Emily Pochet
Integrative Proteomic and Genomic Approaches Reveal Nuclear Role of SMN in Chromatin and RNA Regulation
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: June 16, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101
Ingrid Natale
The Effect of Legalizing the Sale of Wine in Grocery Stores on the Sales of Wine and Spirits in State Stores in Pennsylvania
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Mark Stehr
Committee Members: Teresa Harrison
Date and Time: June 10, 2025 3:30 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 219
Jinhao Duan
Know When to Trust: Towards Reliable Decision-Making in Large Foundation Models
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Kaidi Xu
Committee Members: Edward Kim, Feng Liu, Harry Zhang, Ren Wang
Date and Time: June 10, 2025 9:30 AM
Location: College of Computing & Informatics, Room 928
Edwin McCulley
Spatial Accessibility to Healthcare in the COVID-19 Era: A Relational Approach to the Effects of Context on Disparities in Infection and Mortality
Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Usama Bilal
Committee Members: Jana Hirsch, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Gina Lovasi, Brisa Sanchez Loya
Date and Time: June 06, 2025 1:30 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 132
Katie Zellner
Understanding Delay Experiences During Time-Critical Teamwork and Designing Computerized Support for Delay Awareness
Major: Information Science
Chair: Aleksandra Sarcevic
Committee Members: Michelle Rogers, Jina Huh-Yoo, John Seberger, Kathleen Pine
Date and Time: June 06, 2025 12:30 PM
Location: College of Computing and Informatics, Room 928
Allison Rusgo
A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Community and Institution Solutions to Power Inequities in Research Experienced by Urban Communities of Color in the United States
Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Amy Carroll-Scott
Committee Members: Allison Groves, Shiriki Kumanyika, Erica Roberts, Elizabeth Valdez
Date and Time: June 06, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall
Jaime Coffen
Principal and Principal Supervisors' Collective Work Through Productive Partnerships: A Phenomenological Study
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Kristine Grant, Ava Tasker-Mitchell
Date and Time: June 05, 2025 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jfc97@drexel.edu for link.
Kusuma Schofield
The Drexel University PA SNAP-Ed Dragon Project: Iterative Development and Efficacy of a Novel Nutrition Education Intervention
Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Nasser, Jennifer Quinlan
Committee Members: Michael Bruneau, Stella Volpe, Brandy-Joe Milliron
Date and Time: June 05, 2025 2:30 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 11W74
Alene Montgomery
In Search of Joy: The Role of Developmental Networks in Black Teacher Retention
Major: Education
Chair: Vera Lee
Committee Members: Kristy Kelly, Rajashi Ghosh, Deanna Hill, Colin Hennessy Elliott
Date and Time: June 05, 2025 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ao592@drexel.edu for link.
Sonia Pascua
A Novel Information Theoretic Framework for Information Representation, Knowledge Organization and Predictive Analytics
Major: Information Science
Chair: Weimao Ke
Committee Members: Xia Lin, Mat Kelly, Jung-Ran Park, Kazuhiro Seki
Date and Time: June 04, 2025 7:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact smp458@drexel.edu for link.
Danielle Peirson
Exploring Teacher Efficacy and School Climate: A Case Study on the Impact of Self and Collective Efficacy in Shaping Educational Environments
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen, Colin Henessy Elliott
Committee Members: Andrew Miller
Date and Time: June 04, 2025 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dnp53@drexel.edu for link.
David Romanofski
The Importance of an Integrated Protocol in Reducing Medical Errors and Increasing Patient Safety in Radiation Therapy: A Variable-Oriented, Explanatory Sequential Design
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Amy Harrison
Date and Time: June 04, 2025 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dr3239@drexel.edu for link.
Leah Sodowick
Secondary Traumatic Stress in NICU Nurses: Risk and Protective Factors
Major: Psychology
Chair: Pamela Geller
Committee Members: Kate Devlin, Joan Bloch, Andrea Nelson, Chavis Patterson
Date and Time: June 04, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lbs66@drexel.edu for link.
Monet Harbison
Geographies of Persistence: Black Women Academic's Hip Hop Music Elicited Testimonios of Endurance in Academia
Major: Education
Chair: Christopher Wright
Committee Members: H. Bernard Hall, Deanna Hill, ReAnna Roby, Ebony White
Date and Time: June 03, 2025 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mf72@drexel.edu for link.
Georgia Bonney
A Qualitative Multiple Case Study on How Nontraditional Learning Centers Address the Educational Needs of K-12 Students Through Experiential Approaches
Major: Educational Leadership ad Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: John Gould, Greg Richards
Date and Time: June 02, 2025 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact gyb26@drexel.edu for link.
