Winter 2015 PhD Defenses
During the winter 2015 semester, several graduate students performing biomedical research successfully defended their PhD dissertation. Consider the significance of these students’ accomplishments: through their dissertation research they have discovered new knowledge that has contributed to our understanding of basic physiology and modern medicine. Now they are no longer our students, but have become our colleagues, collaborators, and friends. These young researchers--and their dedicated mentors--represent the best of Oakland University. Congratulations.
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bala Bharathi Burugula
Analyzing the Mechanisms Involved in Recruiting Spt6 to the Transcribed Regions Genome-Wide
Mentor: Chhabi Govind
Rachanna Radhamani Chandran
Smad Protein Dysmorphic Regulates the Maintenance of Luminal Matrix Components to Control Tube Size
Mentor: Lan Jiang
Mida B. Pezeshkian
The Role of Endothelial Cell Activation on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cell Survival, Growth, and Chemoresistance
Mentor: Gerard Madlambayan
Cameron Prigge
Regulation of Retinal Dopaminergic Amacrine Neuron Activity by Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells in Normal and Diseased Retinas
Mentor: Dao-Qi Zhang
Deepa Talreja
Host Pathogen Interactions in Ocular and Lung Infection
Mentor: Satish Walia
Biomedical Sciences: Medical Physics
Ji Hyun Lee
Detection of the Early Osteoarthritis Changes in the Function and Structure of Articular Cartilage
Mentor: Yang Xia
Biomedical Sciences: Health and Environmental Chemistry
Shi Chen
Nucleophile-Catalyzed Cycloadditions of Ketenes and Applications
Mentor: Nessan Kerrigan