Nana Safoah Twum-Ampofo | Department of Allied Health Sciences | POSTURAL SWAY VELOCITY AND SITTING ACQUISITION AMONG INFANTS WITH AND WITHOUT THE RISK FOR CEREBRAL PALSY
Defense Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 | 4:00 pm | Allied Health Building, Room 3025
Committee in Charge: Thubi H.A. Kolobe PT, PhD, FAPTA; Carol P. Dionne DPT, PhD; Andrew Fagg PhD; Elizabeth Hile PT, PhD; Nicholas Stergiou PhD
Gavin Pharaoh | Department of Physiology | Targeting Hydroperoxides in Neurogenic Atrophy
Defense Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 | 9:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Holly Van Remmen, PhD, Chair Willard M. Freeman, PhD; Kenneth M. Humphries, PhD; Scott M. Plafker, PhD; Arlan G. Richardson, PhD; Kevin R. Short, PhD
Michael George Machiorlatti | Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology | EXPLORATION OF SELECTION BIAS, THE HECKMAN CORRECTION AND MISSING DATA IMPUTATION
Defense Date: Friday, November 22, 2019 | 12:30 pm | College of Public Health, Room 144
Committee in Charge: Sixia Chen, PhD, Co-Chair, Sara Vesely, PhD, Co-Chair, Janis Campbell, PhD, Kai Ding, PhD, and James George, MD.
Samrita Dogra | Department of Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Apelin/APJ Pathway: Functional Characterization in Drug Resistance and Metastasis in Ovarian Cancer
Defense Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | 12:00 Noon| College of Pharmacy Building, Room 101
Committee in Charge: Sukyung Woo, PhD, Chair; Youngjae You, PhD; Jessie L. Au, PharmD, PhD; Randle Gallucci, PhD; Resham Bhattacharya, PhD
Kimberly Perrella Veirs | Allied Health Sciences | EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF FIRST METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT MOBILITY ON THE YOUNG BALLET DANCER’S ABILITY TO ASSUME THE EN POINTE POSITION USING A MULTI-SEGMENT FOOT MODEL
Defense Date: Monday, November 18, 2019 | 7:00 am | College of Allied Health Building, Room 3025
Committee in Charge: Carol P. Dionne, DPT, PhD, Chair; Andrew Fagg, PhD; Amgad Haleem, MD, PhD; Lynn Jeffries, PT, PhD; Kenneth E. Randall, PT, PhD; Susan Sisson, RD, PhD
Erich A. Schnell | Department of Radiological Sciences | High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Gynecologic Cancers
Defense Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 | 12:30 pm | Stephenson Cancer Center, Room 6036
Committee in Charge: Tania De La Fuente Herman, PhD, Chair; Salahuddin Ahmad, PhD; Spencer Thompson, MD; Hosang Jin, PhD; Daniel Zhao, PhD; Jagadeesh Sonnad, PhD
Hooman Yari | Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen-Targeted Theranostic Liposomes for Active Targeting of Prostate
Defense Date: Monday, November 4, 2019 | 10:00 am | College of Pharmacy Building, Room 339
Committee in Charge: Vibhudutta Awasthi, PhD, Chair; Nathan Shankar, PhD; Michael A. Ihnat, PhD; Alamdar Hussain, PhD; Rheal A. Towner, PhD
James Quinn | Microbiology and Immunology | Characterizing and Assessing the Role of Follicular T Helper Cells and BCL6 in Th17-EAE Disease Progression
Defense Date: Thursday, September, 26, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Robert C. Axtell, PhD, Daniel J. Carr, PhD, Mark L. Lang, PhD, Lauren A. Zenewicz, PhD, Christopher J. Lessard, PhD
Ngoc Quyen Thi Duong | Biostatistics and Epidemiology | Bayesian Posterior Kernel Density Estimation Using a Conjugate Gamma Prior
Defense Date: Thursday, August, 15, 2019 | 9:00 am | Hudson College of Health Building, Room 204
Committee in Charge: Michael P. Anderson, PhD; Sara K. Vesely, PhD; Ying Zhang, MD, PhD; Janis E.Campbell, PhD; Clara H. Song, MD
