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2019-2020 Thesis Defenses

March 27, 2020

Shivani Bhatt, “Imaging the Neural Immune and Stress Systems in PTSD” Mentor: Kelly Cosgrove, PhD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Dimitri De Kouchkovsky, "Diminished activation potential of naïve CD4+ T cells in helminth-infected hosts” Mentor: Carla Rothlin, PhD; Immunobiology

Swetha Dravida, “Neural Mechanisms of Live Interactive Joint Attention: A Simultaneous fNIRS/EEG Hyperscanning Investigation” Mentor: Joy Hirsch, PhD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Alanna Kaplan, "Novel Methods of Inhibiting DNA Double-Strand Break Repair for Cancer Therapy" Mentor: Peter Glazer, MD, PhD; Experimental Pathology

Angela Lee, "Sex differences in mouse models of nicotine addiction" Mentor: Marina Picciotto, PhD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Christina Lin, "Understanding the Heterogeneous Expression of the Type III Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" Mentor: Barbara Kazmierczak, MD, PhD; Microbial Pathogensis

Jonathan Marquez, "Frogs and Protein Folding: Understanding Genetic Causes of Birth Defects" Mentor: Mustafa Khokha, MD; Genetics

Matthew Meizlish, "Mechanosensing of the tissue environment controls gene expression programs in macrophages" Mentor: Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD; Immunobiology

Kevin Perkins, "Discovery, Characterization and Utilization of Riboswitches" Mentor: Ronald Breaker, PhD; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Erin Reed, “Expecting the Unexpected: the Paranoid Style of Belief Updating Across Species” Mentor: Philip Corlett, PhD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Lorenzo Sewanan, "Investigating the mechanobiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using human stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes, engineered heart tissue, and multiscale computational modeling" Mentor: Stuart Campbell, PhD; Biomedical Engineering

Alexander Svoronos, “Tumor-Targeted Inhibition of Oncogenic MicroRNAs for Cancer Therapy using a pH-Low Insertion Peptide (pHLIP)” Mentor: Donald Engelman, PhD; Biomedical Engineering

Submitted by Reiko Fitzsimonds on March 19, 2020