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Dissertation Defense Announcements

Michael M. Nguyen, PharmD, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Medication utilization, health services utilization, and healthcare expenditures of children with persistent asthma in Oklahoma Medicaid: 2016-2023

Date and Time: March 4, 2024 at 9:00 AM, Location: Robert M. Bird Library Auditorium (LIB 299) and Zoom 

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Grant H. Skrepnek, Ph.D., M.Sc., R.Ph.; Kevin C. Farmer, Ph.D., R.Ph.; Michael J. Smith Ph.D., R.Ph.; R. Chris Rathbun, Pharm.D.; Janis E. Campbell, Ph.D., M.Sc.

 

 

 

Kyla B. Tooley, Physiology

Unraveling the role of DNA modifications in cell type-specific genome regulation during aging

Date and Time: February 22, 2024, 10:00am, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC) Room 109 & Zoom

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Willard Freeman, Ph.D. (Chair), Michael Beckstead, Ph.D., Sanjay Bidichandani, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Michael Elliott, Ph.D., and Benjamin Miller, Ph.D.

 

 

Victor A. Ansere, Physiology

Reversing age-related epigenetic patterns

Date and Time: January 29th, 2024, 11:00 AM CST, Location: Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109 and Zoom

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Willard Freeman, Ph.D., Chair; Benjamin Miller, Ph.D.; Amanda Sharpe, Ph.D.; Tommy Lewis, Ph.D.; Patrick Gaffney, M.D.

 

 

Mariana T. Mendez, Pathology 

ROLE OF MER RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CELL SURVIVAL

Date and Time: January 18, 2024, 01:00PM, Location: Biomedical Research Center, BRC 109

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Asish K. Ghosh, PhD, Joe Zhao, PhD, Maria Ruiz-Echevarria, PhD, Jennifer Holter-Chakrabarty, MD, Wei-Qun Ding, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

Justin Daniel Dvorak, Biostatistics

A Concordance Index for Censored Bivariate Survival Times and a Multivariance-Based Index for Multidimensional Time Series

Date and Time: December 7, 2023, 03:00PM, Location: Hudson College of Public Health, Room 204

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Kai Ding, PhD, Laura A. Beebe, PhD, Sixia Chen, PhD, Evan L. Floyd, PhD, Ying Zhang, PhD, Yan Daniel Zhao, PhD

 

 

Joshua Mettlach, Microbiology & Immunology

Regulatory Mechanisms of Salmonella Enterica Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis

Date and Time: December 7, 2023, 01:00PM, Location: BRC 109

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Zachary Dalebroux, PhD, Darrin Akins, PhD, Lauren Zenewicz, PhD, Kevin Brown, PhD, Augen Pioszak, PhD

 

 

 

John Grady Heller, Epidemiology

DISEASE SEVERITY, LOCATION, AND WASTEWATER BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OKLAHOMA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Date and Time: December 01, 2023, 09:00 AM, Location: Hudson College of Public Health, room 144

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Katrin G. Kuhn, Ph.D., Aron M. Wendelboe, Ph.D., Mary Williams, Ph.D., Michael P. Anderson, Ph.D., David Ebert, Ph.D.

 

 

 

Christopher Dunn, Microbiology & Immunology

Modeling Osteoarthritis Progression with DNA Methylation Patterns from Peripheral Blood Immune Cells

Date and Time: November 28, 2023, 12 pm CST, Location: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Wileman Auditorium, 825 NE 13th St., Oklahoma City

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Matlock Jeffries, M.D. (Committee Chair), Mary Beth Humphrey, M.D., Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair), Mark L. Lang, Ph.D., Kevin Brown, Ph.D., Robert Axtell, Ph.D., Sanjay Bidichandani, M.B.B.S, Ph.D.

 

 

 

Ameera Hasan, Microbiology & Immunology

Comparative Analysis of Thymic Involution and Conserved Thymic B Cell Dynamics in Zebrafish and Humans

Date & Time: September 18, 2023, 2:00 PM, Location: BRC 109 and Zoom

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: J. Kimble Frazer, MD, PhD, William Hildebrand, PhD, Lauren A. Zenewicz, PhD, Jose Alberola-Ila, PhD, Chris Sansam, PhD

 

 

 

 

Janet Faakye, Neuroscience

Age-Related Cerebral Microhemorrhages: Morphologies and Prevention

Date & Time: September 14, 2023, 11:00 AM CST, Location: Bird Library Auditorium

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Anna Csiszar, PhD, Jody Summers, PhD, Martin-Paul Agbaga, PhD, Maureen Cox, PhD, Shannon Conley, PhD, Zoltan Ungvari, MD, PhD

 

 

Hannah Bowen, Microbiology & Immunology

The Identification and Characterization of a Novel Transport System in Borrelia burgdorferi Orthologous to the Lipopolysaccharide Transport System

Date & Time: August 23, 2023, 2:00 PM CST, Location: BRC 109 and Zoom

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Darrin Akins, PhD, David Dyer, PhD, Maureen Cox, PhD, Zachary Dalebroux, PhD, Paul DeAngelis, PhD

 

 

 

 

Saurabh Gawde, Microbiology & ImmunologySaurabh%20Gawde_2021

Identification of Clinically-Relevant Biomarkers of Two Neuro-Inflammatory Diseases: Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Date & Time: August 9, 2023, 10:00 AM CST, Location: BRC 109 and Zoom

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Robert Axtell, PhD, Lauren Zenewicz, PhD, William Hildebrand, PhD, Jose Alberola-Ila, MD, PhD, Scott Plafker, PhD

 

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