Sarah Ann Colijn | Department of Cell Biology | Cell-Specific Regulation and Function of RIPK3 in the Embryonic and Postnatal Vasculature
Defense Date: Monday, August, 19, 2019 | 2:00 pm | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Courtney T. Griffin, PhD; Lawrence I. Rothblum, PhD; Lorin E. Olson, PhD; Florea Lupu, PhD; Rodger P. McEver, MD
Sapana Kadel | DEPARTMENT of MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY | Sex Differences In Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells in homeostasis and influenza virus infection
Defense Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE: Susan Kovats, PhD; Daniel JJ Carr, PhD; Lauren A. Zenewicz, PhD; Mark L. Lang, PhD; Karla K. Rodgers, PhD
YUE LI | DEPARTMENT of PHYSIOLOGY | THE REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF DTMEM214 IN THE CONTROL OF GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS IN DROSOPHILA
Defense Date: Thursday, July 25, 2019 | 1:00 pm | Biomedical Sciences Building, Room 631
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE:: Hui-Ying Lim, PhD, Chair; Raju V.S. Rajala, PhD; Weidong Wang, PhD; Paul L. DeAngelis, Ph.D; Ann Louise Olson, PhD
Anna Marie Jilla | Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders | Affordability and Willingness to Pay: Applications of Healthcare Economics in Audiology
Defense Date: Thursday, July, 11, 2019 | 1:00 pm | Allied Health Building, Rm 1047
Committee in Charge: Carole E. Johnson, PhD, AuD, Chair; Mary A. Hudson, PhD; Nick C. Huntington-Klein, PhD; Andrew B. John, PhD; Catherine V. Palmer, PhD; Ying Zhang, MD, MS, PhD
Yifan Xu | Department of Pathology | Exosomal Micrornas in Pancreatic Cancer: Mechanisms of Selective Enrichment and the Potential for Biomarker Development
Defense Date: Monday, July, 15, 2019 | 9:00 am | Hensley Library, Biomedical Sciences Building, Rm 433
Committee in Charge: WeiQun Ding, PhD, Chair; Zhizhuang Joe Zhao, PhD; Priyabrata Mukherjee, PhD; Guangpu Li, PhD; Doris M. Benbrook, PhD
Casey Cooper | Occupational and Environmental Health | Development, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Air Sampling Methods to Assess Airborne Transport of Clostridium difficile Spores in the Healthcare Environment
Defense Date: Friday, June, 28, 2019 | 12:00 Noon | Hudson College of Public Health, Room 420
Committee in Charge: David L. Johnson, PhD, Chair; Margaret L. Phillips, PhD; Aaron M.
Wendelboe, PhD; Bradley S. Stevenson, PhD; Jun Wang, PhD
Hannah Berrett | Cell Biology | The role of E protein activity in effector program differentiation of invariant Natural Killer T cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells
Defense Date: Monday, June, 17, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Jose Alberola-Ila, MD, PhD; Xiao-Hong Sun, PhD; Eric Howard, PhD; Kimble Frazer, PhD; Mark Lang, PhD
Joshua Moses Corbin | Department of Pathology | Functional Analyses of TMEFF2 in Prostate Regeneration and Cancer Lead to the Identification of a Prognostic Gene Signature and Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Prostate Cancer
Defense Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 | 8:30 am | Biomedical Science Building | Hensley Library, Room 433
Committee in Charge: Maria Ruiz-Echevarria, PhD, Doris Benbrook, PhD, Wei-Qun Ding, PhD, Yuechueng Liu, PhD, Joe Zhao, PhD
Alexandra Crowe | Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Regulation of Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide (OATP) 1B1 Transport Function and Phosphorylation by a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism c. 521 TC and Protein Kinase/Phosphatase Modulators
