Neurosciences and Psychiatry

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

Last Updated: 7/16/25