MARC CHRISTOPHER PULANCO
Thesis Title: Immune Checkpoint B7x Promotes Immune Evasion and Resistance to PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade in Bladder Cancer
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price
Laboratories of Drs. XingXing Zang and Mark Schoenburg
PhD Candidate, Department of Clinical Investigation
CLAIRE WARD
Thesis Title: Developmental Disruption of Mef2c in MGE-derived Cortical Interneurons Impairs Cellular and Circuit Function
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista-Brito
PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
KEVIN RAMOS
Thesis Title: Application of Various Protein Engineering Strategies to Develop Enhanced Antiviral Immunogens and Therapeutics.
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 11:00am
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Lai
PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry
ERIK GUILLEN
Thesis Title: Understanding How T cell Receptor Recognition and Signaling Impacts CD8+ T cell Functional Programming
Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Zoom, and 3rd Fl Lecture Hall, Forchheimer
Laboratory of Dr. Gregoire Lauvau
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SARAH AMINOV
Thesis Title: Therapeutic Targeting of Leukemias
Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Amit Verma
PhD Candidate, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
MARGARETTE MARIANO
Thesis Title: Engineering Nanoparticle Vaccines That Elicit Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Responses Against Flaviviruses and Hantaviruses in vivo
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Lai
PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry
JACOB RATLIFF
Thesis Title: Inhibition and State-Dependent Cortical Function
Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy Center
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista-Brito
PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
EMILY SCHWENGER
Thesis Title: The Role of Adaptive Immunity in the Preleukemic to Leukemic Transition: p53 as a Paradigm
Date: Monday, October 21, 2024
Time: 9:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratories of Drs. Ulrich Steidl and Aviv Bergman
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Cell Biology
JOHN CONNOLLY
Thesis Title: Interactions Between Microbial Ecology, Population Structure and Human Health Across Physiological Systems
Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Libusha Kelly
PhD Candidate, Department of Systems and Computational Biology
RANEE HARRISON
Thesis Title: Chaperone Mediated Autophagy is Required for Regulatory T-cell Function
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo
PhD Candidate, Department of Pathology
SARAH GOEBEL
Thesis Title: Ly6H Mislocalization and Cholinergic Dysfunction in the Fmr1 KO Mouse: Therapeutic Implications for Fragile X Syndrome.
Date: Friday, September 20, 2024
Time: 10:00am
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy Center
Laboratories of Drs. Anna Francesconi and Vytas Verselis
PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
JAKE LACHOWICZ
Thesis Title: Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Viperin and Biotin Synthase
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Tyler Grove
PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry
ANDREA BAE
Thesis Title: Auditory Competition and Neural Coding of Stimulus Selection Across Midbrain and Forebrain of Barn Owls
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
Time: 1:00pm
Zoom, and Tishman Auditorium, Kennedy Center
Laboratory of Dr. Jose L. Peña
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Neuroscience
JOSEPH DEANGELO
Thesis Title: Transcriptional Regulation by PRMT5
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. David Shechter
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Biochemistry
ALBERT WANG
Thesis Title: Targeting Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Glycoprotein GP38: Investigating Mechanism, Strain Differences, and Vaccine Development
Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Time: 10:30am
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Kartik Chandran
MD-PhD Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SAYRA GARCIA
Thesis Title: Lipocalin-2 Drives Neuropsychiatric and Cutaneous Disease in SLE
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Zoom, and LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center
Laboratory of Dr. Chaim Putterman
PhD Candidate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