Ilan Friedman
Testing the Viability of Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence as a Form of Academic Support for Non-American Students Preparing for the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Section of the Medical College Admission Test
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Colin Hennessy Elliott, Gigi Simeone
Date and Time: May 30, 2025 12:15 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact if64@drexel.edu for link.
Wale Ayodele
Field-Scale Validation of Numerical Modeling of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Leaching During Unsaturated Zone Flushing Using Lysimeter - Derived Porewater Concentrations
Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Christopher Sales
Committee Members: Joseph Hughes, Mira Olson, Erica McKenzie, Charles Schaefer
Date and Time: May 30, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact wa327@drexel.edu for link.
Xizhi Tan
Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Vasilis Gkatzelis
Committee Members: Manolis Pountourakis, Shahin Jabbari, Eric Balkanski, Michal Feldman
Date and Time: May 29, 2025 1:45 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact xt52@drexel.edu for link.
Kendall Butler
Pathway Formation and Dynamical Transitions by Neuronal Traveling Waves with Synaptic Plasticity
Major: Physics
Chair: Luis Cruz Cruz
Committee Members: Brigita Urbanc, Dave Goldberg, Vikas Bhandawat, Nicholas DiNardo
Date and Time: May 29, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109
Mary Qin Hassig
Synthesis, Modification, and Characterization of Hydroxide-Derived Nanomaterials
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Michel Barsoum, Joshua Snyder, Andrew Magenau, Vibha Kalra
Date and Time: May 28, 2025 12:30 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240
Lennie Parham
Examining the Lived Experiences of K-5 Principals' Leadership of Prioritizing Health and Wellness Subjects and Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: A Phenomenological Study
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: James Connell, Victor Ramsey
Date and Time: May 27, 2025 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lp934@drexel.edu for link.
Matthew McDonald
Aminochronology and Biodiversity of Jamaican Land Snails: A Museum-based Analysis
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: David Velinsky
Committee Members: Gary Rosenberg, Elizabeth Watson, John Wehmiller, Edward Daeschler
Date and Time: May 27, 2025 11:30 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 103
Chad Buckwalter
Integrating Internationalization and Diversity Efforts in U.S. Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study of International Education Professionals
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Deanna Hill, Courtney Johnson Fowler
Date and Time: May 23, 2025 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ceb356@drexel.edu for link.
Tao Xu
The Effect of Cross Channel Policy in Omnichannel Operations
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Wenjing Shen
Committee Members: Seung-Lae Kim, Min Wang, Avijit Banerjee, Konstantinos Serfes
Date and Time: May 23, 2025 1:00 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722
Youngdai Won
The Safe Side of Multitasking: How Multitasking Shapes Risk Behavior
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Chen Wang
Committee Members: YanLiu Huang, Jillian Hmurovic, Nahyun Kim, Trina Andras
Date and Time: May 23, 2025 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact yw822@drexel.edu for link.
Clara Barajas
Health Care Access, Utilization, and Experiences Among California's Latino Population
Major: Health Services Research and Policy
Chair: Jan Eberth, Alex Ortega
Committee Members: Dylan Roby, Mark Stehr, Brent Langellier, Jim Stimpson
Date and Time: May 21, 2025 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cbb57@drexel.edu for link.
Mobish Abraham Shaji
Non-Thermal Gliding Arc Discharges: Scaling Up and High-Power Industrial Applications
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Young Cho
Committee Members: Emin Kumbur, Christopher Sales, Alexander Rabinovich, Alexander Fridman
Date and Time: May 21, 2025 11:00 AM
Location: Nyheim Plasma Institute (200 Federal St, Camden, NJ)
So Young Choi
"Peeling Back the Onion": An Exploration of Leader Self-Disclosure and its Effects on Employees
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Mary Mawritz
Committee Members: Jonathan Ziegert, Christian Resick, Lauren D'Innocenzo, Daan Van Knippenberg
Date and Time: May 21, 2025 9:30 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 219
Klein Wang
Improving Neural Network Performance with Bio-inspired Plasticity and Unraveling Interpretability with Information Entropy
Major: Physics
Chair: Luis Cruz Cruz
Committee Members: Hualou Liang, Chuck Lane, Brigita Urbanc, Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Date and Time: May 19, 2025 2:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Tevo'n Campbell
Exploring the effects of lncRNA FAM99B in Hepatocellular carcinoma
Major: Biochemistry of Health and Disease
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Date and Time: May 19, 2025 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, 11th Floor Conference
Janet Mee
Exploration of Clinical Reasoning Patterns in High-Stakes Clinical Case Simulations
Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: Jane Greenberg, Amanda Clauser, Constance Murray, Christopher Feddock
Date and Time: May 16, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: College of Computing and Informatics, Room 928
Jessica McAtamney
School Social Work Interventions: Perceptions of Clinicians of Color
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Jessie Harper, Chris Vorndran
Date and Time: May 16, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jm4797@drexel.edu for link.
