Suela Xhani (#261 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “WHAT CONTROLS THE CONTROLLER: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION CHARACTERIZATIONS OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PU.1 UNCOVER ITS REGULATORY MECHANISM” on Friday, October 23, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Gregory Poon. Committee: Drs. Gregory Poon (Chair), W. David Wilson, Markus Germann, Binghe Wang.
Brandon Canup (#262 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER AND HEPATOCARCIMONA ATTENUATION BY SPECIFIC CD98 DOWN-REGULATION VIA NANOVECTORS” on Thursday, October 22, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Hamed Laroui. Committee: Drs. Hamed Laroui (Chair), Kathryn Grant, Donald Hamelberg.
Jing Mu (#263 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “REGULATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR HOMEOSTASIS” on Thursday, October 29, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Ming-Hui Zou Committee: Drs. Ming-Hui Zou (Chair), Zhonglin Xie, Binghe Wang, Christopher Basler.
Fei Zhao (#264 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “DEVELOPMENT OF MULTISCALE SPECTRO-MICROSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION” on Friday, November 20, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Ning Fang. Committee: Drs. Ning Fang (Chair), Gangli Wang, & Gregory Poon.
Zhengnan Yuan (#265 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Development of esterase-sensitive persulfide prodrugs and studies of CO-independent reactivities from ruthenium-based CO-releasing molecules” on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Binghe Wang. Committee: Drs. Binghe Wang (Chair), Kathryn Grant, Suazette Mooring.
Chelsea Severin (#266 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “UNVEILING THE POLYMERASE COMPLEX OF NEGATIVE STRANDED RNA VIRUSES” on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Ming Luo. Committee: Drs. Ming Luo (Chair), Kathryn Grant, Jenny Yang.
Dandan Liu (#267 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “DEVELOPMENT OF POINT-OF-CARE ASSAYS FOR DIFFERENT BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT ANALYTES” on Thursday, November 12, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Suri Iyer. Committee: Drs. Suri Iyer (Chair), Jenny Yang, and Donald Hamelberg.
Thomas Dodd (#268 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF BIOMOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN GENOMIC REPLICATION, REPAIR, AND TRANSCRIPTION” on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov. Committee: Drs. Ivaylo Ivanov (Chair), Donald Hamelberg, Kathryn Grant.
Ladie Kimberly De La Cruz (#269 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Caging Carbon Monoxide For Therapeutic Applications And Carbonylation Reactions” on Thursday, November 19, 2020 under the direction of Dr. Binghe Wang. Committee: Drs. Binghe Wang (Chair), Suazette Mooring, Maged Henary.
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