Congratulations to the MSTP students who recently completed their thesis defenses!
| Name | Graduate Program (Mentor) | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Natalie Bennett, PhD | Cancer Biology (Julie Rhoades, PhD) | Characterizing Noel Tumor-Microenvironment Interactions in Gli2-Enriched Cancers |
| Simone Herzberg, PhD | Epidemiology (Ayush Giri, MS, PhD) | Investigating Causal Relationships of Diabetes and Obesity with Degenerative Rotator Cuff Tear |
| Margaret McBride, PhD | Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Edward Sherwood, MD, PhD) | Mechanisms of Innate Immune Memory: Focus on the Immunometabolite Itaconate |
| Donald Okoye, PhD | Molecular Pathology & Immunology (Sebastian Joyce, PhD) | A Delicate Balance: Elucidating the Dynamics of the Immune Landscape in Response to Pulmonary Francisella tularensis Infection |
| Nicholas Petersen, PhD | Neuroscience (Danny Winder, PhD) | Mechanisms underlying control of wake-promoting dopamine neurons by norepinephrine and alcohol |
| Alex Silver, PhD | Cancer Biology (Michael Savona, MD) | Combining insights from big data and gene-editing techniques to refine gene- and residue-level implications of clonal hematopoiesis mutations |
| Zack Williams, PhD | Neuroscience (Tiffany Woynaroski, PhD and Carissa Cascio, PhD) | Investigating the Nature of Decreased Sound Tolerance ("Sound Sensitivity") in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults |
| David Wu, PhD | Human Genetics (Nancy Cox, PhD) | Combining methodologies for improving interpretability and generalizability of genomic investigations |
