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Ohio Physiological Society 37th Annual Meeting

37th OPS Annual Meeting Agenda 

Physiology in Ohio, The Heart of it All 

Friday, October 6, 2023 

  • 5:00pm - 5:40pm Registration and Welcome Reception 
  • 5:45pm – 5:50pm Welcome by Dr. Charles Thodeti 
  • 5:50pm – 6:05pm Opening Remarks by: Dr. Christopher Cooper, Dean, COMLS, UT 
  • 6:15pm - 7:15pm Keynote Seminar; Joseph Wu, M.D. Ph.D., FAHA 
    • “Stem Cells & Genomics: From Precision Medicine to Clinical Trial in Dish” 
  • 7:15pm - 9:15pm Dinner 
  • 9:15pm - Networking and Social hour 

Saturday, October 7, 2023 

  • 8:30am - 9:00am Poster Set-Up Lobby and continental breakfast with coffee 

  • 9:00am – 9:40am Trainee Short Talks Session #1; Undergraduate Students 
    • Moderator(s): Andrea Kalinoski and Venkatesh Katari 
    • 9:00am – 9:10am Talk #1 - Sarena Foreman (Undergraduate Student, Wright State University) 
      Title: Lipin1 Regulates nNOS Activation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 
    • 9:10am – 9:20am Talk #2 - Seth Brunner (Undergraduate Students, University of Cincinnati) 
      Title: Glycoprotein VI Platelet Receptor Blockade Attenuates Progression of Established Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Murine Models 
    • 9:20am – 9:30am Talk #3 - Regan Meyer (Undergraduate Student, Marshall University) 
      Title: The Effects of High Glucose On The Release of Exosomes From Adipocytes 
    • 9:30am – 9:40am Talk #4 - Benjamen Kern (Undergraduate Student, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: MG53 AAV Constructs as a Gene Therapy for Dysferlinopathies 

  • 9:40am – 9:50am Coffee Break 

  • 9:50am – 10:30am Trainee Short Talks Session #2; Graduate Students 
    • Moderator(s): Feng Dong and Shubha Gururaja Rao 
    • 9:50am – 10:00am Talk #5 - Kesha Dalal (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Mechanosensitive Ion Channel TRPV4 Regulates Endothelial Cell Mitochondrial Phenotype 
    • 10:00am – 10:10am Talk #6 - Hebaallaha Hussein (Graduate Student, Ohio University) 
      Title: Identifying Novel Protein in Atherosclerosis Protection 
    • 10:10am – 10:20am Talk #7 - Sachin Aryal (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Epigenetic chronotherapy for hypertension: Sleep-time supplementation of 1,3- Butanediol confers better protection against hypertension via enhanced histone β- hydroxybutyrylation 
    • 10:20am – 10:30am Talk #8 - Nathan Ferguson (Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati) 
      Title: Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Copper Transporter Atp7a via the 3’ Untranslated Region 

  • 10:30am – Noon Poster Session 

  • Noon – 1:00pm Lunch 

  • 1:00pm - 1:40pm Trainee Short Talks Session #3; Post-doctoral Fellows 
    • Moderator(s): Islam Osman and Kalyani Ananthamohan 
    • 1:00pm – 1:10pm Talk #9 - Divya Sridharan (Post-doctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: Improved maturation, survival and engraftment of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes following co-culture with hiPSC-derived mesenchymal stem cells 
    • 1:10pm – 1:20pm Talk #10 - Lakshminarayan Teegala (Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: CysLT1R is essential for optimal TLR4 responses and associated macrophage function in sepsis 
    • 1:20pm – 1:30pm Talk #11 - Veronica Loyo-Celis (Post-doctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: Biophysical Characterization of Chloride Intracellular Channel 6 (CLIC6) 
    • 1:30 pm – 1:40pm Talk #12 - Rathinam Ayyasamy (Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Protecting Bones: Understanding function of 14-3-3ζ in RANKL signaling 

  • 1:45pm - 2:35pm Datablitz (3 min talk) 

  • Moderator(s): Ishan Manandhar and Ishika Puri 
    • Talk #1 - Yuanyuan Cao (Research Assistant, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: A Causal Role of Stress Kinase JNK2 in Suppressed Transcriptional Activity of SERCA2 in Heart Failure 
    • Talk #2 - Nicholas Kesler (Undergraduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Rat Research Models of Health and Disease: Growth Charts and Trajectories of Body Weight Gain across Adulthood 
    • Talk #3 - Yakshkumar Rathod (Graduate Student, Wright State University) 
      Title: Impaired satiation control of feeding precedes the onset of overweight and metabolic dysregulation in mice lacking the Na+K+2Cl– cotransporter-1 in insulin secreting ß-cells 
    • Talk #4 - Jorja Hensley (Undergraduate Student, University of Cincinnati) 
      Title: Fate mapping analyses of MYBPC1 expression by tracking eGFP in various muscles 
    • Talk #5 - Mrunmayee Kandalgaonkar (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Hypertension increases susceptibility to Plasmodium infection in mice 
    • Talk #6 - Suhwan Hong (Undergraduate Student, Denison University) 
      Title: Analyzing the effect of PUFA deficient diets and altered dopamine signaling on Drosophila melanogaster larval crawling behaviors. 
    • Talk #7 - Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Cysteinyl Leukotriene Receptors Promote Melanoma Progression and Metastasis 
    • Talk #8 - Jeniffer Park (Undergraduate Student, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: Pharmacological effects of Isoproterenol on cardiac functions of CLIC4 mice 
    • Talk #9 - Kristoforos Proko (Graduate Student, Ohio University) 
      Title: Developing a Surgical Protocol for Dissecting the Left Internal Mammary Artery from Mice 
    • Talk #10 - Hemaa Sree Kumar (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Development of New Models for Investigation of Host-Microbiota Interactions in Larval Zebrafish 
    • Talk #11 - Dipan Kundu (Graduate Student, Northeast Ohio Medical University) 
      Title: Exosome derived from NAMPT-overexpressed mesenchymal stem cell improves aortic stenosis 
    • Talk #12 - Syed Baseeruddin Alvi (Post-doctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University) 
      Title: Catalyzing Cardiac Recovery: Nanofiber Patch Loaded with Growth Factors 
    • Talk #13 - Venkatesh Katari (Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: TRPV4 channels regulate endothelial autophagy and angiogenesis via YAP/AMPK/mTOR pathway 
    • Talk #14 - Elizabeth Yokum (Graduate Student, University of Dayton) 
      Title: 1H-NMR analysis of fatty acids and neutral lipids in the freeze tolerant Cope’s gray treefrog reveals membrane lipid remodeling is tissue and condition specific in cold-acclimated and frozen and thawed frogs 
    • Talk #15 - Kristina Tarter (Graduate Student, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Analysis of Student Mastery of Basic Science Content in the Neurology Clerkship Shelf Exams 

  • 2:45pm - 3:00pm Coffee Break 

  • 3:00pm - 3:45pm Early Career Investigator Session; Faculty 
    • Moderator(s): Piu Saha and Mahmood Khan 
    • 3:00pm – 3:15pm Talk #1 - Sinead O'Donovan (Assistant Professor, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: Signaling Pathways Underlying the Pathophysiology of Depression 
    • 3:15pm – 3:30pm Talk #2 - Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan (Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati) 
      Title: Sex Differences and Mitochondrial Function 
    • 3:30pm – 3:45pm Talk #3 - Islam Osman (Assistant Professor, The University of Toledo) 
      Title: YAP and Blood Pressure Regulation 

  • 3:45pm – 4:45pm Reception and Award Announcements 
Last Updated: 7/15/24