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MCB Student Violet Sorrentino's Dissertation Defense Announcement
See you next week for Violet Sorrentino's (@wormentino.bsky.social ) dissertation defense!
Title: Investigating the role of phospholipid flippases in glial pruning of neuron endings
Lab: Singhvi Lab, FH
When: Wed., March 11, 1 p.m. PST
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Mark Andrade’s dissertation defense!
Title: Alpha-E-Catenin as a Gatekeeper of Beta-Cell Identity and Growth
Lab: Cirulli Lab, UW
When: Wednesday, March 11, 10 a.m. PST
Where: UW SLU, Brotman Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
MCB Student Violet Sorrentino's Dissertation Defense Announcement
Join us for Violet Sorrentino's (@wormentino.bsky.social ) dissertation defense!
Title: Investigating the role of phospholipid flippases in glial pruning of neuron endings
Lab: Singhvi Lab, FH
When: Wednesday, March 11, 1 p.m. PST
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Join us for Mark Andrade’s dissertation defense!
Title: Alpha-E-Catenin as a Gatekeeper of Beta-Cell Identity and Growth
Lab: Cirulli Lab, UW
When: Wednesday, March 11, 10 a.m. PST
Where: UW SLU, Brotman Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Kate LeBlanc’s defense!
Title: Nuclear speckle proteins modulate tau toxicity
Lab: Kraemer Lab, VA Puget Sound
When: Monday, February 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Kate LeBlanc’s defense!
Title: Nuclear speckle proteins modulate tau toxicity
Lab: Kraemer Lab, VA Puget Sound
When: Monday, February 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Join us for Kate LeBlanc’s defense!
Title: Nuclear speckle proteins modulate tau toxicity
Lab: Kraemer Lab, VA Puget Sound
When: Monday, February 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Andrew Snyder’s defense!
Title: cJun Overexpression Sensitizes CAR-T Cells to PD-1 Axis Blockade by Preserving an Intratumoral PD-1+ Tcf1+ Stem-Like Reservoir
Lab: Srivastava Lab, FH
When: Friday, Jan 30, 1 p.m. PDT
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Andrew Snyder’s defense!
Title: cJun Overexpression Sensitizes CAR-T Cells to PD-1 Axis Blockade by Preserving an Intratumoral PD-1+ Tcf1+ Stem-Like Reservoir
Lab: Srivastava Lab, FH
When: Friday, Jan 30, 1 p.m. PDT
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Join us for Andrew Snyder’s defense!
Title: cJun Overexpression Sensitizes CAR-T Cells to PD-1 Axis Blockade by Preserving an Intratumoral PD-1+ Tcf1+ Stem-Like Reservoir
Lab: Srivastava Lab, FH
When: Friday, Jan 30, 1 p.m. PDT
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Naomi Yamamoto’s dissertation defense!
Title: Oncofetal Proteins Drive Aggressive Disease in Basal Pancreatic Cancer
Lab: Kugel Lab, FH
When: Monday, January 12, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Naomi Yamamoto’s dissertation defense!
Title: Oncofetal Proteins Drive Aggressive Disease in Basal Pancreatic Cancer
Lab: Kugel Lab, FH
When: Monday, January 12, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Join us for Naomi Yamamoto’s dissertation defense!
Title: Oncofetal Proteins Drive Aggressive Disease in Basal Pancreatic Cancer
Lab: Kugel Lab, FH
When: Monday, January 12, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Avery Angell Swearer's dissertation defense!
Title: Spinal cord regeneration progresses via developmental and non-developmental mechanisms in X. tropicalis
Lab: Wills Lab, UW
When: Friday, December 12, 11 a.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom
Happening TODAY - Chase Suiter's dissertation defense!
Title: Multiplex Methods for Profiling and Programming Protein Degradation
Lab: Shendure Lab, UW (@jshendure.bsky.social )
When: Tuesday, December 9, 10 a.m. PST
Where: UW Foege Hall, Foege Auditorium (S060) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Timothy Yu’s ( @timyu.bsky.social ) dissertation defense!
