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.

Breana Channer-Ellis
Pharmacology & Physiology MD/PhD Program
Title: Evaluating TLR4 and Dopamine Mediated Inflammatory Responses in Human Macrophages Across Distinct Culture and Serum Conditions
Advisor: Peter J. Gaskill, PhD

Marissa Cusimano
Neuroscience PhD Program
Title: Cell Transplantation Combined With Exercise Improves Cardio-Electric Conduction After Spinal Cord Injury
Advisor: Shaoping Hou, PhD
Co-advisor: Veronica Tom, PhD

Adam Glass
Microbiology & Immunology PhD Program
Title: Dissecting Macrophage Responses to Betacoronavirus Infection: Role of Toll-Like Receptor Adaptors TRIF and MyD88
Advisor: Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD

Ashley Opalka
Neuroscience PhD Program
Title: Retrosplenial Neuronal Subpopulations and Their Inputs: Dynamics During Slow-Wave Sleep and Memory Processing
Advisor: Dong Wang, PhD

Kareen Pestana
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics PhD Program
Title: Copy Number Variations in Plasmodium vivax: Implications for Erythrocyte Invasion, Malaria Transmission and Host-Pathogen Interactions in Ethiopia and Sudan
Advisor: Eugenia Lo, PhD

Katelyn Reeb
Pharmacology & Physiology PhD Program
Title: Determination of Preclinical Potential and Molecular Mechanisms for Allosteric Modulators of Glutamate Transporters
Advisor: Andréia Mortensen (Fontana), PhD

Victoria Ruszin
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: The Impact of Plasmodium vivax DBP1 Copy Number Variation and Duplication Type on Reticulocyte Invasion and Host Immune Evasion Through Antibody Binding to PvDBP-RII in Sub-Saharan Africa
Advisor: Eugenia Lo, PhD

Nima Sarfaraz
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics PhD Program
Title: Decoding Liver Cancer Biology: Optimizing Disease Models and Uncovering FAM99A as a Liver-Specific Translation Regulator
Advisor: Michael J. Bouchard, PhD

Shih-Chun Shen
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics PhD Program
Title: Exploiting and Exploring the Role of IDVCs in Supporting Inflammatory Neovascularization
Advisor: Alexander Muller, PhD

Manasvi Sheta
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: The Role of DDX11 in Telomere Maintenance in Cancer Cells
Advisor: Eishi Noguchi, PhD

Shayna Singh
Neuroscience PhD Program
Title: Rhythmogenic and Supraspinal Recruitment Mechanisms of Lumbar Spinal Shox2 Interneurons
Advisor: Kimberly Dougherty, PhD

Julia Sutter
Microbiology & Immunology PhD Program
Title: Multifaceted Developmental Studies of Non-thermal Plasma as a Therapy for Oral Infection by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
Advisors: Fred C. Krebs, PhD, and Vandana Miller, MD

Samuel Paura Wechsler
Neuroscience PhD Program
Title: Characterizing the Sensorimotor Transformation in the Fly Olfactory System
Advisor: Vikas Bhandawat, PhD

Kyra Woloszczuk
Microbiology & Immunology PhD Program
Title: Characterization of Immune Memory Responses to COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination
Advisor: Elias El Haddad, PhD

 
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