Shreya Soni

Macrophage-Targeted Therapeutics To Attenuate the Development of Ischemic Heart Failure

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kara Spiller
Committee Members: Lin Han, Adrian Shieh, Pavan Atluri, Chris Rodell
Date and Time: July 26, 2024 12:00 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 209

Sarath Reghunathan

Towards In-vitro reconstitution of Actin Comet Tail Formation and Septin Caging competition of Shigella

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: July 29, 2024 12:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101

Sri Havya Jana

The Role of DDX11 in Telomere Maintenance and it’s Implications in Cancer Cells

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: July 30, 2024 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101

Dorothy Benton

Identifying new targets and drug combinations in Neurofibromatosis type 2

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: July 30, 2024 2:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101

Kyle Matthews

Unraveling the Charge Storage Mechanism of MXenes in Aqueous Zinc Electrolytes

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Committee Members: Steven May, Christopher Li, Yury Gogotsi, Megan Creighton
Date and Time: July 31, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: Lebow Engineering Center, Room 240

Chun-Ta Ho

Effects of the chemokine CXCL12 on dendritic spine dynamics: implication for cognitive improvement

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
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Date and Time: August 02, 2024 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312

Meghan Carey

Understanding follow-up care trajectories and quality for depression among Medicaid enrolled autistic young people

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Kristen Dodge
Committee Members: Brian Lee, Lindsay Shea, Laura Graham Holmes, Diana Schendel
Date and Time: August 07, 2024 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mek376@drexel.edu for link.

Christian Cabuslay

Evolutionary dynamics in the diverse specialized gut microbiome of cephalotine ants

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Jacob Russell, Sean O'Donnell, Corrie Moreau, Kari Lenhart
Date and Time: August 14, 2024 10:30 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room TBD

Melissa Carpenter

Diversity, Adaptation, and Selection in the Hamiltonella Defensa and other facultative symbionts of Acyrthosiphon pisum

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Jacob Russell, Marina Potapova, Jennifer White, Kerry Oliver
Date and Time: August 15, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: TBD

Galen Rupp

Exploring Mastery of Common Core Standards as an Alternative to Age-Based Student Progression: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Craig Bach
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Kelly Cartwright
Date and Time: August 19, 2024 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact gpr28@drexel.edu for link.

Michael Campana

New Hypotheses and New Methods: Searching for Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos from MeV-Gamma Ray Blazars and a Binned Likelihood Analysis of the Galactic Plane

Major: Physics
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Committee Members: Russell Neilson, Regina Caputo, Christina Love, Jorn Venderbos
Date and Time: August 20, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Kelsey Alexovitz

Statistical Approaches for Examining Exposure to Multiple Environment Features

Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Brisa Sanchez Loya
Committee Members: Loni Tabb, Gina Lovasi, Lucy Robinson, Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh
Date and Time: August 22, 2024 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 751

Yousif Alqenai

A Circular Economy Approach Utilizing Landfill Condition Waste Coal Ash to Manufacture Fine Lightweight Aggregates for Internally Cured Concrete

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Amir Farnam, Grace Hsuan
Committee Members: Miguel Pando, Jason Baxter, Megan Creighton
Date and Time: August 28, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yma34@drexel.edu for link.

Ismail Kuru

Verifying OS Kernels with Modal Abstractions of Systems Concepts

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Colin Gordon
Committee Members: Vasilis Gkatzelis, Manolis Pountourakis, Geoffrey Mainland, Lars Birkedal
Date and Time: August 29, 2024 9:30 AM
Location: College of Computer & Informatics, Room 928

Xinyue Kang

Search for Neutrino Emissions from the Galactic Center Region

Major: Physics
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Committee Members: Michelle Dolinski, Eric Brewe, Claudio Kopper, Luis Cruz Cruz
Date and Time: September 05, 2024 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919