Thesis Defenses

Applications of Untargeted Metabolomics for Disease Stratification and Identifying Novel Sources of Sample Artifacts

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 9:00am

Davinder Sandhu
Physiology, Biophysics and Systemic Biology

Chairperson: Dr. David Christini
Major Sponsor: Dr. Steven S. Gross
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Olivier Elemento and Giovanni Manfredi

"Regulating Antigen Presentation And Unmasking New Cancer Antigens Through ALK, RET, And MEK Inhibitors"

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 9:30am

CLAIRE YAN-CHEER OH

Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Yueming Li

Major Sponsor: Dr. David Scheinberg

Minor Sponsors: Drs. Minkui Luo & Richard O'Reilly

Additional Member: Dr. Richard Kolesnick (MSKCC)

ADAM10 Controls the Terminal Differentiation of the Coronary and Glomerular Endothelium.

Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 - 2:00pm

Gregory Farber
Physiology, Biophysics and System Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Heidi Stuhlmann
Major Sponsor: Dr. Carl Blobel
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Annarita Lorenzo and Randi Silver

Dynamic Interplay Between Gamma Secretase, Immunity and Amyloid Beta in Alzheimer’s Disease and Ageing.

Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 - 2:00pm

GEORGIA ROSE FROST

Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha

Major Sponsor: Dr. Yueming Li

Minor Sponsors: Drs. Costantino Iadecola & Ming Li

Multi-perspective Imaging of Elongation Factor Tu on the Ribosome During Translation.

Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 - 2:00pm

JUSTIN CHARLES MORSE

Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Jeremy Dittman

Major Sponsor: Dr. Scott Blanchard

Minor Sponsors: Drs. Alessio Accardi & Olga Boudker

Biochemical Characterization and Structure-Function Analysis of DNA Helicase Lhr-Cores and DNA Endonuclease MPE - Components of a Bacterial Nucleic Acid Repair Gene Cluster

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 2:30pm

Anam Ejaz
Molecular Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Kirk Deitsch
Major Sponsor: Dr. Stewart Shuman
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Michael Glickman and Dirk Remus

Distinct Colorectal Cancer-Associated APC Mutations Dictate Response to Tankyrase Inhibition

Date: Friday, May 10, 2019 - 2:00pm

Emma Maria Schatoff
Cell and Developmental Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Christopher Barbieri
Major Sponsor: Dr. Lukas Dow
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Lewis Cantley, Scott Lowe and Charles Sawyers
Additional Member: Dr. Sohail Tavazoie (Rockefeller University)

"Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Bicyclization Reaction and Development of Bis-Electropholic Probes for Ubiquitin Conjugation"

Date: Monday, May 13, 2019 - 1:00pm

MICHAELYN CLAIRE LUX

Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB)

Chairperson: Dr. Minkui Luo

Major Sponsor: Dr. Derek Tan

Minor Sponsors: Drs. Gabriela Chiosis & Tarun Kapoor

"Metabolomics Analysis of Valproate-Induced Neural Tube Birth Defects."

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 10:00am

DARYA VLADIMIROVNA AKIMOVA

Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Heller

Major Sponsor: Dr. Steven Gross

Minor Sponsors: Drs. Lonny Levin & M. Elizabeth Ross

Additional Member: Dr. John Blenis (Harvard Medical School)

Clearance of an Antibiotic-Resistant Intestinal Pathogen with a Lantibiotic-Producing, Colon-Resident Probiotic

Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 2:00pm

Sohn G. Kim
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Chairperson: Dr. Sabine Ehrt
Major Sponsor: Dr. Eric Pamer
Minor Sponsors: Drs. Howard Hang and Gregory Sonnenberg

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