Patrick Osei
Human Health Risk Assessment of Artisanal Engineering in Suame, Ghana
Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Mira Olson
Committee Members: Joseph Hughes, James Tangorra, Christopher Sales
Date and Time: May 16, 2025 9:00 AM
Location: 3101 Market Street, Room 200
Tiffany Johnston
A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study on the Impact of Imposter Syndrome in Female Leaders at Different Stages in their Career
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Yvonne Phelps
Date and Time: May 15, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact tj545@drexel.edu for link.
Janna MacPherson
"Ain't Nobody Saving Us Except Us": An Analysis of Digital Surveillance & Vigilantism On Personal Safety Platforms
Major: Communication, Culture and Media
Chair: Rachel Reynolds
Committee Members: Douglas Porpora, Hilde Van den Bulck, Kris Unsworth, Daniel Trottier
Date and Time: May 15, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Science Center, Room 110-U
Ritvind Suketana
Multi-representation particle-field simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Joshua Lequieu, Richard Cairncross, Yong-Jie Hu, Christopher Li
Date and Time: May 14, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302
Maxwell Franklin
Bolstering retention of undergraduate women in physics
Major: Physics
Chair: Eric Brewe
Committee Members: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Michelle Dolinski, Nicholas DiNardo, Benjamin Geller
Date and Time: May 09, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Ian Zimmermann
Live, Love, Code: An Ethnography of Subcultural Capital, Liveness, and Affiliation among TidalCycles users
Major: Communication, Culture and Media
Chair: Brent Luvaas, Rachel Reynolds
Committee Members: Alex McLean, Ron Bishop, Wesley Shumar
Date and Time: May 09, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 110-U
Idris Robinson
Harnessing the power of the Black barbershop to increase physical activity behaviors among millennial Black men.
Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Shiriki Kumanyika
Committee Members: Allison Groves, Melicia Whitt-Glover, Michael Yudell
Date and Time: May 07, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
Hannah Palmer
Investigating the Accuracy of Simulated Flight Time and Peak Width Data Calculated using TOFSim, a LabVIEW based Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Simulation
Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Ezra Wood, Monica Ilies, Daniel King, Cathy Bentzley
Date and Time: May 05, 2025 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109
Jesse Starger
Controlling Morphology in Evaporating and Solidifying Perovskite Thin Films
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Jason Baxter
Committee Members: Stephanie Lee, Aaron Fafarman, Richard Cairncross, Nicolas Alvarez
Date and Time: May 05, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240
Jon Pomeroy
Generative AI in Healthcare: Strategic, Ethical, and Operational Readiness for Clinical Integration
Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: Bhupesh Shetty, Lei Wang, Erjia Yan, Jason Lubken, Grace Lu Yao
Date and Time: May 02, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: 3675 Market Street, Room 928
Katelyn Reeb
Determination of Preclinical Potential and Molecular Mechanisms for Allosteric Modulators of Glutamate Transporters
Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
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Date and Time: April 24, 2025 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312
Manasvi Sheta
The Role of DDX11 in Telomere Maintenance in Cancer Cells
Major: Cancer Biology
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Date and Time: April 16, 2025 9:30 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101
Kareen Pestana
Copy Number Variations in Plasmodium vivax: Implications for Erythrocyte Invasion, Malaria Transmission, and Host-Pathogen Interactions in Ethiopia and Sudan
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: April 11, 2025 2:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane, Room SAC B
Emily Presseller
Using Wearable Passive Sensing to Predict Engagement in Binge Eating in Response to Negative Affect: A Multimethod Investigation of Predictive Utility, Feasibility, and Acceptability
Major: Psychology
Chair: Stephanie Manasse
Committee Members: Fengqing Zhang, Philip Gable, Timothy Guetterman, Brian Daly
Date and Time: April 08, 2025 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Nima Sarfaraz
Decoding Liver Cancer Biology: Optimizing Disease Models and Uncovering FAM99A as a Liver-Specific Translation Regulator
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: March 24, 2025 2:30 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A
Ashley Vann
Depression Prevalence in the Black Aging Community vs. Their White Aging Counterparts
Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Kristine Mulhorn
Committee Members: Lynne Sutherland, Linda Wilson
Date and Time: March 20, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact av673@drexel.edu for link.
