2024 PhD Thesis Defenses
MATANEL YHESKEL
Thesis Title: Leveraging Patient Intellectual Disability-Associated Variants to Uncover Novel Roles of the Histone Demethylase KDM5 in Drosophila
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Genetics
SHIVANI KHAROD
Thesis Title: Role of Fragile X Ribonucleoprotein and Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Local Translation Regulation and Plasticity in the Mature Mammalian Presynaptic Terminal
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy Center
Laboratories of Drs. Pablo Castillo and Robert H. Singer
PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
RYAN GRAFF
Thesis Title: Platelet PI3Kβ Regulates Breast Cancer Metastasis
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Drs. Jonathan Backer and Anne Bresnick
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
ALEXANDER FERRENA
Thesis Title: Molecular and Clinical Implications of Skp2 Inhibition in Osteosarcoma
Date: Monday, May 13, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Drs. Deyou Zheng and Bang Hoang
PhD Candidate, Department of Clinical Investigation
CHRISTIAN LAVADOS JER
Thesis Title: The Role of SLIRP and Its Phosphorylation in the Regulation of Mitophagy
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Time: 10:00am
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Rajat Singh
PhD Candidate, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
VERONICA VEKSLER
Thesis Title: Characterizing the Role of CD14+CD16+ Monocytes in HIV-associated Neurocognitive Impairment in the Context of Viral Suppression
Date: Friday, April 26, 2024
Time: 9:00am
5th Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer
Laboratory of Dr. Joan Berman
PhD Candidate, Department of Pathology
JEB ENGLISH
Thesis Title: Thrombopoietin-Mimetic Provides Protection Against Radiation-Induced Multi-Organ Injury
Date: Monday, April 15, 2024
Time: 10:00am
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Chandan Guha
PhD Candidate, Department of Pathology
SHIRA GLUSHAKOW-SMITH
Thesis Title: Leveraging the PI3Kinase Pathway in Targeting Leukemic and pre-Leukemic Stem Cells
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
Time: 1:15pm
5th Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer
Laboratories of Drs. Kira Gritsman and Amit Verma
PhD Candidate, Department of Cell Biology
NOURA GHAZALE
Thesis Title: Delineating RNASEH1-R-loop Interactions In Vivo
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Drs. Teresa Bowman and Robert H. Singer
PhD Candidate, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
NOËLIE CAYLA
Thesis Title: Exploring the Cerebellar Projections to the Hypothalamus: An Anatomy, Physiology, and Behavior Investigation
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy Center
PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
RUIXUAN WANG
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Age-Related Intestinal Decline and Its Role in Alzheimer's Disease.
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Derek Huffman
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
ZACHARY FLAMHOLZ
Thesis Title: Towards the Utilization of Uncultivated Bacteriophages for Translational Applications in Human Health and Disease
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Time: 9:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Libusha Kelly
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Systems & Computational Biology
BRETT BELL
Thesis Title: Radiobiological Investigations of Orthovoltage X-Rays, Proton FLASH, and Carbon Ion Radiotherapy
Date: Monday, February 12, 2024
Time: 10:00am
3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer
Laboratory of Dr. Chandan Guha
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Pathology
MORAIS BROWN
Thesis Title: Protein Dynamics, Transition-States, and Inhibitor Binding in Methylthioadenosine Nucleosidases
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 11:00am
1st Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Vern Schramm
PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry
JOSHUA REYNOLDS
Thesis Title: Interleukin-6 at the Crossroads Between Choroid Plexus Clearance Deficits and Cognitive Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Lupus
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Drs. Chaim Putterman and Myles Akabas
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
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