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

Join Malia Koppin, PT, DPT, CSCS, WFS from Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) for this presentation touching on the importance of proactive strategies to maintain physical health, with a focus on workplace ergonomics, while pursuing work in graduate school and future careers.  Malia has extensive experience providing service to Harvard graduate students and will draw from this experience in highlighting frequent pitfalls resulting in workplace injuries. 

This session is part of the multi-session "PGE...

Read more about Workstation Ergonomics - The Benefits of Proper Posture (POSTPONED: new date in May will be posted soon)

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

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

James Harris

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Paola Arlotta, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of guided axon repair and molecular damage in neurons

Dissertation Defense, Monday, March 4, 2019
Seminar: 3:00 PM
Harvard University
Biolabs
Room 1080
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138