Spring 2024
• Congratulations to former visiting summer student Sarah for deciding on WashU in St. Louis for graduate school!
• Congratulations to Mia for deciding on OSU and the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Program for graduate school!
• Daisy successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Grove!!
• Morgan Buchman joins the lab for her PhD research! Welcome back!
• Paul gives a great fellowship talk during the Center for RNA Biology seminar series.
• Kenzie successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Scarpitti!!
• The lab hosts Dr. Katrin Karbstein from University of Florida Scripps Research Institute for the Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series.
• Daisy and Paul’s review on alternative translation initiation factors in WIREs RNA is accepted! Congrats to you both!!
• Runwei Zhou and Callie Barber decide mRNA translation and ribosomes are the coolest and start in the lab for their last rotation. Welcome!!
• Carter Flora, a freshman Biomedical Sciences major, joins the lab for his undergraduate research experience.
• A collaborative President's Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator proposal with Dr. JC Jang and Dr. Venkat Gopalan was awarded!

Autumn 2023
• Julia shares her recent work in joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.
• Morgan, Julia, Paul, and Mike attend the 25th Rustbelt RNA Meeting. Julia and Paul present posters on their recent work.
• The lab hosts Dr. Gustavo Silva from Duke University for the MSL Seminar Series.
• Morgan Buchman starts her 2nd rotation in the lab. Welcome!
• Mike shares some of the labs recent progress at joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.
• The lab presents our recent work at the 2023 Translational Control Meeting at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. Kenzie gave a talk, and Julia, Paul, & Mike presented posters.
• Led by Drs. Bell, Fu, Goldman, Kearse, Parthun, & Wang, the Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology is awarded $1M seed funding to establish the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Function. This new center will foster interdisciplinary connections and expand protein research across the university by serving as a hub for collaborative research at Ohio State. By housing state-of-the-art instrumentation and making protein purification and characterization accessible to all faculty, the center will extend the benefits of structural studies and biochemical characterization to a broader segment of the university’s research community, strengthening cross-disciplinary interaction.

July & August 2023
• MK McCulloch and Madeline Burghaze decide RNA biology is the best and start in the lab for their first rotation. Welcome!
• Daisy’s paper (with Daniel) describing new insights into the mRNA translation factor eIF2A is accepted at Nucleic Acids Research! Congrats to Daisy and Daniel!
• Congratulations to Julia for passing her PhD candidacy exams!!!

May & June 2023
• Congrats to former lab research assistant Lainie for passing her candidacy exams at Utah!
• Julia is awarded a Center for RNA Biology Fellowship! Congratulations!!
• Congratulations to Paul for winning a 1st place Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at this year’s OSU Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium.
• Daisy is selected by the faculty and her peers to be a plenary speaker for Biochemistry PhD Program at the OSU Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium!! Great job, Daisy! And wins an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award!
• Kenzie gives a talk, and Daisy, Paul, and Julia present posters at this year’s Center for RNA Biology and Cellular, Molecular, and Biochemical Sciences Training Program Symposium.

March & April 2023
• Mike gives an invited seminar at ReviR Therapeutics (San Francisco, CA).
• Kenzie’s invited method paper detailing how to assess stalled/slowed ribosomes in vitro is accepted at Bio-protocol. Congratulations!
• Mike gives an invited seminar at Saint Louis University.
• Paul’s paper in RNA is now online!

February 2023
• Kenzie shares her recent work at joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.
• Paul’s paper (with Lainie and our friends down the hall from the Burghes Lab) describing how translation re-initiation after uORFs does not robustly protect mRNAs from nonsense-mediated decay is accepted at RNA! Congrats to everyone!!
• Daisy shares her work during OSBP recruitment, Mike also gives a short lab talk.

January 2023
• The lab’s recent work on FMRP and translational repression is featured by the OSU Medical Center Research News.
• The lab hosts Dr. Jon Dinman from the University of Maryland for the Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series.
• Mike gives an invited seminar at Tufts University School of Medicine and shares some of the lab’s recent work.

December 2022
• Kenzie is awarded the Johnson Academic Excellence Award for being voted as the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology.
• The lab hosts Dr. Eugene Valkov from the NCI for the Center for RNA Biology Seminar Series.
• Mike presents some of the lab’s new work at the department’s Research in Progress Seminar Series.

November 2022
• Daisy’s paper with Daniel biochemically investigating the enigmatic eIF2A is posted on bioRxiv and submitted for peer review.
• An updated version of Paul’s paper with Lainie and our friends down the hall from the Burghes Lab investigating uORF length, re-initiation, and mRNA stability is posted on bioRxiv and re-submitted for peer review.
• Mike guest lectures in Biochem/BioPharm 6701 on Translation and Translational Control.

