Congratulations to the following students for successfully defending their PhD dissertations in Spring/Fall 2008!
Sean Stowell, "Modulation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity by Galectin Family Members"
Brandon Fornwalt, "New Methods for Quantifying the Synchrony of Contraction and Relaxation in the Heart"
Christopher Corso, "Theoretical and experimental development of a ZnO-Based laterally excited thickness shear mode acoustic wave immunosensor for cancer biomarker detection"
Dominic Ansari, "Raman-encoded nanoparticles for biomolecular detection and cancer diagnostics"
Eric Severson, "Mechanisms of outside-in JAM-A mediated signaling"
William (Brian) Dalton, "DNA Damage During Mitotic Arrest: A Novel, p53-Regulated Source of Structural Chromosome Instability in Human Cells"
Elisa Margolis, "Within-host ecology and evolution of nasal colonizing bacteria: Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus"
Winston Lee, "Structure Function Analysis of SIRPα-CD47 Interactions"
Brandon Kohrt, "War and Mental Health in Nepal"
Anna Wiste, "Neuronal nAchR genes in smoking behavior and addiction"
Shana Coley, "Opposing Roles of Interferon Gamma In Transplantation"
James (Muse) Davis, "The role of the granuloma in bacterial expansion and dissemination during early tuberculosis"