Shih-Chun Shen
Exploiting and Exploring the Role of IDVCs in Supporting Inflammatory Neovascularization
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: March 18, 2025 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary B
Karmi Oxman
Ethology and neurobiology of xeric-adapted isopods: Plasticity in bi-parental care and neuroantomy of Hemilepistus reaumuri
Major: Ecology, Evolution, and Earth
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Sean O'Donnell, Michael O'Connor, Jocelyn Sessa, Itamar Giladi, Gabriella Wolff
Date and Time: March 14, 2025 10:30 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 104
Breana Channer-Ellis
Evaluating TLR4 and Dopamine Mediated Inflammatory Responses in Human Macrophages Across Distinct Culture and Serum Conditions
Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
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Date and Time: March 11, 2025 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312
Krista Clauser
Exploring Burnout in Family Micro-Business Owners: A Phenomenological Study
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, Mollie Gambone
Date and Time: February 24, 2025 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ksc86@drexel.edu for link.
Jay McKelvey
Slope Stability Enhancements Through Soil Arching
Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Miguel Pando
Committee Members: Shi-Chieh Cheng, Robert Swan, Robert Liang, Timothy Stark
Date and Time: February 10, 2025 4:00 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240
Regina Michael Zoot
Effectiveness of Strategies to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ghana
Major: Health Sciences
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Committee Members: Fran Cornelius, Beth Leonberg, Sunny Hallowell, Baniyelme Zoogah
Date and Time: January 17, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact rz348@drexel.edu for link.
Julia Farnan
Investigating the role of astrocyte reactivity in Melanoma Brain Metastasis
Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
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Date and Time: January 13, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312
Kyle Yeakle
HIV1 Tat Activates ERK1/2 Signaling in HBV-infected Hepatocytes to Inhibit HBV Replication and Promote Hepatocyte Survival
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: January 08, 2025 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101
Jamie O'Brien
Outpatient Physical Therapists' Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and External Factors and their Influences on Utilization of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity Cardiovascular Training in Individuals Post-Stroke
Major: Health Sciences
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Committee Members: Linda Wilson, Fran Cornelius, Stephanie Miller
Date and Time: December 19, 2024 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Nolan Black
Multiscale structural optimization through second-order homogenization and machine learning
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ahmad Najafi
Committee Members: Matthew McCarthy, Alan Lau, Tein-Min Tau, Daniel Tortorelli
Date and Time: December 09, 2024 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162
Rachel HaileSelasse
Men in Domestic Violence and Prevention: a Mixed Methods Study
Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Allison Groves
Committee Members: Renee' Moore, Rachel Reynolds, Robert Reed, Sandra Bloom
Date and Time: December 04, 2024 9:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 440
Shrobona Guha
The Role of Microtubule-Associated Motors and Crosslinkers in Neurodevelopment
Major: Neuroscience
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Date and Time: November 18, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane, Room SAC B
Katie Hausman
Implications of PSGL-1 Expression in Dendritic Cells and their role in CD8+ T cell activation
Major: Cancer Biology
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Date and Time: November 18, 2024 9:30 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 18101
Xiaohuan Sun
Tau-MAP6-Microtubule Axis as a Driver for Biphasic Neurodegeneration in Tauopathy-Patient-Derived Cortical Organoids
Major: Neuroscience
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Date and Time: November 14, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane, Room SAC B
Camille Cunanan
BAP1 loss affords lipotoxicity resistance in uveal melanoma
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
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Date and Time: November 12, 2024 1:30 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A
Yih-Ping Su
Viral-host interactions: characterizing cis and trans interactions of integrated HBV DNA with the human genome
Major: Microbiology and Immunology
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Date and Time: October 28, 2024 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A
Qiaowei Xie
The impact of EcoHIV on cocaine related behaviors
Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
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Date and Time: October 17, 2024 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312
Jintong Hou
Sample Size Estimation for Correlated Count Data with Changes in Dispersion
Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Lucy Robinson, Leslie McClure
Committee Members: Savina Jaeger, Issa Zakeri, Brian Lee
Date and Time: October 10, 2024 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jh3646@drexel.edu for link.
Divya Kamireddi
Sustainable nanofiber yarns for structural applications
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Caroline Schauer, Christopher Li, Genevieve Dion, Ahmad Najafi
Date and Time: October 09, 2024 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302
Abhishek Rao
Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and Cathelicidin- related anti-microbial peptide (CRAMP) as Critical Regulators of Immune Responses in Neonatal IAV Infection
Major: Microbiology and Immunology
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Date and Time: October 03, 2024 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A