MSTP Thesis Defenses
Sofia Essayan-Perez
Identification of chemically defined dietary gluten peptides from patients with celiac disease
Lab of Thomas Südhof, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences
Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 12:00 pm
LKSC 130 and via Zoom
Nielson Weng
Identification of chemically defined dietary gluten peptides from patients with celiac disease
Lab of Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Friday, May 6, 2022, 3:00 pm
Alway 114 and via Zoom
Adele Xu
Identification of chemically defined dietary gluten peptides from patients with celiac disease
Lab of Maria Barna, PhD
Department of Genetics
Friday, May 6, 2022, 1:30 pm
LKSC 120 and via Zoom
Francisco Galdos
Stem cell and machine learning approaches for understanding heart field development
Lab of Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Monday, May 2, 2022, 3:30 pm
LKSC 120 and via Zoom
Suhas Rao
Building a wiring diagram of the human genome
Labs of Roger Kornberg, PhD & Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD
Program in Biophysics
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 1:00 pm
LKSC 101/102 and via Zoom
Jeffrey Wang
Mapping the whole-brain response to noninvasive neuromodulation: From rodents to humans
Lab of Raag Airan, MD, PhD
Program in Biophysics
Monday, December 13, 2021, 1:30 pm
Lucas P083 and via Zoom
Anthony Cordova
Defining the Role of Extracellular cGAMP Signaling in Health and Disease
Lab of Lingyin Li
Cancer Biology Program
Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 2:00pm
(Via Zoom)
Margaret Guo
Decoding Transcription Regulatory Patterns in Health and Disease
Labs of P Khavari and R Altman
Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 3:00pm
(Via Zoom)
Shamik Mascharak
Mechanisms of Postnatal Mammalian Skin Regeneration
Lab of Michael Longaker, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicibne
Monday, July 26, 2021 at 10:00am
(Via Zoom)
Kevin Thomas
Deep learning tools to accelerate knee osteoarthritis research
Lab of Scott Delp, PhD
Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program
Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 1:30 pm
(Via Zoom)
Daniel Mokhtari
Developing and Applying Quantitative High-Throughput Microfluidics to Elucidate Enzyme Functional Architecture
Labs of Daniel Herschlag, PhD & Polly Fordyce, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 1pm
(Via Zoom)
Madeleine Scott
Mano a Mono: Monocytes Across Disease and Vaccination
Lab of Purvesh Khatri, PhD
Program in Biophysics
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 11am
(Via Zoom)
Akshay Maheshwari
Colloidal Physics Modeling of Biomolecular Behavior to Enable Cell Building
Labs of Drew Endy, PhD & Roseanna Zia, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 11am
(Via Zoom)
Brian Hsueh
Tools for Dissecting Neural Circuits of Interoception and Autonomic Regulation
Lab of Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences
Thursday, May 27 at 12pm
(Via Zoom)
Daniel Kim
An Integrative Deep Learning Framework Reveals a Dynamic, Combinatorial Cis-Regulatory Lexicon in Epidermal Differentiation
Labs of Paul Khavari MD, PhD, & Anshul Kundaje, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 3pm
(Via Zoom)
Ragini Phansalkar
Convergence of Blood Vessel Lineages During Mouse and Human Heart Development
Lab of Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Department of Genetics
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 9am
(Via Zoom)
Amar Mirza
Nuclear Tuning in Basal Cell Carcinoma
Lab of Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
April 21, 2021 at 12pm
(Via Zoom)
Benjie Smith
Siglecs: Identifying Glycan Markers of Self
Lab of Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD
Program in Chemical and Systems Biology
March 22, 2021 at 12pm
(Via Zoom)
Joy He
Identification and Characterization of Human Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells
Lab of Irv Weissman, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
March 10, 2021 at 10am
(Via Zoom)
Paras Minhas
Immunometabolic Regulation of Inflammation in Aging and Disease
Lab of Katrin Andreasson, MD
Program in Neurosciences
December 14, 2020, 2:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Luke Pennington
Engineering Protein Complex Disruption: Development of Rapid Acting anti-IgE Inhibitors
Lab of Ted Jardetzky, PhD
Program in Immunology
September 22, 2020, 1:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Ellie Beam
A data-driven ontology of brain function: Engineered, interrogated, and clinically applied
Lab of Amit Etkin, MD, PhD
Program in Neurosciences
August 13, 2020, 12:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Akshay Sanghi
A chromatin basis for protein expression in cancer
Lab of Michael Snyder, PhD
Department of Genetics
July 29, 2020, 2:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Katherine McNamara