Defense Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | 2:00 pm | College of Pharmacy | Room 101
Committee in Charge: Wei Yue, PhD, Jessie L.S- Au, PharmD, PhD, Lucila Garcia-Contreras, PhD, Sukyung Woo, PhD, Doris Benbrook, PhD, and Jie Wu, PhD
Kaitlin McGrew | Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology | Estimation of and Correction for Misclassification of Injection Drug Use Status among Infective Endocarditis Hospitalizations
Defense Date: Monday, April 29, 2019 | 9:00 am | Hudson College of Public Health | Room 320
Committee in Charge: Tabitha Garwe, PhD, Co-Chair; Hélène Carabin, DVM, PhD, Co-Chair; Mary B. Williams, PhD; Yan Daniel Zhao, PhD; Douglas A. Drevets, MD; S. Reza Jafarzadeh, DVM, PhD
Valerie Lewis | Department of Pathology | Molecular characterization of CXorf21 provides further insight into sex disparities in both innate immunity and SLE pathogenesis
Defense Date: Monday, April 29, 2019 | 1:30 pm | Biomedical Science Building Room 433
Committee in Charge: Robert Hal Scofield, MD, Chair; Robert C. Axtell, PhD; Kristi Koelsch, PhD; Christopher J. Lessard, PhD; Yuechueng Liu, PhD; Zhizhuang Joe Zhao, PhD
Juell Homco | Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology | Impact of Misclassification Error on Estimated Cardiovascular Care Performance
Defense Date: Monday, April 29, 2019 | 1:00 pm | Hudson College of Public Health, Room 144
Committee in Charge: Hélène Carabin, DVM, PhD; Tabitha Garwe, PhD; Zsolt J. Nagykaldi, PhD Sydney A. Martinez, PhD; Yan Daniel Zhao, PhD
Benjamin Frempah | Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | THE ROLE OF IL-6Rα IN IRRITANT CONTACT DERMATITIS
Defense Date: Monday, April 29, 2019 | 9:00 am | College of Pharmacy, Room 339
Committee in Charge: Randle M. Gallucci, PhD, Chair; Michael A. Ihnat, PhD, William Michael McShan, PhD; Robert D. Foreman, PhD; T. Kent Teague, PhD; David M. Sherry; PhD
Rabab (Ruby) Sharif | Department of Cell Biology | Potential Role of Prolactin-Induced Protein as a Disease Biomarker and the Effect of Corneal Cross-Linking on Keratoconus Microenvironment
Defense Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center (BRC), Room 109
Committee in Charge: Dimitrios Karamichos, PhD; H. Anne Pereira, PhD; Randle M. Gallucci, PhD; Jody A. Summers, PhD; and Michelle C. Callegan, PhD
Kimberly McCullor | Graduate Pharmaceutical Sciences | Bacteriophage and Phage-Like Elements of Clinically Important Streptococci: Role in Horizontal Gene Transfer and Enhanced Virulence
Defense Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | 9:00 am | College of Pharmacy Building | Room 230
Committee in Charge: William M. McShan, PhD; Allison F. Gillaspy,
PhD Nathan Shankar, PhD; Michael A. Ihnat, PhD; H. Anne Pereira, PhD
Emily Clowdus | Cell Biology | Separable Roles for Rif1 in Replication Timing and Transcription Control During Early Embryonic Development
Defense Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Christopher L. Sansam, PhD, Chair;
Gary J. Gorbsky, PhD; Linda F. Thompson, PhD
Scott M. Plafker, PhD; Courtney T.
Griffin, PhD; David A. Jones, PhD
Shayna Medley | Cell Biology | The roleof STAT1 in the myofibroblast transition:
Defense Date: Monday, February 25, 2019 | 10:00 am | Biomedical Research Center, Room 109
Committee in Charge: Lorin E. Olson, PhD; James J. Tomasek, PhD; Eric W. Howard, PhD; Courtney T. Griffin, PhD; Florea Lupu, PhD; Jonathan D. Wren, PhD
Defense Date: Friday, February 22, 2019 | 11:00 am | Robert M. Bird Library Building, Room 299
Committee in Charge: Willard Freeman, PhD, (Chair); Arlan Richardson, PhD; Jonathan Wren, PhD; David Sherry, PhD; Cecil Lewis, PhD
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