October 2022
• Kenzie’s paper with Julia and Elly on FMRP-mediated translational repression is accepted at The Journal of Biological Chemistry and is selected as a JBC Editors’ Pick!! Congratulations to you all! This is the labs first independent research paper and was started from scratch at OSU.
• Mike presents some of the lab’s new work on ribosome turnover during joint group meeting.

September 2022
• The lab hosts the OSU Molecular Genetics Club. Great to meet and chat with the next generation of researchers!
• The lab attends and presents (in person!) at the CSHL conference on Translational Control. Daisy, Kenzie, and Paul present posters on their recent work.
• A bittersweet farewell to Sarah after a fun and productive summer in the lab. Best of luck in your junior year at Knox.

August 2022
• The lab is awarded a 5-year R35 MIRA grant from the NIH. Thank you to the entire team for their hard work and helping to make this happen!! Lots of exciting research to come!

July 2022
• Darren Webb joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome!!

June 2022
• Sarah Hoffmann-Weitsman, a biochemistry major from Knox College, starts her summer research in the lab. Welcome!

May 2022
• Daisy and Paul present posters of their research at this year’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium. Paul win’s a poster prize…congrats!
• Congratulations to Paul (as well as to Ben & Ian from Wen Tang’s lab and Fawwaz from Kurt Fredrick’s lab) for being awarded a Center for RNA Biology Fellowship!
• Pallavi Chandna starts her rotation in lab. Welcome!!
• Kenzie wins a Best Poster Presentation Prize at this year’s CMBP and CRB Symposium. Congrats!
• Daisy, Paul, and Kenzie present posters of their recent work and Mike gives a student-selected faculty talk at the annual CMBP and CRB Symposium on campus.

April 2022
• The lab hosts Dr. Gloria Brar from UC Berkeley for the Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series.
• Julia shares her work since joining the lab in fall at the last joint group meeting of the academic year.
• Kenzie presents a “flash” presentation as part of the Inaugural Arthur H.M. Burghes Lectureship.

March 2022
• Paul presents his recent work at joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Ibba, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.

February 2022
• Kenzie presents her current work as an RNA Fellow in the Center for RNA Biology seminar series.
• Paul presents his third year talk in the CMBP Fellowship meeting.
• The lab presents and contributes to OSBP and BSGP recruitment events. Good luck to all the applicants!

November 2021
• Daisy shares her recent progress in joint group meeting.
• Congrats to Paul for passing his candidacy exams!

October 2021
• Julia realizes she loves all things RNA and joins the lab for her PhD research. Welcome back!

September 2021
• The lab hosts Dr. Sarah Slavoff from Yale University for the Molecular Life Sciences Seminar Series.
• Kenzie presents her recent work at joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Ibba, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.
• Daisy, Paul, and Kenzie present their current work at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting. Mike gives an invited talk to to close out the RNA in Health and Disease session.
• Kenzie presents her work at the EMBL Conference on Protein Synthesis and Translational Control.

August 2021
• Mike and family host the lab to celebrate its 2nd anniversary, the students’ grit throughout the pandemic, candidacy exams, fellowships, grad student rotations, and submission of the lab’s first paper from work solely done at OSU.
• Julia wraps up her fantastic rotation working with Kenzie. Good luck on rotation #2. We hope to see you again soon in Rightmire.

July 2021
• Daisy passes her PhD candidacy exams. Congratulations!
• Daniel Levine (Biochemistry major) joins the lab to get his feet wet in research.

June 2021
• Julia Warrick starts her summer BSGP rotation in the lab. Welcome!!

May 2021
• Paul is awarded another year of support from CMBP. Congrats! (And thank you CMBP!!)
• Congrats to Kenzie for passing her PhD candidacy exams!
• A true bittersweet moment as we say farewell to Lainie as she heads off to graduate school at Utah. We all wish you the best of luck!

May 2021
• The lab hosts Dr. Tony Mustoe from Baylor College of Medicine for the Center for RNA Biology Seminar Series.
• Daisy’s preview in Cell Chemical Biology is online!

March 2021
• Kenzie shares her recent research progress in joint group meeting & happy hour.
• Elly Yoder (Biomedical Science major) decides to join the lab! This competitive major through the College of Medicine accepts ~25 freshman each year and integrates mentored biomedical research throughout the curriculum.
• Lainie finishes her action-packed schedule of graduate school interviews across the country…virtually, missing out on a ton of frequent flyer miles and jet lab. Congrats, Lainie!

January 2021
• Mike guest lectures in this year’s post-transcriptional gene regulation graduate course.
• Mike presents some of the lab’s new work in OSU’s Molecular Life Science Seminar Series (a joint seminar series of the OSBP and MCDB PhD programs).

