Past Thesis Defenses (2021-2022)

Date	Speaker	Title	Mentor & Program
08/26/2021	Frida Teran-Garza, M5G	Epilepsy, Dietary Therapies, and SUDEP: the Role of Serotonin and CO2 Chemoreception	George Richerson, MD, PhD Neuroscience
09/21/2021	Drew Voigt, M5G	Single-cell Transcriptomics of the Human Retina: Regional Specialization, Endothelial Degeneration & Bioinformatic Visualization	Robert Mullins, PhD Todd Scheetz, PhD Molecular Medicine
10/22/2021	Shakoora Sabree, M5G	Evaluating the Complexity of the Immune Response to Vidutolimod, a Virus-Like Particle Containing a TLR9 Agonist	George Weiner, MD Immunology
11/15/2021	Elliot Burghardt, M5G	Agglomerative and Divisive Hierarchical Bayesian Clustering with Methods for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data	David Sewell, PhD Joe Cavanaugh, PhD Biostatistics
12/06/2021	Mitchell Lefebvre, M5G	Fleet-footed soldiers: circulating memory CD8 T cells quickly enter the fray during malarial and bacterial infection of the liver	John Harty, PhD Immunology
12/14/2021	Sheps King-McAlpin, M5G	Exploring FGF21’s Mechanism of Acute Insulin Sensitization	Matthew Potthoff, PhD Molecular Medicine
12/15/2021	Tina Arkee, M5G	Roles of TRAF3 in regulation of T lyphocyte biology	Gail Bishop, MD Immunology
01/07/2022	Eliot Zhu, M5G	Modeling drug resistance to BRAF inhibition in cutaneous melanoma	Adam Dupuy, PhD Cancer Biology