At 1pm on January 12, 2021, our grad student Nuo Tian will defend her master's thesis. Zoom link will be sent shortly.

At 2pm on January 28, 2021, our grad student Daniel Tyler will defend his master's thesis. Zoom link will be sent shortly.

At 11am on June 23, 2021, our grad student Dennis Tran will defend his master's thesis. Zoom link will be sent shortly.

At 2pm on November 5, 2021, our grad student Nicholas A. Wong will defend his master's thesis entitled "Stages of Early Replication and Membrane Rearrangement in Coronaviruses: The Replication Organelle." The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 2pm on April 15, 2022, our grad student Katie Jing Kay Lam will defend her master's thesis entitled "Histone-like Nucleoid Structuring (H-NS) Protein Silences the Beta-Glucoside (bgl) Utilization Operon by Formation of a DNA Loop in Escherichia coli." The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 10:30am on October 26, 2022, our grad student Peter Kopkoski will defend his master's thesis entitled "The Effects of DNA-Binding Proteins on IS Elements Insertion Upstream of the bgl Operon in Escherichia coli" The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 3 pm on March 13, 2023, our grad student Jianing Wang will defend his master's thesis entitled "Comparative Genomics of Viral Genomes and Identification of Three Novel Viroporin-like Superfamilies" The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 11 am on March 14, 2023, our grad student Aditi Dubey will defend her master's thesis entitled "Expansion of the Voltage-gated Ion Channel (VIC) Superfamily with the Neurotransmitter Receptor, Cys Loop, Ligand-gated Ion Channel (LIC) Family of Channel Receptors " The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 11 am on April 12, 2023, our grad student Kevin J. Hendargo will defend his master's thesis entitled "Detection of Sequence Similarity Among Structural Repeats in the Piezo Family of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels." The room and zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 4 pm on April 20, 2023, our grad student Harry Zhou will defend his master's thesis entitled "Characterizing the fucAO promoter and elucidating the transcriptional mechanism behind IS5-driven activation of the fucAO operon." The zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 11 am on June 1, 2023, our grad student Madison Baxter will defend her master's thesis entitled "Structural Evidence Supporting the Expansion of the Voltage-gated Ion Channel (VIC) Superfamily with Inclusion of the Ligand-gated Ion Channel (LIC) Family." The zoom link will be provided before the defense. Abstract The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB) provides […]

At 2pm on March 15, 2043, our grad student Sophia Beliaev will defend her master's thesis entitled "Expansion of the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) with the Sar TMS10 Membrane Protein (S10MP) Family." The zoom link will be provided before the defense. Abstract Transport proteins are crucial to essential cellular processes. Databases such as the Transporter […]