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Yun-Huan Lyu – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Boosting Segmentation Models with Radiomics Features and Comprehensive Multi-Organ Information

Date: May 5, 2025 Time: 1:30pm Location: Foege N503

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Lance De Koninck – Ph.D. General Exam

Exam Title: Ultrasound mediated microbubble cavitation for treatment and monitoring of cancer

Date: May 2, 2025 Time: 2:00pm Location: Benjamin Hall, Room E321

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Yin Guo – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: Tracking the evolution of cerebrovascular atherosclerosis with multi-contrast, multi-time point vessel wall MRI

Date: May 5, 2025 Time: 10:30am Location: SLU - C359

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Connor Krolak – Ph.D. General Exam

Exam Title: Ultrasound and Microbubbles: Modulating and Quantifying Blood Flow in Liver Cancers

Date: May 5, 2025 Time: 2:00pm Location: Benjamin Interdisciplinary Hall E321 and Zoom

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Yonghui (Kelly) Wang – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Boronate Ester-Linked Dynamic Albumin Hydrogels for CAR-T cell Homing and Restimulation

Date: May 8, 2025 Time: 12:30pm Location: Foege N403 and Zoom

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Debosmita Biswas – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Non Contrast Diffusion Weighted MRI as a supplemental tool for breast cancer screening

Date: May 8, 2025 Time: 3:00pm Location: Zoom

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Julia Bonzanini -Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Computational protein design for peptide-MHC presentation and recognition

Date: May 9, 2025 Time: 10:00am Location: Foege N303

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Abby Nagle – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: A Study of the Intracellular Molecular Forces That Regulate Cell Structure and Function

Date: May 15, 2025 Time: 1:00pm Location: Orin Smith Auditorium -SLU

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Zihan Li – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Non-Invasive Prediction of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures and Peritoneal Recurrence in Gastric Cancer Using Multimodal Multitask Deep Learning

Date: May 19, 2025 Time: 2:00pm Location: Foege N130

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Kaiyu Zhang – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: The Landscape of Brain Artery Network: Database Foundation, Graph Analysis, and Biomarker Applications

Date: May 20, 2025 Time: 12:00pm Location: Zoom

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Lucy Maynard – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: Pooled CAR-T cell screening in nonhuman primates

Date: May 21, 2025 Time: 9:30am Location: Fred Hutch: Pelton Auditorium

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Evelyn Chang – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: The Role of Reactive Astrocytes in Neuroinflammation on Axon Growth

Date: May 23, 2025 Time: 9:15 Location: Foege N503 and Zoom

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Sophia Shan – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Acute Stroke Intervention -- from a neurovascular perspective

Date: May 23, 2025 Time: 3:00pm Location: Foege N403 and Zoom

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Jacob Dairaghi – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: Establishment and Characterization of Confined Endothelial Cell Migration within Lung Recellularization Model

Date: May 27, 2025 Time: 11:00am Location: SLU Brotman N409B

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Jasmine Zhou – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: Targeted electrical and optogenetic stimulation for neuroprotection and neuroplasticity

Date: May 27, 2025 Time: 3:00pm Location: Foege N130 and Zoom

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Taylor Billings – M.S. Final Exam

Exam Title: Impact of pathologic cardiac hypertrophy on the regulation of the mitochondrial RNase P splicing complex

Date: May 28, 2025 Time: 10:00am Location: Foege N130 and Zoom

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Shu-Yi Yeh – M.S. Final Exam

Exam Title: Machine Learning Framework for Early Prediction of Ventricular Tachycardia Using Single-Lead Electrocardiogram Signals

Date: May 28, 2025 Time: 12:00pm Location: Foege N403

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Dorice Goune – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Exam Title: 3D characterization of Human liver for accurate bioprinting. From Microscopy to Computational Models

Date: May 29, 2025 Time: 9:30am Location: Foege N230 and Zoom

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Nicole Gregorio – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: Engineered Proteins as Building Blocks for Responsive Biomaterials

Date: May 29, 2025 Time: 11:30am Location: Allen Auditorium, Allen Library and Zoom

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Karam Khateeb – Ph.D. Final Exam

Exam Title: Engaging multiple mechanisms of plasticity to drive functional recovery after neural injury

Date: May 30, 2025 Time: 1:00pm Location: Foege N130 and zoom