2022 PhD Thesis Defenses
LETI NUNEZ
Thesis Title: Regulation of β-actin mRNA by the Insulin-Like Growth Factor II mRNA Binding Protein (IGF2BP1/ZBP1/IMP1)
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Online via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Singer
MD-PhD Student, Department of Cell Biology
JENNA BARNES
Thesis Title: The Role of ESCRT Apparatus in Alphaherpesvirus Envelopment, and Its Use as a Tool to Study Viral Envelopment and Anterograde Trafficking in Neurons
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 10:30 am
Online via Zoom and 1st Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Duncan Wilson
PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
CARL PIERCE
Thesis Title: Mucosal Viruses and Where to Find Them: Novel Insights Into the Interactions of HSV-2 and SARS-CoV-2 With the Host Immune System
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Online via Zoom and Le Frak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Betsy Herold
MD-PhD Student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
ANIELLA MURPHY
Thesis Title: Buprenorphine as a Therapy for Cognitive Impairment for People with HIV
Date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online via Zoom and 1st Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratories of Dr. Joan Berman and Dr. Johanna Daily
PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology and PhD in Clinical Investigation
YINGJIAO XUE
Thesis Title: Cks1N45R KI Blocks Mouse RB1/TRP53-deficient Prostate Cancer Development and Reveals the p27-depended Skp2 Degradation
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online via Zoom and Le Frak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Dr. Liang Zhu and Dr. Edward Schwartzy
PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
GREGORY KRAUSE
Thesis Title: Characterization and Modulation of Selective Forms of Autophagy in Aging
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo
MD-PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
REANNA DONA-TERMINE
Thesis Title: Understanding Extrinsic Influences on Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms Using Cellular Models
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm
Online via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
MD-PhD Student, Department of Genetics
TAYLOR THOMPSON
Thesis Title: Identification of Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms of an Obesogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemical
Date: Monday, July 25, 2022
Time: 3:00 pm
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
MD-PhD Student, Department of Genetics
JOHN BARBARO
Thesis Title: The Impact of Methamphetamine, Opioids, and Antiviral Compounds on HIV Pathogenesis in Human Macrophages
Date: Friday, July 15, 2022
Time: 9:30 am
Online Via Zoom and 5th Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Joan Berman
MD-PhD Student, Department of Pathology
EMILIO MERHEB
Thesis Title: Understanding the Pathogenesis of Pol III-related Leukodystrophy
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Ian Willis
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
LINDSAY GURSKA
Thesis Title: Targeting Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online Via Zoom and 5th Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Kira Gritsman
PhD Student, Department of Cell Biology
VANESSA CHILUNDA
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Methamphetamine Mediated HIV Neuropathogenesis
Date: Monday, July 11, 2022
Time: 9:30 am
Online Via Zoom and 5th Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Joan Berman
PhD Student, Department of Pathology
GEORGE GEORGIEV
Thesis Title: Resurfaced Zika Virus EDIII Nanoparticle Immunogens Elicit Protective and Immune-Focused Responses in vivo
Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm
Online Via Zoom and 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Forchheimer Building
Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Lai
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
KIERSTEN CARTER
Thesis Title: Dissection of the EGF/EGFR Pathway in Tumor Cell Tunneling Nanotubes
Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Online Via Zoom and Robbins Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Singer
PhD Student, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
ZHIXIN JING
Thesis Title: Long-Lived Plasma Cell Fate Decision: From Germinal Center Selection to Bone Marrow Survival Niche
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. David Fooksman
PhD Student, Department of Pathology
PHILIP GALBO
Thesis Title: Cancer Associated Fibroblasts: Functional Diversity Across Cancer Types and Roles in Glioblastoma
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Time: 10:30 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratories of Dr. Deyou Zheng and Dr. Xingxing Zang
PhD Student, Department of Genetics
CHARLES JAKUBIK
Thesis Title: Regulation of Invadopodia Signaling and Macrophage-Tumor Cell Interactions by PI3Kß
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Time: 12:30 pm
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratories of Dr. Anne Bresnick and Dr. Jonathan Backer
MD-PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
CARA REYNOLDS
Thesis Title: Chaperone-mediated Autophagy in the Regulation of T Cell Function During Aging
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Fernando Macian
PhD Student, Department of Pathology
ERICA MOORE
Thesis Title: Uncovering the Contribution and Therapeutic Promise of T Cells in Neuropsychiatric Lupus
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Chaim Putterman
MD-PhD Student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
HAYDEN A.M. HATCH
Thesis Title: Regulation of neuronal development and function by the intellectual disability-associated transcriptional regulator KDM5
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Time: 9:15 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
MD-PhD Student, Department of Neuroscience
SAAD KHAN
Thesis Title: Common Signatures of Health and Disease in the Gut Microbiome
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Libusha Kelly
MD-PhD Student, Department of Systems and Computational Biology
BIANCA ULLOA
Thesis Title: Deciphering the Development of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 2:15 pm
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
MD-PhD Student, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
YU LIU
Thesis Title: A SOX9-B7x Axis Safeguards Dedifferentiated Cells From Immune Surveillance to Drive Breast Cancer Progression
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Wenjun Guo
PhD Student, Department of Cell Biology
TONYA AARON
Thesis Title: Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha-mediated Inflammation Regulates Normal and Malignant Plasma Cell Retention in the Bone Marrow
Date: Monday, April 11, 2022
Time: 10:00 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. David Fooksman
MD-PhD Student, Department of Pathology
ELISE ISHIDA
Thesis Title: Antibodies Associated with Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
Laboratories of Dr. Jacqueline Achkar and Ryung Kim
PhD Student, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Clinical Investigation
MU FENG
Thesis Title: Therapeutic Development of 5'-Methylthioadenosine Nucleosidase Transition State Analogue Inhibitors in Helicobacter pylori Infection
Date: Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Online Via Zoom and LeFrak Auditorium
Laboratory of Dr. Vern Schramm
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
KRISTIN MAYORAL-PALARZ
Thesis Title: Cerebellar Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type-3
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah
MD-PhD Student, Department of Neuroscience
HAO WANG
Thesis Title: TMIGD2 Is an Orchestrator and Therapeutic Target on Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Xingxing Zang
PhD Student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
ARIEL WIRCHNIANSKI
Thesis Title: Broadening Therapeutic Antibodies Against Filoviruses Through Bispecific Engineering
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Online Via Zoom
Laboratories of Dr. Jonathan Lai & Dr, Kartik Chandran
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
MARYL LAMBROS
Thesis Title: The Causes and Consequences of Environmental Robustness and Its Breakdown: Lessons Learned From a Computational Model, Metastatic Cancer, and Laboratory Evolution of Escherichia coli
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Aviv Bergman
PhD Student, Department of Systems & Computational Biology
STAD ZEIGLER
Thesis Title: Development of Peptide Major Histocompatibility Complex Scaffolds as Prognostic and Therapeutic Tools
Date: Monday, February 14, 2022
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Steven Almo
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry
MARIA AIVALIOTI
Thesis Title: PU.1-dependent Enhancer Decommissioning Separates Clonal Hematopoiesis from Malignant Transformation
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Online Via Zoom
Laboratory of Dr. Britta Will
PhD Student, Department of Cell Biology
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