December 2020
• The lab has the annual winter holiday celebration—this time a physically distanced lunch and a virtual science/lab trivia for holiday prizes (Mike forgot to snap a picture, again). Daisy takes the win!
• Daisy presents her recent research progress in joint group meeting & happy hour.
• Mike presents some of the lab’s new work at the department’s Research in Progress Seminar Series.

October 2020
• In lieu of a typical lab outing, we have a physically-distanced lab lunch. This time, we empirically test which Columbus pizza is better—Kenzie’s favorite, Plank’s Cafe, or Lainie’s go-to choice, Ohio State Pizza.
• Kenzie and Mike attend this year’s virtual Rustbelt RNA Meeting. Kenzie presents some of her initial thesis work.
• Mike gives a short talk to the CMBP Fellowship group.
• Paul presents his recent research progress in joint group meeting with the Artsimovitch, Fredrick, Ibba, Musier-Forsyth, and Nakanishi labs.

August 2020
•Lainie Boyle joins the team as a research assistant. Welcome!!

June 2020
•The lab celebrates it’s one year birthday (includes Mike’s delayed arrival and knee surgery) and a slow return to research from the pandemic shutdown with two competitive graduate fellowships— Paul is awarded a CMBP Fellowship and Kenzie is awarded a Center for RNA Biology Fellowship! Congratulations to you both!!

March 2020
• Pre-pandemic, the lab goes to the annual Michigan at Ohio State basketball game. Paul survives wearing Blue & Maize while surrounded by Scarlet & Gray. OSU wins 63-77.

February 2020
• Paul decides Michigan Biochemistry alumni need to stick together to survive in the Buckeye Nation and joins the lab for his PhD research!
• And it’s finally online! - A native function for RAN translation and CGG repeats in regulating fragile X protein synthesis. Congratulations Caitlin & Shannon et al.!!
• Mike guest lectures about translation and translational control in this year’s post-transcriptional gene regulation graduate course.

January 2020
• Mike gives a recruitment talk for the MCDB PhD program.
• Paul Russell rounds out his first-year rotations with us. Welcome!

December 2019
• The lab starts a winter holiday happy hour tradition, this year at Hoof Hearted Brewery and Kitchen, to celebrates the first six months of the lab, PhD students joining the lab, upcoming rotations in January, and the not-so-distant-future defense from Danny (our lab neighbor/cohabitant from the Schoenberg lab). Holiday sweaters were optional this year; required next year.
• Kenzie and Mike attend this year’s BSGP retreat at The James Cancer Hospital Solove Research Institute.

November 2019
• Mike gives an invited seminar at Ball State University (in Muncie, Indiana).
• Kenzie and Daisy realize they love ribosomes & mRNA translation and decide to join the lab for their PhD research!

October 2019
• Daisy and Mike attend this year’s Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Cleveland. Daisy soaks up all the RNA goodness from the local community. Mike serves as chair of the Assembly and Function of Translation Machinery session.
• The last bit of Mike’s postdoc work in Peter Todd’s lab describing how RAN translation at CGG repeats regulates FMRP synthesis is accepted at Nature Neuroscience !
• Kenzie Bevins and Daisy DiVita join us for a first-year rotation. Welcome!
• Collaborative work with Katelyn Green from Peter Todd’s lab using high-throughput screening to identify potential inhibitors of neuropathogenic RAN translation is accepted at JBC.

September 2019
• After 2.5 months of cleaning, ordering, organizing, a safety inspection, and IBC approval, the lab starts running experiments…first with a humble (and successful) PCR reaction.
• The lab’s last piece of major equipment—a new fully-automated Biocomp piston fractionator and flow cell with all the bells and whistles—arrives (coincidentally on Mike's birthday). We are ready for ribosome and polysome profiling!

August 2019
• Our new, top-of-the-line GloMax Discover multimode microplate reader arrived. It’s capable of it all—UV/Vis absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence, FRET, BRET—and ready for collaborations.
• The lab is now part of the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) PhD program.

July 2019
• The lab is awarded an R00 grant from the NIH to study aberrant translation initiation from atypical start codons!! We are really excited about where this work will take us.
• The lab joins the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP).
• Mike’s recent paper in Genes and Development describing how non-AUG translation can be resistant to potent protein synthesis inhibitors is recommended by F1000.

June 2019
• Mike and family arrive to Columbus. Recruitment for the initial lab members begins. Exciting things to come.
• The lab joins the Ohio State Biochemistry Program (OSBP) and Mike is now a mentoring faculty for PhD students in the program.
• The lab is now an active member of the Center for RNA Biology.
• The Kearse lab officially opens…from afar…until Mike moves from Philly later this month.