DONP Alumni Archives
MD/PHD - NND
Justin Creeden: Defense date: 3/14/22 Defense title: Signaling Networks that Drive Deleterious Outcomes in the Pancreas and Liver Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Joseph Lee: Defense Date: 5/8/2019 Defense Title: Role of peripheral GABAA receptors in the postganglionic regulation of parotid secretion Advisor: Dr. David Giovannucci
PHD - NND
Khaled Alganem: Defense date: 3/28/22 Defense title: Network-Based Integration of Multi-Omics Datasets Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Kelsey Murphy : Defense Date: 11/7/2019 Defense Title: BBB bypassing polysaccharide mini-GAGR activates the neuronal Nrf2-medicated antioxidant defense system for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease Advisor: Dr. Joshua Park
Amanda Blaker : Defense Date: 6/6/2019 Defense Title: Neurotoxic interactions between methamphetamine and alcohol drinking Advisor: Dr. Joshua Park
MSBS -BIPG
Leah Stevenson: Defense Date: 8/1/22 Defense Title: Investigation of the Gut Microbiome using Machine Learning as a diagnostic aid for Food Allergies Advisor: Dr. Bina Joe
Kathryn Helminiak: Defense date: 7/18/22 Defense title: Combined Analysis of HCUP’s NEDS Data in Conjunction with Publicly Available Genomics Databases to Investigate Harmful Algal Bloom Impacts on Human Health. Advisor: Dr. David Kennedy
William Ryan: Defense Date: 4/22/22 Defense title: A Conserved Cortical Computation Revealed by Connecting Behavior to Whole-Brain Activity in C. elegans: An In-Silico Systems Approach Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Evelyn Bates: Defense date: 4/20/22 Defense title: Identifying Transcriptional Gene Signatures for Suicide Across Neuropsychiatric Disorders Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Vineet Reddy: Defense date: 4/18/22 Defense title: Single Cell Transcriptomic-informed Microcircuit Computer Modelling of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Elizabeth Shedroff : Defense date: 4/15/22 Defense title: Assessment of the Active Kinome in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Renal Transplant Patients Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Alex Joyce: Defense date: 4/1/22 Defense title: Analysis of AKT1 activity in Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia though Kinopedia, an interactive application for kinome array data Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Kaitlyn Zigulis: Defense date: 8/3/21 Defense title: Expression of FcgammaRIIA Across Species Advisor: Dr. Randell Worth
Sachin Aryal: Defense date: 6/25/21 Defense title: Applications of artificial intelligence/machine learning for cardiovascular diseases Advisor: Dr. Bina Joe
Ishan Manandhar: Defense date: 6/23/21 Defense title: Artificial intelligence-based clinical classification of diseases: Utilizing gut microbiota as a feature for supervised learning and diagnostic screening of inflammatory bowel diseases Advisor: Dr. Bina Joe
John Dillon: Defense date: 4/30/21 Defense title: Head and neck radiotherapy induces a transcriptional profile associated with inflammation Advisor: Dr. Heather Conti
Melissa Curtis: Defense date: 4/22/21 Defense Title: Advisor: Dr. James Burkett
Joyeeta Dutta: Defense date: 4/20/21 Defense title: Identifying a biomarker for systemic sclerosis using existing genomic data Advisor: Dr. Sadik Khuder
Hunter Eby: Defense date: 4/19/21 Defense title: Enhancing pathway analysis utilizing natural language processing and text mining Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Scott Miruzzi: Defense date: 4/19/21 Defense title: Bilirubin exerts hormonal regulation on transcription of genes through modulation of key coregulator protein recruitment Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
Bhuwan Rai: Defense date: 4/12/21 Defense title: Data pooling to investigate the abundance of gut microbiome composition in autoimmune disease Advisor: Dr. Sadik Khuder
Alexander mccartney: Defense date: 4/1/21 Defense title: Identifying multiple sclerosis biomarkers using existing omics data Advisor: Dr. Sadik Khuder
Ali imami: Defense date: 4/1/2021 Defense title: Modelling causal kinase networks and their differential analysis in schizophrenia Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith
MSBS- NND
Mackenzie Abel: Defense Date: 7/20/20 Defense Title: Characterizing the KEOPS complex in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Advisor: Dr. Robert Smith