Doctoral Defense Announcement 2020
Congratulations to our students below who successfully defended their dissertation.
Dr. Michael Motley
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Bettina C. Fries
The Graduate Program of Microbiology & Immunology
Title: The role of anti-capsular antibodies in protection against carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae
Dr. Michael Li
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Seeliger
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: Detecting and inhibiting serine hydrolases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dr. Derek Cheng
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Advisor: Dr. David Tuveson
The Graduate Program ofGenetics
Title: Proximity Labeling Reveals Oncogenic KRAS interactors in Pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma cells
Dr. Rachel Kery
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Shaoyu Ge
The Graduate Program of Neurobiology & Behavior
Title: The Secret Puppet Master: Unraveling the Anterograde Outputs of the Zona Incerta
Dr. Michael Tyler Guinn
Friday, April 17, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Gabor Balazsi
The Graduate Program of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Engineering Human Cells with Synthetic Gene Circuits Elucidates How Protein Levels
Generate Phenotypic Landscapes
Dr. Mikhail Gurevich
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Advisor: David Komatsu
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: Pharmacologic Interventions for Improving Outcomes After Peripheral Nerve Injury: Leupeptin
and Indinavir
Dr. Agatha Lyczek
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Markus Seeliger
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: Investigating imatinib-resistant mutations in Abl kinase
Dr. Young Jin Kim
Friday, February 28, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Adrian Krainer
The Graduate Program of Genetics
Title: Targeting Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay for Cystic Fibrosis Therapy
Dr. Kelvin Chan
Friday, January 31, 2020
Advisor: Dr. Lonnie Wollmuth
The Graduate Program of Neuroscience
Title: Mechanism of lupus autoantibodies on NMDA receptor specificity and function
Doctoral Defense Announcement 2019
Dr. Allen Yu
Monday, July 15, 2019
Advisor: Dr. David Spector
The Graduate Program of Genetics
Title: Characterization of long non-coding RNAs in pluripotency and hepatocellular carcinoma
Dr. Eric Roth
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Advisor: Dr. Michael Frohman
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: The role of phospholipase D in breast cancer growth & metastasis
Dr. Jason Carter
Monday, July 1, 2019
Advisor: Dr. Mickey Atwal
The Graduate Program of Applied Math & Statistics
Title: Single-cell sequencing, machine learning, and statistical modeling provide insight into the paired αβ TCR repertoire and cancer genomics
Dr. John Psonis
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Advisor: Dr. David Thanassi
The Graduate Program of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Title: Inhibition of Pilus Assembly by Nitazoxanide
Dr. Alexander Jares
Monday, Feb. 27, 2019
Advisor: Dr. Yupo Ma
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: "Engineering stem cell lines for regenerative medicine"
Dr. Chang Kyung (Joanna) Kim
Friday, March 8, 2019
Advisor: Dr. Vincent Yang
The Graduate Program of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Title: "The role of Kruppel-like factor 5 in intestinal stem cell stemness"
