Congratulations to the MSTPs who Recently Completed their Thesis Defenses!

Posted by vuit_admin on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Honors and Awards .

Name	Department (Mentor)	Dissertation Title
Rachana Haliyur	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Al Powers)	Determining the mechanisms underlying islet dysfunction and clinical heterogeneity in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
Nicholas Harris	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Danny Winder)	Characterization of novel excitatory actions of alpha2a-adrenergic receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Merla Hubler	Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Alyssa Hasty)	Elucidating the role of iron-handling macrophages in adipose tissue
Jonathan Knowlton	Microbiology & Immunology (Terry Dermody)	Molecular Mechanisms of Reovirus Capsid Assembly
Krystian Kozek	Pharmacology (Dave Weaver)	Discovery and characterization of G protein-gated, inward-rectifying, potassium (GIRK) channel modulators
Shan Parikh	Pharmacology (Bjorn Knollman)	Maturation and Implementation of Human Induced Pluripotent Sten Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes for Modeling Cardiac Disease
Matthew Puccetti	Cellular & Molecular Pathology (Chris Eischen)	The role of DNA replication fork remodeling proteins in lymphomagenesis and hematopoietic cell replication stress
Meredith Rogers	Microbiology & Immunology (John Williams)	Immune Regulation and Evasion of Acute Respiratory Virus Infection