LGMD2E mice”

Mona El-Rafaey (Han Lab)
“CRISPR-Mediated Genome Editing Offers
a Novel Therapy for Duchenne Muscular
Dystrophy”

NCH WA1525
November 12th
Trainee Poster Day
GRIGGS
BOATHOUSE
December 10th

Trainee Presentations
Liubov Gushchina, PhD (Weisleder Lab)
“Therapeutic effect of acute MG53 administration in a mouse model of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2B (LGMD2B)”

Jessica Chadwick (Rafael-Fortney Lab)
“Mineralocorticoid Receptors in Skeletal Muscle

NCH WA 1525
February 11th
Shihuan Kuang, PhD.
Purdue University
“Genetic and epigenetic regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells”
NCH WA1525
February 25th
Jeffrey Dilworth, PhD
Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
“Epigenetic regulation of satellite cell-mediated muscle regeneration” 
OSU BRT 105
March 10th

Trainee Presentations
Jarod Talbot, PhD (Amacher Lab)
“Muscle fiber type influences zebrafish development and disease”

Carlee Schaefer (Harper Lab)
“Defining the functional overlap between mouse Dux and human DUX4”

OSU BRT 105
March 31st
Jonathon Hill, PhD
Brigham Young University
Genetic and Genomic Analysis of
Heart Development in Zebrafish
OSU JAMES L035
April 14th
Douglas Millay, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
“Regulation of Myomaker function”
NCH WA1525
May 12th
Mary Baylies, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Regulation of Muscle Size and Organization during Development and in Disease”
OSU BRT 105
June 9th

Trainee Presentations
Corey Ruhno (Burghes Lab)
“Identification of Modifiers of Spinal Muscular Atrophy”

Michael Berberoglu (Amacher Lab)
Satellite-like cells and their regulation during
regeneration and disease in adult zebrafish
skeletal muscle

NCH WA1525