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Pulse - Fall 2024 Recent Thesis Defenses

We congratulate the following master’s and PhD students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies on the successful defense of their theses.

Amanda Abavana-Mensah

Amanda Abavana-Mensah
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: Cobamide Biosynthesis: Examination of Aminopropanol Production and Incorporation
Advisor: Amy Ma, PhD

Maria R. Cavallo

Maria R. Cavallo
Pharmacology & Physiology PhD Program
Title: Unveiling Resistance Mechanisms and Improving Therapeutic Outcomes in Mutant BRAFV600E Cancers
Advisor: Edward Hartsough, PhD

Alexandria Criswell

Alexandria Criswell
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Characterizing Escape Pathways Associated With HIV-Specific CAR T Cell Therapy
Advisor: Daniel Claiborne, PhD
Co-advisor: Luis Montaner, DVM, PhD

Jason DaCunza

Jason DaCunza
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: miRNA Cargo in Small Extracellular Vesicles From Mouse Primary Macrophages and RAW 264.7 Cells
Advisor: Seena Ajit, PhD

Tisha Kalpesh Desai

Tisha Kalpesh Desai
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Investigating the Role of SND1 in Glioblastoma Using RNA-Seq
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Emily Esquea, MS

Emily Esquea, MS
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics PhD Program
Title: Targeting Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Breast Cancer Brain Metastatic Cells
Advisor: Mauricio Reginato, PhD

Hieu Jeromy

Hieu Jeromy
Pharmacology & Physiology MS Program
Title: Characterization of Shared Immunogenic Poly-Epitope Frameshift Mutations in Microsatellite-InstabilityHigh (MSI-H) Colorectal Cancer Research
Advisors: Patrick Wilkinson, PhD, and Katelyn Miller, PhD
Academic Co-advisor: Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD

Roshni Kadam

Roshni Kadam
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Investigating the Functional Role of Highly Structured Regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 Using CRISPR/Cas-Based Deletion Analysis
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Ranjit Kaur

Ranjit Kaur
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Interplay of Hepatitis B Virus and lncRNA FAM99A Expression and Interacting Proteins in Liver Cancer Cell Lines
Advisor: Michael Bouchard, PhD

Christopher Markgraf

Christopher Markgraf
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Identifying Protein Partners and Binding Sites on the lncRNA SChLAP1
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Aaron Slifer

Aaron Slifer
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Transcriptome Analysis of Publicly Available Hepatocellular Carcinoma Datasets to Identify Hepatitis B Virus-Specific Long Non-coding RNAs
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Alexis Tang

Alexis Tang
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: Innate Immune RNA Sensors in the Central Nervous System: Beyond the Antiviral Response
Advisor: Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD

Felicity Tso

Felicity Tso
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: The Stringent Response and Its Sneaky Role in Bacterial Virulence (Literature Review)
Advisors: Garth Ehrlich, PhD, and Donald Hall Jr., PhD

 
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