Congratulations to the MSTP students who recently completed their dissertation defenses!
Posted by Megan Williams on Friday, March 28, 2025 in Honors and Awards .
| Name | Graduate Program (Mentor) | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Avery Bogart, PhD | Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Lorraine Ware, MD) | Mechanisms of Cell-Free Hemoglobin-Mediated Injury to the Endothelial Glycocalyx During Sepsis |
| Eric Donahue, PhD | Cell & Developmental Biology (Kris Burkewitz, PhD) | ER-phagy Drives Conserved, Age-Related Remodeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Promotes Longevity |
| Derek Doss, PhD | Biomedical Engineering (Dario Englot, MD, PhD) | Consciousness, Cognition, and Connectivity: An Investigation in Focal Epilepsy |
| Ansley Kunnath, PhD | Neuroscience (Mark Wallace, PhD and Rene Gifford, PhD) | Multisensory Integration and Neuroplasticity in Adults with Cochlear Implants |
| Allie Lake, PhD | Human Genetics (Lea Davis, PhD) | Leveraging electronic health records to evaluate gene-by environment interactions in psychiatry |
| Thomas Li, PhD | Biomedical Engineering (Bennett Landman, PhD) | Integrating Chest Imaging and Electronic Health Records Across Time and Modalities in Predictive Models for Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Risk |
| Matthew Loberg, PhD | Cancer Biology (Vivian Weiss, MD, PhD) | Multi-Omic Characterization of Thyroid Cancer Evolution |
| Yasminye Pettway, PhD | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Al Powers, MD and Marcela Brissova, PhD) | Intra- and Inter-cellular Signals Regulate Human Islet Cell Function in Health and Diabetes |
| Seth Reasoner, PhD | Microbe-Host Interactions (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD) | Urinary Tract Infections Through the Lens of the Urinary Microbiome |
| John Shelley, PhD | Biomedical Informatics (Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD) | Benign genetic variation in biomarkers leads to clinical misclassification and overtreatment. |
