Cassandra Miller (#242 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Monitoring Subcellular Calcium by Designed Calcium Sensors and The Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaSR) Structure and Function” on Tuesday, July 2, under the direction of Dr. Jenny Yang. Committee: Drs.: Jenny Yang(chair), Ming Luo, Ning Fang, Angela Mabb.
Tam Vo (#243 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “From Macro to Micro: The Biophysical Importance of Nucleic Acids and their Interactive Partners,” on Monday, July 8, under the direction of Dr. David Wilson. Committee: Drs.: David Wilson (chair), Gregory Poon, Ivaylo Ivanov.
Dan Su (#244 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled ” Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Investigation of Two Flavin-Dependent Enzymes: Nitronate Monooxygenase and Choline Oxidase” on July 18, 2019. The dissertation committee was: Dr. Giovanni Gadda (chair), Dr. Markus Germann, Dr. Samer Gozem, and Dr. Jun Yin.
Kanchan Basnet (#245 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled ” Binding Modes and Near Infrared Photo Cleavage by Pentamethine Bridged Phenanthridinium and Quinolinium Carbocyanine Dyes,” on Monday, July 15, under the direction of Dr. Kathryn Grant. Committee: Drs.: Katryn Grant (chair), Donald Hamelberg, Maged Henary.
Please join the department in congratulating them!