Quantifying Tumor Evolutionary Dynamics and Predictors of Response in HER2-positive Breast Cancer Treated with Targeted Therapy
Lab of Christina Curtis, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
June 3, 2020, 2:30 pm
(Via Zoom)
Liana Bonanno
Examining the role of microglia in Niemann-Pick Type C
Lab of Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
Program in Neurosciences
May 28, 2020, 1:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Yonglu Che
KRAS regulation by small non-coding RNAs and SNARE proteins
Lab of Paul Khavari, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
April 1, 2020, 1:00 pm
(Via Zoom)
Leighton Daigh
Putting the brakes on the cell cycle - CDK4/6 inhibition in cellular aging and cancer therapy
Lab of Tobias Meyer, PhD
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
March 10, 2020, 1:30 pm
Clark Center Auditorium
Stanford Schor
BIKE regulates dengue virus infection via CLINT1 phosphorylation and is a host target for broad-spectrum antivirals
Lab of Shirit Einav, MD
Program in Cancer Biology
March 9, 2020, 9:30 am
Munzer Auditorium
Catherine Yao
Non-canonical Hedgehog signaling mechanisms of resistance in basal cell carcinoma
Lab of Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
February 28, 2020, 11:00 am
Clark Center S-360
Yong Tang
A simple genetic approach to investigate the biogenesis of the malarial plastid organelle
Lab of Ellen Yeh MD, PhD
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
November 19, 2019, 1:30 pm
Munzer Auditorium
César Márquez
Leveraging Protein Evolution to Elucidate Novel Oncogenic Signaling Axes in the Treatment of Lung Adenocarcinoma
Lab of Alejandro Sweet-Cordero MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
September 30, 2019, 3:00 pm
LKSC 130
Gerald Tiu
Lost in Translation: How Broken Ribosomes Lead to Tissue Specific Phenotypes in Developmental Diseases
Lab of Maria Barna, PhD
Department of Genetics
September 26, 2019, 1:30 pm
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman Building
Suchita Rastogi
Differential Impacts on Host Transcription by ROP and GRA Effectors from the Intracellular Parasite Toxoplasma gondii
Lab of John Boothroyd, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
September 18, 2019, 3 pm
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman Building
Benson George
Antibody Approaches to Enable Hematopoietic Stem Cell and Organ Transplant
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Cancer Biology
September 16, 2019, 3 pm
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman Building
Thomas Chew
Structure and mechanism of the cation-chloride cotransporter NKCC1
Lab of Liang Feng, PhD
Program in Biophysics
August 16, 2019, 10 am
LKSC 101/102
Arek Melkonian
The Allostery of Transglutaminase 2 and Its Role in Coeliac Disease
Lab of Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering
August 1, 2019, 2 pm
Allen Building Annex Room 101X
330 Serra Mall
Binbin Chen
Deep learning for predicting antigen presentation
Labs of Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD and Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Department of Genetics
July 24, 2019, 2:30 pm
LKSC 102
Andrew Beel
Principles of Chromosome Condensation
Lab of Roger Kornberg, PhD
Program in Biophysics
July 23, 2019, 2:00 pm
Alway M-112
Surya Nagaraja
Variant and cell-context specific H3K27M reprogramming results in distinct enhancer architecture and oncogenic states
Lab of Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
July 22, 2019, 10:00 am
LKSC120
Ericka von Kaeppler
IL-4 to the Rescue: How a Type 2 cytokine protects against post-traumatic osteoarthritis
Lab of Bill Robinson, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
June 6, 2019, 3:00 pm
Alway M106
Amira Barkal
Lab of Irving Weissman, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
May 31, 2019
John Pluvinage
Tidying up the aging brain: microglia-directed therapies to restore brain homeostasis
Lab of Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
May 24, 2019, 2:00 pm
LKSC 120
Tyler Prestwood
Mela-no-more: Using Myeloid Cells for Melanoma Immunotherapy
Lab of Edgar Engleman, MD
Program in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
May 22, 2019, 3:30 pm
Alway M112
Gunsagar Gulati
Cytometric and Genomic Dissection of Stem Cell Hierarchies
Labs of Irving Weissman, MD and Aaron Newman, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
May 14, 2019, 2:00 pm
Munzer Auditorium
Caitlin Roake
Biogenesis of Telomerase RNA in homeostasis and disease
Lab of Steven Artandi, MD, PhD
Program in Cancer Biology
May 13, 2019
Amin Aalipour
Lab of Sanjiv Gambhir, MD, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
May 13, 2019
Zahra Sayyid
Regeneration and functional recovery of the adult mouse utricle
Lab of Albert Cheung, MD
Program in Neurosciences
March 28, 2019
Shyam Sathyamoorthi
Lab of Richard Zare, PhD
Department of Chemistry
February 9, 2019
Lichy Han
Lab of Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Program in Biomedical Informatics
November 15, 2018