Update note: 2 additional PhD candidates (#280/281) added.
Christopher Ian Davis (#274 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Chemistry of a Dehydrogenase and Di-heme Enzyme Related to Tryptophan Oxidation" on Thursday, June 24, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Aimin Liu. Committee: Drs. Aimin Liu (Chair), Donald Hamelberg, and Markus Germann.
Amanda Albrecht (#275 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled "Characterization of the contributions of hydration in protein-DNA specificity via structurally Conserved ETS Family Transcription PU.1 and Ets-1" on Monday, June 21, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Gregory Poon. Committee: Drs. Gregory Poon (Chair), W. David Wilson, Markus Germann, Giovanni Gadda.
Oluwatosin (Tosin) Ibhagui (#276) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled "Development and optimization of Human Collagen-Targeted Protein-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agent for Early Detection of Chronic Human Diseases" on Thursday, July 1, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Jenny Yang Committee: Drs. Jenny Yang (Chair), Ming Luo, Zhiren Liu, and Hans Grossniklaus.
Hye Mi Kim (#277 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled "A Reporter Platform for Characterizing Transcription Factor-DNA Interactions in Live Cells" on Monday, July 26, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Gregory Poon. Committee: Drs. Gregory Poon (Chair), W. David Wilson, Kathryn Grant.
James Terrell (#278 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Utilizing Molecular Probes to Examine Protein Structure-Function Relationships" on Friday, September 24, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Ming Luo. Committee: Drs. Ming Luo (Chair), W. David Wilson and Markus Germann.
Manjusha Roy Choudhury (#279 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled "IMPROVING POTENCY OF EXISTING DRUGS: FROM DEVELOPING BACTERIAL SENSITIZERS FOR EXISITING ANTIMICROBIALS TOWARDS MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT STRAINS TO TARGETING CANCER DRUGS TO THE MITOCHONDRIA" on Monday, November 15, 2021 under the direction of Dr. Binghe Wang. Committee: Drs. Binghe Wang (Chair), Suazette Mooring, Maged Henary.
Archana Iyer (#280 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC INVESTIGATION OF D-ARGININE DEHYDROGENASE AND L-ARGININE DEHYDROGENASE FROM PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA” on November 15, 2021. Committee: G. Gadda (chair), D. Hamelberg, I. Weber.
Daniel Ouedraogo (#281 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “KINETIC STUDIES AND INVESTIGATION OF ACTIVE SITE LOOP DYNAMICS IN A FLAVIN-DEPENDENT ENZYME, D-ARGININE DEHYDROGENASE” on November 30, 2021. Committee: G Gadda (chair), D. Hamelberg, D. Dixon.
Please join the department in congratulating them!