DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Nicholas R DeStefino

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Jesse Gray, Department of Genetics

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of Neuronal Activity-Dependent Transcription

Dissertation Defense, Friday, March 29, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Jessica Elysse Sagers

Ph.D. Candidate in the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology program

Dissertation Advisor: Konstantina Stankovic, Department of Otology and Laryngology

Dissertation Title: Novel Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Strategies for Vestibular Schwannoma and Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Dissertation Defense, Thursday, March 28, 2019
Seminar: 2:00PM
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Floor 3
Meltzer Auditorium
243 Charles Street
Boston... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Jessica Elysse Sagers (SHBT)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Yu Wang

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: George Church, Department of Genetics

Dissertation Title: Highly multiplexed in situ protein imaging using DNA-Exchange-Imaging and Immuno-SABER

Dissertation Defense, Thursday, March 28, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Wyss Institute
Center for Life Science
Room 521
3 Blackfan circle
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Josef Turecek

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Wade Regehr, Department of Neurobiology

Dissertation Title: Synaptic specializations mediated by Synaptotagmin isoforms

Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02474

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Chester Chia

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Lisa Goodrich, Department of Neurobiology

Dissertation Title: Protecting Sub-Types of Primary Auditory Neurons from Acoustic Trauma

Dissertation Defense, Friday, March 22, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Zainab Murtaza Doctor

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Dissertation Advisor: Nathanael Gray, Department of BCMP

Dissertation Title: Illuminating the functions of understudied proteins using novel covalent and chemical genetic approaches 

Dissertation Defense, Friday, March 22, 2019
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Dana Farber Cancer Institute 
Longwood Center 4th... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Zainab Murtaza Doctor (BBS)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Samantha Linn Price Schilit

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Genetics and Genomics

Dissertation Advisor: Cynthia Morton, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Bio.

Dissertation Title: Uncovering novel cytogenetic and molecular etiologies for male infertility

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 350
77 Avenue... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Samantha Schilit (BBS)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Chen Lossos

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: David Weinstock, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Harnessing the Tumor Microenvironment for the Treatment of Double Hit Lymphoma

Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Seminar: 10:30 AM
Harvard Medical School
TMEC Building
Room 227
260 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02474

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Kostadin Ognianov Petrov

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Cell Biology

Dissertation Advisor: Adrian Salic, Department of Cell Biology

Dissertation Title: Functional Mechanisms of Patched1, the Hedgehog Pathway Receptor

Dissertation Defense, Monday, March 18, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Education Center
Walter Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA   ... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Kostadin Ognianov Petrov (BBS)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Thomas Patrick Howard

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Co-Dissertation Advisor: William Hahn, Department of Medicine and Charles Roberts

Dissertation Title: Identification and Characterization of Vulnerabilities in Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors

Dissertation Defense, Monday, March 18, 2019
Seminar: 2:30 PM
Harvard Medical School
Toteson Medical Education Center
Room 227... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Thomas Patrick Howard (BBS)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Sydney Lavoie

Ph.D. Candidate in the Committee on Immunology

Dissertation Advisor: Wendy Garrett, Department of Medicine

Dissertation Title: Modulation of Intestinal Immunity by ATG16L1 T300A and Ffar2

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Hayden Riley Schmidt

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Andrew Kruse, Department of BCMP

Dissertation Title: Structural and biochemical investigations of  receptors

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Building C
Cannon Room
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Natalie Marie Hendrick

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Joan Brugge, Department of Cell Biology

Dissertation Title:YAP Regulation of RHO GTPase Activities Controls Epithelial Cell Morphology and Adhesion

Dissertation Defense, Thursday, February 28, 2019
Seminar: 10:00 AM
Harvard Medical School
Building C
Cannon Room
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston,... Read more about Dissertation Defense Seminar: Natalie Marie Hendrick (BBS)

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Christina Welsh

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Beth Stevens, Department of Neurology

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of microglia-synapse interactions in visual system development and plasticity

Dissertation Defense, Monday, March 11, 2019
Seminar: 2:00 PM
Harvard Medical School
Goldenson Building
Room 122
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115

DMS Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Lisa Walker Witten

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Degree Subject: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation Advisor: Frank Slack, Department of Pathology

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of oncogenesis by miR-155

Dissertation Defense, Friday, March 8, 2019
Seminar: 1:00 PM
Boston Children's Hospital
Center for Life Science
Room 421
3 Black Fan Circle
Boston, MA  02115