Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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Thesis Defenses

Endogenous Lineage Tracing and Phenotypic Profiling of Healthy and Malignant Human Cells by Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Somatic Microsatellite Mutations
Nathaniel D. Omans
Date: Monday, July 15, 2024 - 11:00am

Nathaniel D. Omans
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (TPCBM)

Chairperson: Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab
Major Sponsor: Dr. Dan Landau
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Anna Nam and Dr. Ruslan Soldatov

Harnessing the Immune Modulatory Properties of the Senescence Program to Treat Cancer
Caroline M. Broderick
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 11:00am

Caroline M. Broderick
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Andrea Schietinger
Major Sponsor: Dr. Scott W. Lowe
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Karuna Ganesh and Dr. Charles Rudin

Additional Member: Dr. Andrew Aguirre (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Loss of the Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor GPR52 in Breast Cancer: A Novel Regulator of Multicellular Organization
Sarah Hanif
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 9:00am

Sarah Z. Hanif, M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Cell and Developmental Biology

Chairperson: Dr. Xin-Yun Huang
Major Sponsor: Dr. Kristy Brown
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Xin-Yun Ganesh

Additional Member: Dr. Gregory Alushin (The Rockefeller University)

Alzheimer’s Disease-Linked Risk Alleles Elevate Microglial cGAS-Associated Senescence and Neurodegeneration in a Tauopathy Model
Gillian K. Carling
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 10:00am

Gillian K. Carling
Neuroscience

Chairperson: Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
Major Sponsor: Dr. Li Gan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Gary Gibson and Dr. Yueming Li

Fusobacterium Nucleatum Secretomes Rewire the Transcriptome and Metabolome of Colorectal Cancer Cells to Evade NK Cell Killing
Wendy Lin
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 11:00am

Wendy Lin
Pharmacology

Chairperson: Dr. Karuna Ganesh
Major Sponsor: Dr. Joao Xavier
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Andrew Intlekofer and Dr. Dawid Nowak

Additional Member: Dr. Joseph Sun (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

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