Title: Epistasis and pleiotropy in viral protein evolution
Lab: Bloom Lab, FH
When: Monday, December 8, 2 p.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Avery Angell Swearer's dissertation defense!
Title: Spinal cord regeneration progresses via developmental and non-developmental mechanisms in X. tropicalis
Lab: Wills Lab, UW
When: Friday, December 12, 11 a.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom
Join us in welcoming our newest faculty member, Dr. Aakanksha Jain from the UW Immunology Department!
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Join us for Chase Suiter's dissertation defense!
Title: Multiplex Methods for Profiling and Programming Protein Degradation
Lab: Shendure Lab, UW (@jshendure.bsky.social )
When: Tuesday, December 9, 10 a.m. PST
Where: UW Foege Hall, Foege Auditorium (S060) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Timothy Yu’s (@timyu.bsky.social ) dissertation defense!
Title: Epistasis and pleiotropy in viral protein evolution
Lab: Bloom Lab, FH
When: Monday, December 8, 2 p.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Join us for Avery Angell Swearer's dissertation defense!
Title: Spinal cord regeneration progresses via developmental and non-developmental mechanisms in X. tropicalis
Lab: Wills Lab, UW
When: Friday, December 12, 11 a.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, K069 Auditorium & Zoom
Join us for Timothy Yu’s (@timyu.bsky.social ) dissertation defense!
Title: Epistasis and pleiotropy in viral protein evolution
Lab: Bloom Lab, FH
When: Monday, December 8, 2 p.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building) & Zoom (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Kathryn Powers’s dissertation defense!
Title: EBF1 Regulates Sensory Development in the Mammalian Cochlea
Lab: Bermingham-McDonogh Lab, UW
When: Friday, November 21, 1:30 p.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, T639 & Virtual (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Kathryn Powers’s dissertation defense!
Title: EBF1 Regulates Sensory Development in the Mammalian Cochlea
Lab: Bermingham-McDonogh Lab, UW
When: Friday, November 21, 1:30 p.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, T639 & Virtual (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
Happening TODAY - Darren Mallett’s dissertation defense!
Title: Uncovering the mechanisms that control unattached kinetochore clustering
Lab: Biggins Lab, FH
When: Friday, November 14, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building)
Join us for Kathryn Powers’s dissertation defense!
Title: EBF1 Regulates Sensory Development in the Mammalian Cochlea
Lab: Bermingham-McDonogh Lab, UW
When: Friday, November 21, 1:30 p.m. PST
Where: UW Health Sciences Building, T639 & Virtual (email mcb@uw.edu for link)
See you next week for Darren Mallett’s dissertation defense!
Title: Uncovering the mechanisms that control unattached kinetochore clustering
Lab: Biggins Lab, FH
When: Friday, November 14, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building)
Happening TODAY - Nick Petty’s ( @npetty.bsky.social ) defense!
Title: Replacement of microglia with hematopoietic stem cell-derived microglia-like cells in nonhuman primates & impact of CSF1R inhibitor treatment
Lab: Kiem Lab, FH
When: Wed, Nov 5, 3:30pm PST
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom
Join us for Darren Mallett’s dissertation defense!
Title: Uncovering the mechanisms that control unattached kinetochore clustering
Lab: Biggins Lab, FH
When: Friday, November 14, 10 a.m. PST
Where: Fred Hutch Pelton Auditorium (Weintraub Building)
See you next week for Nick Petty’s ( @npetty.bsky.social ) defense!
Title: Replacement of microglia with hematopoietic stem cell-derived microglia-like cells in nonhuman primates & impact of CSF1R inhibitor treatment
Lab: Kiem Lab, FH
When: Wed, Nov 5, 3:30pm PST
Where: FH Pelton Auditorium & Zoom