Taleah Farasyn | Department of Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | ASSESSING IMPAIRED OATP1B1- AND OATP1B3-MEDIATED TRANSPORT BY MTOR INHIBITORS, MULTI-KINASE INHIBITOR VEMURAFENIB AND BY PROTEIN KINASE C ACTIVATION
Defense Date: Friday, December 7, 2018 | 10:00 am | College of Pharmacy Building, Room 339
Committee in Charge: Wei Yue, PhD Chair; Nathan Shankar, PhD; Doris M. Benbrook, PhD, Lucila Garcia-Contreras, PhD, Guangpu Li, PhD
Jennifer Leigh Heck | Graduate Nursing | “It was a Season…” Postpartum Depression in American/Alaska Native Women
Defense Date: Friday, December 7, 2018 | 1:00 pm | College of Nursing Building, Room 473
Committee in Charge: Janet Sullivan Wilson, PhD, RN, Chair; Valerie Eschiti, PhD, RN; Barbara J. Holtzclawz, PhD, RN, FAAN; Stephanie Marfurt, PhD, RN and Judy Goforth Parker, PhD, APRN, FACHE
Maulin M. Patel | Department of Cell Biology | Role of ADTRP (Androgen-Dependent Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor Regulating Protein) in Vascular Development and Function
Defense Date: Friday, November 30, 2018 | 2 - 3 pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Florea Lupu, PhD, Chair; Lorin E. Olson, PhD; Sathish R. Srinivasan, PhD; Eric W. Howard, PhD; Lijun Xia, MD, PhD
Hem Sapkota | Department of Cell Biology | Determinants and Consequences of Cohesion Fatigue in Mammalian Cells
Defense Date: Friday, October 8, 2018 | 12 Noon | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Gary J. Gorbsky, PhD, Chair; Susannah Rankin, PhD; Scott M. Plafker, PhD; Leonidas Tsiokas, PhD; Karla K. Rodgers, PhD
Hailey Houson | Department of Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Glucaric Acid As A Positron Emission Tomography Agent to Detect Necrosis
Defense Date: Friday, October 12, 2018 | 1:00 pm | College of Pharmacy Building, Room 339
Committee in Charge: Vibhudutta Awasthi, PhD, Chair; Kelly M. Standifer, PhD; Alexander L. Mdzinarishvili PhD; Michael A. Ihnat, PhD; Garo P. Basmadjian, PhD; Rheal A. Towner, PhD
Chelsea L. Smith | Department of Allied Health Sciences | Sibling’s Influence on Subsiding Behaviors Related to Obesity (SIS-BRO)
Defense Date: Wednesday, June 27 , 2018 | 10:00 am | College of Allied Health Building, Room 1117
Committee in Charge:
Susan B. Sisson, PhD; Sandra H. Arnold, PhD; Jennifer L. Graef PhD; Laura Hubbs-Tait, PhD; Allen W. Knehans PhD
Jordan Hearod | Department of Health Promotion Sciences | Lessons Learned from Three Qualitative Inquiries
Defense Date: Monday, June 4 , 2018 | 1:30 pm | Tulsa Schusterman Center, Room 1G12
Committee in Charge:
Thomas Teasdale, DrPH, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH, Alicia L. Salvatore, DrPH, MPH, Marianna S. Wetherill, PhD, MPH, RDN-AP/LD, Lisa Byers, MSW, PhD
Elizabeth Koldoff | Graduate Nursing | Transition to Early Intervention for Infants with Very Low Birth Weight
Defense Date: Monday, May 7, 2018 | 10 am | Fran and Earl Zeigler College of Nursing Building, Room 222
Committee in Charge: Barbara Holtzclaw, PhD, RN, FAAN; Thubi Kolobe, PhD, FAPTA; Kathleen Knafl, PhD, FAAN; Mark Fisher, PhD, RN; Janet Sullivan-Wilson, PhD, APRN
Defense Date: Thursday, May 3, 2018 | 1:00 pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Mark Coggeshall, PhD; Jimmy D. Ballard, PhD; Madeleine Cunningham, PhD, Eric Howard, PhD; Mark Lang, PhD
JADITH ZIEGLER | Pathology | Novel Therapies Against Gliomas
Defense Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 | 2:30 pm | Hensley Library, Biomedical Science Bldg, Room 433
Committee in Charge: Rheal Towner, PhD, Courtney Griffin, PhD, Wei-Qun Ding, PhD, Priyabrata, Mukherjee, PhD, James Battiste, MD, PhD
Alaina Reagan | Neuroscience | CAVEOLIN-1 REGULATES SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY IN AGING AND RETINAL INJURY
Defense Date: Monday, March 5, 2018 | 1pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Michael H. Elliott, PhD; Michelle Callegan, PhD; David Sherry, PhD; Scott Plafker, PhD; Ferenc Deak, PhD; Mark Lang, PhD
