DrexelMCBG

Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics (MS and PhD) @DrexelMedicine
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MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬

Thursday, September 12, 2024, 1 PM

Dr. Alison J. Carey
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Pediatrics
@DrexelMedicine @DrexelMcbg

Distinct role of interferons in the neonate

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Drexel MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬

Skandha Ramakrishnan
PhD candidate @DrexelMcbg @DrexelMedicine

Advisor: Dr. Liang Oscar Qiang
@DrexelNeurobio

Functional roles of Spastin in health and disease

[Reginato Lab @LabReginato]

Drexel @DrexelMCBG @Drexelmed PhD student Riley Young @_riley_young_ presented part of her thesis research as a short talk at @CSHL August 2024 Mechanisms and Models of Cancer Conference in Cold Spring Harbor, NY

[Noguchi Laboratory @NoguchiLab2004]

The lab got a good news 😍

Well, we knew this, but finally confirmed 😉

Kalisse's PhD studies got funded by National Institute on Aging 🎉

@afrogenomics is happy, the lab is happy, and the @DrexelBiochem is happy 🥳

Kalisse Horne is starting her 3rd year @DrexelMcbg

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Jill Lawrence, PhD candidate

August 8, 2 PM
NCB Geary A
Characterizing pro-inflammatory A1-like astrocyte polarization in primary human cell models of chronic inflammation and HIV-1 Tat exposure

Mentor: Michael Nonnemacher, PhD
@DrexelMedicine

[Noguchi Laboratory @NoguchiLab2004]

Well done Havya 🤩🎉🥳

Sri Havya Jana @NoguchiLab2004 @DrexelMcbg @DrexelMedicine @Drexel_med_grad successfully defended her MS thesis studies on the role of DDX11 DNA helicase in cancer 🧬

We had a great party and wish you further success 😊

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Big Congrats to Kalisse🎉

Kalisse Horne @afrogenomics @DrexelMcbg
received Administrative Supplements to Promote Diversity from NIH-NIA🤩

She is doing her PhD studies related to the biology of aging and cancer @NoguchiLab2004 @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine @Drexel_med_grad

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Carly DeAntoneo, PhD candidate @DrexelMcbg
Drexel MCBG Program

Monday, July 22, 10:30 AM
Geary A, New College Building

Reovirus Z-RNAs Activate ZBP1 Dependent Cell Death

Mentor: Siddharth Balachandran, PhD @FoxChaseCancer

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Dorothy Benton, PhD candidate @DrexelMcbg

Tuesday, July 30, 12:00 PM
NCB Room 11101

Identifying new targets and drug combinations in Neurofibromatosis type 2

Mentor: Jonathan Chernoff, PhD @jondchernoff @FoxChaseCancer

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Karan Bamb, MS candidate @DrexelMcbg

Friday, July 19, 12 PM
NCB Room 11101

Multidrug Tolerance and the Stringent Response in Diverse Clinical Isolates of Haemophilus influenza

Mentor: Donald C. Hall, PhD and Joshua Chang Mell, PhD @DrexelMedicine

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Sarath Reghunathan, MS candidate @DrexelMcbg

Monday, July 29, 12:00 PM
NCB Room 11101

Towards In-vitro reconstitution of Actin Comet Tail Formation and Septin Caging competition of Shigella

Mentor: Shae Padrick, PhD
@DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine

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MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Priyashree Nagarajan
MS candidate @DrexelMcbg @Drexel_med_grad

Monday, July 15, 12:00 PM
NCB Room 11101

Regulation of BORG2 by Cdc42 through Disruption of Internal Structure

Shae Padrick, PhD @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine

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Thesis Defense 🧬

Tisha Kalpesh Desai
MS candidate @DrexelMcbg @Drexel_med_grad

Wednesday, June 26, 10 AM
NCB Room 11101

Investigating the role of SND1 in Glioblastoma
using RNA-Seq

Mentor: Sri Somarowthu, PhD @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine

[Reginato Lab @LabReginato]

Congratulation to🥳Dr. Emily Esquea @esqueaemily who defended her PhD thesis last week #proudpi 🏆@drexelmcbg @Drexel_med_grad @DrexelMedicine

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Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Roshni Kadam @DrexelMcbg
MS candidate

Friday, June 28, 10:30 AM
NCB Room 11101

Investigating the functional role of highly structured regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 using CRISPR/Cas-based deletion analysis

Mentor: Sri Somarowthu, PhD @DrexelBiochem

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Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬

Ranjit Kaur @DrexelMcbg
MS candidate

Thursday, June 20, 12 PM
NCB Room 11101

Interplay of Hepatitis B Virus and lncRNA FAM99A Expression and Interacting Proteins in Liver Cancer Cell Lines

Mentor: Michael Bouchard, PhD @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMedicine

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Student and alumni of @DrexelBiochem at @americanaging

Kalisse Horne @afrogenomics @NoguchiLab2004 and Jennifer Alexander @ednacukierman - they didn't overlap in @DrexelMcbg Program, but they are now connected😍
Thank you AGE2024 for a great platform expanding their networks 🥳

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Student and alumni from Chris Sell’s lab @DrexelBiochem @DrexelMcbg @DrexelMedicine received Poster Pitch Awards AGE2024 @americanaging 🥳

Congrats to Britney Black @DrexelCancerBio and Alessandro Bitto @BittoAlessandro 🎉
Also to the outstanding mentor, Dr. Christian Sell👏

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Wrapping up the AGE 2024 @americanaging at the Terrace at Memorial Union in Madison, WI 🍻🎉👏

Well done Britney Black @DrexelCancerBio Nick Guzman @DrexelBiochem Kalisse Horne and Luisa Abadia @DrexelMcbg

- from the labs of Chris Sell and Eishi Noguchi @DrexelMedicine

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Nick Guzman @DrexelBiochem student is presenting his thesis work on let-7 microRNAs at AGE 2024 @americanaging 🧬🤩🧬

Nick is working in the lab of Dr. Christian Sell @DrexelMedicine

Well done, Nick🎉