Student Thesis Defenses

Congratulations to the MD-PhD students who presented their thesis defense seminars this past winter!

John Tuddenham

Laboratories of Peter Sims and Phil De Jager

A transcriptomic taxonomy of human microglia: Uncovering roles and regulators in aging and neurologic disease

December 19, 2022

Annie Lin

Laboratory of Brent Stockwell

Development of Novel Glutathione Peroxidase 4 Inhibitors

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Molly Martorella

Laboratory of Tuuli Lappalainen

Noninvasive, low-cost RNA-sequencing enhances discovery potential of transcriptome studies

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Zhenrui Liao

Laboratory of Attila Losonczy

Towards a Neuroscience of "Stories": Metric Space Learning in the Hippocampus

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

2022 These Defenses

Karen Gomez

Laboratory of Raul Rabadan

Germline zygosity of class I HLA genes in B cell lymphomas

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Joana Petrescu

Laboratory of Hemali Phatnani

Spatially resolved molecular dysfunction in prefrontal cortex of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Bryan Wang

Laboratory of Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Cardiomyopathy at the Intersection of Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering

Friday, December 9, 2022

Hani Shayya

Laboratory of Stavros Lomvardas

The unfolded protein response couples neuronal identity to circuit formation in the developing mouse olfactory system

Friday, December 2, 2022

2021 Thesis Defenses

Maya Poon
Laboratory of Donna Farber
Tissue-wide dynamics of human anti-viral immunity
December 8, 2021

Lara Boyle
Laboratory of Steve Siegelbaum
Social familiarity and recollection memory in the CA2 region of the hippocampus
December 10, 2021

Jordan Metz
Laboratory of Peter Sims
Systems-level approaches to understanding protein synthesis
December 14, 2021

Sam Resnick
Laboratory of Alex Chavez
Multiplexed high throughput screening identifies broadly active rescuers of proteotoxicity
December 15, 2021

Niki von Krusenstiern
Laboratory of Brent Stockwell
Lipids on fire: Identifying and targeting subcellular membranes that drive ferroptosis
December 16, 2021

Eunice Lee
Laboratory of Angela Christiano
Single-cell analysis of alopecia areata
December 21, 2021