Defense Date: Thursday, March 1 2018 | 2pm | College of Pharmacy Building , Room 339
Committee in Charge: Lucila Garcia-Contreras, PhD, Chair; Doris M. Benbrook, PhD; Nathan Shankar, PhD; Michael Ihnat, PhD; Stanley D. Kosanke, PhD
Megan L. Brophy | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Myeloid-specific deletion of epsins 1 and 2 ameliorates atherosclerosis by preventing LRP-1 downregulation and inflammatory macrophage phenotype
Defense Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 | 11 am | Basic Sciences Education Building , Room 276
Committee in Charge: Hong Chen, PhD, Co-Chair, Ann Louise Olson, PhD, Co-Chair, Guangpu Li, PhD, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, PhD, Karla Rodgers, PhD, Xin Zhang, PhD
Defense Date: Monday, January 29, 2018 | 2 pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Ferenc Deak, MD, PhD; Beverley Greenwood - Van Meerveld, PhD; Jose Rizo-Rey, PhD; Robert E Anderson, MD, PhD; Rheal Towner, PhD; William E Sonntag, PhD
Defense Date: Monday, January 8, 2018 | 1 pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Robert E. Anderson, MD, PhD, Nawajes A. Mandal, PhD, Eric W. Howard, PhD, Linda F. Thompson, PhD, James J. Tomasek, PhD, Dimitris Karamichos, PhD
Defense Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 | 10 am | College of Public Health Building, Room 144
Committee in Charge: Thomas A. Teasdale, DrPH, Chair; Lori L. Jervis, Ph.D., Kerstin M. Reinschmidt, Ph.D.; Lancer Stephens, Ph.D.; Ying Zhang, Ph.D.
Susan Woods | Department of Allied Health Sciences | THE IMPACT OF DIET AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON BODY COMPOSITION AND ABILITY TO WALK FOR A TIME IN ADULTS WITH PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME
Defense Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 | 1 pm | College of Allied Health Building, Room 3025
Committee in Charge: Allen W. Knehans, PhD, Sandra Arnold, PhD, Carol Dionne, PhD, Leah Hoffman, PhD, Peggy Turner, MS
Pharavee Jaiprasart | Department of Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Approach for a Rational Development of Gene-Targeting Combination Cancer Therapy
Defense Date: Friday, December 8, 2017 | 12 Noon | College of Pharmacy Building, Room 101 OUHSC
Committee in Charge: Sukyung Woo, PhD, Chair; Jessie L.-S. Au, PharmD, PhD; Kelly Standifer, PhD; Youngjae You, PhD; Takemi Tanaka, PhD
Kaitlin Calhoun | Department of Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Phenotypic and Genetic Influences Upon the Cutaneous Inflammatory Response
Defense Date: Monday, December 4, 2017 | 9:30 am | College of Pharmacy Building, Room 339 OUHSC
Committee in Charge: Randle M. Gallucci, PhD, Robert Dale Foreman, PhD, Michael A. Ihnat, PhD, William Michael McShan, PhD, Kent Teague, PhD
Nyssa C. Cullin | Department of Microbiology and Immunology | CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MUREIN HYDROLASE LYTF OF STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS
Defense Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | 1:30 pm | Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library Building, Auditorium Room 299
Committee in Charge: Jens Kreth, PhD, Co-Chair; David Dyer, PhD, Co-Chair; Darrin Akins, PhD; Eric Howard, PhD; Rodney Tweten, PhD; Lauren Zenewicz, PhD
Regina Greuel Cook | Department of Health Promotion Sciences | OBESITY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS IN THE MOST AND LEAST OBESE STATES: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATE OBESITY LEGISLATION RELATED TO THE FOOD ENVIRONMENT
Defense Date: Monday, October 30, 2017 | 1:00 pm | College of Public Health Building, Room 144
Committee in Charge: Thomas A. Teasdale, DrPH, Chair; Janis Campbell, PhD; Marshall Cheney, PhD; Karla Finnell, PhD, JD; Amir Khaliq, PhD; Diane Warren, PhD