Past Thesis Defenses (2020-2021)

Date	Speaker	Title	Mentor & Program
9/30/20	Lucy Evans, M5G	Mechanistic Insights into the Inflammatory Pathogenesis of Visual Disturbances after Traumatic Brain Injury	Alexander Bassuk, MD, PhD Molecular & Cellular Biology
10/15/20	Kristin Weeks, M5G	Surgical, Chemotherapy and Survival Disparities by Rurality and Gynecologic Oncologist Involvement in Ovarian Cancer Patients in the Midwestern United States	Mary Charlton, PhD Charles Lynch, PhD Epidemiology
10/16/20	Keyan Zarei, M5G	The role of CFTR in the biliary tract	David Stoltz, MD, PhD Biomedical Engineering
10/29/20	Thomas Pak, M5G	The Behavioral and Brain Phenotype of Mouse Models of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome	Val Sheffield, MD Neuroscience
11/17/20	Leo Brueggeman, M5G	Identifying Genomic Risk Factors for Neurodevelopmental Disorders using Machine Learning	Jacob Michaelson, PhD Genetics
12/10/20	Marcus Toral, M5G	Inflammatory Biomarkers of the Eye	Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD (Stanford) Molecular Medicine
12/17/20	Rebecca Autenreid, M5G	Insulin Signaling in Heart Failure	E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD Molecular Medicine
12/22/20	Amy Whillock, M5G	TRAF3-Mediated Regulation of Survival & BCR Signaling in Normal & Malignant B Cells	Gail Bishop, PhD Immunology
1/26/21	Sunny Huang, M5G	Medical Applications of Static Electromagnetic Fields	Val Sheffield, MD, PhD Molecular & Cellular Biology (now Molecular Medicine)
05/19/21	Laura Marquez Loza, M5G	Advancements in Lentiviral Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis	Paul McCray, MD Molecular Medicine