Dissertation Defenses

Seminars & Events

Graduates students present his/her research, including laying out the rationale behind choices and decisions, for example, regarding theory selection and research methods.

Please contact Lina Hansen (lhansen@stanford.edu) for location or Zoom info.

Watch short videos showcasing some of the previous dissertation defenses of our Immunology graduate students.

2024

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    February 15, 2024 Dissertation Defense Joe Gonzalez, Taia Wang Lab, "A transcriptional switch underlies the pro- and anti-inflammatory activity of distinct IgG glycoforms"
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    April 15, 2024 Dissertation Defense Tejas Dharmaraj, Paul Bollyky Lab, "Technology development to support clinical use of lytic bacteriophages"
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    April 17, 2024 Dissertation Defense Hayley Raquer, Juliana Idoyaga Lab, “Monocytes give rise to Langerhans cells that preferentially migrate to the lymph nodes at steady state”
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    April 17, 2024 Dissertation Defense Maddie Lee, Catherine Blish Lab, "Interrogating the natural killer cell response to COVID-19"
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    May 31, 2024 Dissertation Defense Kameron Rodrigues, Sidd Jaiswal and Stephen Montgomery Labs, "Innate immune responses in the contexts of clonal hematopoiesis and regular exercise""
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    June 07, 2024 Dissertation Defense Preksha Bhagchandani, Seung Kim and Everett Meyer Labs, "Advancing islet transplantation for diabetes through bone marrow chimerism"
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    October 11, 2024 Dissertation Defense Grayson Rodriguez, Chris Garcia Lab, "STAT Rebalancing with Engineered Cytokines"
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    November 11, 2024 Dissertation Defense Bryan Cannon, Sean Bendall Lab, “Mapping the Spatial Proteomic Landscape of Human Brain Tissue”
  • January 09, 2025 Dissertation Defense Jason Nideffer, Pras Jagannathan and Maria Grazia Roncarolo Labs